Re: [orca-list] Orca and Ubuntu 9.04

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Cearbhall:

Nice to see you on the Orca list!  It was also a pleasure meeting you in 
Bray.

> I finally managed to install Ubuntu using the automatic install with sighted
> guidance from my very obliging children. This was the first disappointment.
> I had hoped that Ubuntu could have been installed by a blind person without
> sighted assistance. It would be nice to install the system in a totally
> non-visual way.

I believe the source of all the problems you have experienced is the 
result of poor eSpeak integration on Ubuntu.

To be more specific, I suspect the biggest problem is most likely the 
integration of PulseAudio in Ubuntu.  This seems to have caused speech 
to fail miserably, which then makes everything else look really really 
bad.  Another problem might be a mismatch between the PortAudio 
libraries and PulseAudio, but I'm not sure.  In any case, these are more 
of Ubuntu audio integration issues than Orca issues, and I believe they 
might be tracked here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/portaudio19/+bug/354522

You might also have more success discussing Ubuntu-specific issues on 
the Ubuntu list: 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Hope this helps!

Will