Hi Alexis:
Ubuntu Karmic has all the latest GNOME bits, including the fix in Orca for accented letters. That would be the most expedient way to get the fix.
For the keyboard problem, which keys are not functioning? Is it the keypad? If so, that's because Orca's desktop keyboard layout takes over the keypad for flat review:
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/orca-desktop-keys.html.en
Hope this helps!
Will
Alexis Mignon wrote:
Hi Will,2009/9/11 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com <mailto:William Walker sun com>>
Unless there are packages available for Ubuntu, I fear there will be no way to make the tests. I could do it if it was my own computer but it is not. Do you know what will be the version of Gnome coming with the next Ubuntu release ? Is there any workaround for the accent problem ? Is it a general Gnome problem or just in orca ?
There is another bug we have noticed. Sometimes (we've not found in what precise circumstances), a part of the keyboard becomes inactive and the problem disappears when Orca is shut down. It happened several times during our tests.
Regards
Alexis
<mailto:William Walker sun com> <mailto:William Walker sun com
Hi Alexis:
Thanks! Unfortunately, GNOME 2.26 development is over and we'll
need to live with the bug in GNOME 2.26. The good news, however, is
that this should be fixed for GNOME 2.28. If you're able to
build/test with the latest GNOME sources (GNOME 2.27.92 is now
available), it would be great if you could verify that the fix we
made fixes the problem you're experiencing.
Will
Alexis Mignon wrote:
I confirm that the version of orca is the 2.26.1
2009/9/10 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com<mailto:Orca-list gnome org <mailto:Orca-list gnome org>>
<mailto:William Walker sun com>>>
Hi Alexis:
Which version of orca are you using? You can determine this by
running the following command:
orca --version
The reason I ask is that we did some work for accented characters
for the upcoming GNOME 2.28 release.
Will
Alexis Mignon wrote:
Hello,
We are french and we're trying to setup a computer for a
blind
person and we have some difficulties.
The computer is running a Ubuntu Jaunty. We've installed the
mbrola voices.
The tests have been made with openoffice and were reproduced
using gedit. Some accented characters are pronounced
correctly
(é,ç), others are not (à,ù,è). We've tried to set the
pronounciation of the letters in the pronounciation tab, e.g.
'à' -> 'a'.
It seemed to work for the letter 'à' when we put the
cursor at
the begining of the line but not when we use the shortcut
'KP_Add'. In the first case its pronounced as we set in
the tabn
in the second case its not pronounced at all. It never worked
for letter 'è'...
I first thought of an encoding problem but it doesnt
explain why
it works for some letters and doesn't work for some others...
We have another problem but which is not directly related to
Orca. But maybe someone had to deal with it.
The speech-dispatcher deamon doesn't work properly the first
time it's started (at boot time). From the logs, everything
seems ok until the first time orca tries to connect to it.
We have the message saying that sd is litening to the
usual port
and then a message sying "Broken pipe" (I'm sorry for not
being
able to show the logs but the computer is not mine and the
friend who has it doesnt speak english). Then there seems
to be
an error message each time Orca tries to connect to it saying
that no module could be found and not even the dummy one
worked.
When we simply restart the sd deamon, it works fine after...
Thanks by advice for any solution or hint.
Regards,
Alexis
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