Re: [orca-list] Orca and Fedora sound system

From: "Cearbhall O'Meadhra" <omeadhrac ncad ie>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Fedora sound system
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:26:31 +0100

I am running fedora 11 with Orca and I would like to manage system sounds
and some audio applications such as web-based radio programmes. I would need
to be able to switch between the PC speakers and my Plantronics cs60 headset
to do this. I read in the Fedora forum that Pulse Audio is now configured to
work well with the Volume control. I went into PA volume control but could
not find any usable tools. 

My question is:
1. Does Orca read the PA volume Control? I suspect that this might have more
functionality for a sighted user since I cannot detect how to take advantage
of it. I can detect the Speaker system and the Plantronics options. I can
see that these have to be checked but cannot see what that does for them. In
addition, I can only detect the sliders for the channels and not much else.
2. Can I assign key linkages to Orca to swap between different speech
engines? I have Cepstral Callie installed and I would like to use that voice
to read documents but it is not good or navigation for which I would be
happy to use ESpeak.


All the best,
 
Cearbhall 
 

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Today's Topics:

   1.  Using an alternative editor for a text area of a form    with
      Firefox (Dominique Asselineau)
   2.  A fact about orca and my netbook that others may find
      useful! (Jennifer)
   3. Re:  Using an alternative editor for a text area of a form
      with Firefox (Jason White)
   4.  orca and clickable links (Aruni Sharma)
   5. Re:  A fact about orca and my netbook that others may find
      useful! (Paul Hunt)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:17:39 +0200
From: Dominique Asselineau <asseline telecom-paristech fr>
To: Orca List <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: [orca-list] Using an alternative editor for a text area of a
        form    with Firefox
Message-ID: <20090903181739 GA15588 telecom-paristech fr>
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Hello

We try to use an alternative editor (Emacs) to edit a text area in a web
form using Firefox+Orca.

We tried these plugins

EmbeddedEditor
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5482

It's All Text!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

They run fine but we do not find way that Orca runs with.

Thanks.

Dominique

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:47:35 +0100
From: "Jennifer" <fluffy_bunny_1988 hotmail co uk>
To: <Orca-list gnome org>
Subject: [orca-list] A fact about orca and my netbook that others may
        find    useful!
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Hi. I tried to get a pacmate display working with Orca and/or braille TTY
(in the terminal). It wouldn't work in either and when I typed sudo brltty
in the terminal I got the message "screen not in text mode". Then the speech
crashed and I re-started Orca. The braille display started working and
continued doing so, even after the speech crashed. This is going to be very
useful for me I think in at least gaining a bit more use from my netbook.

Also does any one know what the "screen not in text mode" message means, and
could braille in Orca not have been working because BRLTTY was not running
undo sudo automatically?

Thanks
Jen!


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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:49:48 +1000
From: Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Using an alternative editor for a text area
        of a form with Firefox
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Dominique Asselineau <asseline telecom-paristech fr> wrote:

We tried these plugins

EmbeddedEditor
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5482

It's All Text!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

They run fine but we do not find way that Orca runs with.


That's a very vague report. What happens, exactly, and what problems (in
detail) did you encounter?



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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:55:36 +0530
From: Aruni Sharma <aruni100 gmail com>
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] orca and clickable links
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Hello, Is there any work going on for making orca access the clickable links
in ff? There are many sites which use these links extensively. 
Orca just says "text" for all such links not allowing to click them.
Thanks,

Aruni.
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:30:39 +0100
From: Paul Hunt <huntp ukonline co uk>
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] A fact about orca and my netbook that others
        may find        useful!
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Jennifer,

Are you using Ubuntu?

The brltty service isn't started automatically on Ubuntu.  That's why you
had to run it manually.

To have it started automatically you need to edit the file
/etc/default/brltty and change the line that says RUN_BRLTTY=no to
RUN_BRLTTY=yes.

brltty on its own can't provide braille output in graphics mode, even in
gnome-terminal, it needs Orca to tell it what to display.  So if brltty is
running but Orca isn't configured for braille then the "screen not in text
mode" message will be all you get.

brltty can work on its own in the text consoles though.  Pressing 
ctrl+alt+F1 through F6 will get you to a text console where you can use
brltty without Orca.  ctrl+alt+F7 will get you back to graphics mode
(gnome).

HTH
Paul


On 04/09/09 00:47, Jennifer wrote:

Hi. I tried to get a pacmate display working with Orca and/or braille 
TTY (in the terminal). It wouldn't work in either and when I typed 
sudo brltty in the terminal I got the message "screen not in text 
mode". Then the speech crashed and I re-started Orca. The braille 
display started working and continued doing so, even after the speech 
crashed. This is going to be very useful for me I think in at least 
gaining a bit more use from my netbook.
Also does any one know what the "screen not in text mode" message 
means, and could braille in Orca not have been working because BRLTTY 
was not running undo sudo automatically?
Thanks
Jen!


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