Re: [orca-list] Orca and Ubuntu 9.04

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

Hello, while this is a bit off topic, I have found a way around the
problem regarding the installer.

The speech with espeak and orca on the 9.04 installer behaves veard some
times (I only faced this problem once and found the hack).

If you have started the cd love and then ran orca, it will work connect
in most cases.  If you started the installer directly with the
accessibility options turned on then just quit the installer and you
will be put on the desktop.  Now quit orca either kill or just insert q.
Then logout and log back in again and start orca.

I have herd a few of my friends facing the same problem.  About 50
participants in my regular workshops in India used the installer with
orca and did report me this problem.  They used the method which I have
described and all things work properly.

happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
 

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 07:08 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> 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
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