Re: [orca-list] lots of things working great with the April 1St daily build

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

HAHA,
But my news was not April Fool.
It really works!
:)
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 02/04/12 00:17, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I propose we get rid of this guess work and trial/error, and just make 
> the thing come up talking, in Unity2d.  Let's have Orca come up 
> talking and brailling, but with a black screen!  We can make an 
> "accessible startup", for the sighted to use, but, let's have an 
> obscure, barely-memorible set of keystrokes be required in order to 
> get this startup.  Let's change the sequence with each release, and be 
> sure to break "accessibility" during the Beta cycle.  We can leak
>  trial-and-error based partial solutions to the various mailing lists, 
> used by the sighted.
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> April Fools,
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> Dave
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> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Justin Harford wrote:
>
> > Possibly a redundant request, but will this information be available 
> > on a blog or wiki so that when we go to install it ourselves, we can 
> > read about what to expect and what to do to make things work?
> >
> > It would be cool even if the below email were just copied on to a 
> > wiki under "installing 12.04 with speech" or something.
> >
> > Regards
> > Justin Harford
> > On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/04/12 22:47, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > That's great news re:  the 01-April daily build of Ubuntu 12.04.  
> > > > How do you get Unity 2D as your desktop?  Do you run this as a 
> > > > flash drive installation?  Do you do the install in 3d, then change 
> > > > it after login?
> > > I have the trouble coming my way only first time.
> > >
> > > Basically, I have it on my pen drive but soon to be installed on my 
> > > netbook.
> > > Actually when I booted the pen drive for the first time, I waited 
> > > for the drums to sound which they did.
> > > Then I pressed ctrl + s for the speech.
> > > I waited for the desktop to come after I selected try Ubuntu.
> > > As you might be aware you got to press tab once after the first 
> > > screen on live boot comes up.
> > > But then the trouble started.
> > > I had to do some guess work and after I was sure that the desktop 
> > > had come up, I pressed alt + f2 and typed orca.
> > > sure enough, Orca started.
> > > But mind you we get the unity 3d desktop by default.
> > > So naturally menus and all won't speak.
> > > Yet, I pressed alt +f10 and got orca to read the menus.
> > > But if you don't get the same result, just press the super key and 
> > > type log and press down arrow 2 times.
> > > Hit enter.
> > > Now you logout
> > > Again the drums will sound and Orca will speak.
> > > Press the tab key once and hit enter.
> > > you will get the choices for the session login.
> > > Press shift + tab and you will hear Orca say "unity 2d"
> > > press enter and come back to the username entry field.
> > > Type ubuntu for the username and hit enter.
> > > now just press enter for password.
> > > Wait for 5 or 10 seconds and just start orca using the alt + f2 method.
> > > This time sure enough. orca will speak all as I had mentioned in my 
> > > previous email.
> > > Happy hacking.
> > > Krishnakant.
> > >
> > >
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