Re: [orca-list] orca not speaking after screen is locked

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi John:

> OK, thanks for that -- I do everything in emacs -- including Email and
> usenet, so this is a real bummer.  So is there any way in the world to
> get text from a regular console into gnome, so I can use firefox
> rather than a text browser?

I'm assuming you're an emacspeak user?  If so, there is some level of 
functionality for Orca to use emacspeak for its speech output.  It's 
been a long time since I tried it, though, so it might be broken.

> And if you know, what would emacs have to do to itself to make it work
> with orca -- it is compiled with gtk and I thought this would make
> things speak.

While the menus and such are probably accessible, I'd guess that the 
main text area of emacs is probably inaccessible and it would take a 
fair amount of work inside the guts of emacs to make it accessible.  As 
an alternative, you *might* try running emacs inside a gnome-terminal 
by unsetting the DISPLAY environment variable before running it.  But, 
if you're an emacspeak user, this probably won't be satisfactory.

> I did want xterm because of VT220 emulation -- is there another
> alternative for that?

gnome-terminal provides some level of emulation, but I don't know how 
much you need.

Will

> on Monday 05/05/2008 Willie Walker(William Walker Sun COM) wrote
> > Hi John:
> >
> > xterm doesn't participate in the AT-SPI infrastructure, and emacs 
> > really
> > doesn't, either.  So, you're not going to get good accessibility with
> > them.
> >
> > gnome-terminal, however, provides a decent terminal that is 
> > accessible.
> >    Depending upon your needs, you might also try gedit for text 
> > editing.
> >   If you're an emacs power-user, though, gedit probably won't cut it.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > John covici wrote:
> > > OK, I will check that bug, other apps which I have found so far not
> > > working are emacs and xterm -- do you know the status of either of
> > > those?
> > >
> > > on Monday 05/05/2008 Willie Walker(William Walker Sun COM) wrote
> > > > Hi John:
> > > >
> > > > There is a long standing bug with the screen saver:
> > > >
> > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350716
> > > >
> > > > If you add comments to the bug, we might get some renewed interest 
> > > > in it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
> > > > John covici wrote:
> > > > > Hi.  If I have the preferences set to lock the computer when the
> > > > > screen saver comes on, Orca will not speak what appears to be a
> > > > > password dialogue -- is there any way to get this working?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
>
> --
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> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici
>          covici ccs covici com