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Yeah, I don't think Samba will come in
handy in this situation. Samba's good for files and printer
sharing but not an input/output device. Essentially, your typical
braille display is a keyboard and monitor contained in the same
peripheral device.
Alex M On 11/29/2012 7:47 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote: True, but how is this related to using a braille display in both Windows and Linux? I assume he's asking about using it as a refreshible braille display with his screen reader in each OS. I apologize if I misunderstood the original question or missed the connection here. On 29/11/12 15:54, Jude DaShiell wrote:It's possible to send things from linux to windows using samba and get things from windows into linux with samba too since samba is a Linux program. On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Christopher Chaltain wrote:I could be wrong, but I don't think it will work from both Linux and Windows simultaneously. In other words, only one of your OS's can have access to the HW at any one time. On 29/11/12 11:59, John J. Boyer wrote:Sounds good. My Braille Note mPower has a serial port for the Braille display and will be connected to com1. This should work in both Linux and Windows, right? Thanks, John On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:47:00PM -0200, Jos? Vilmar Est?cio de Souza wrote:Hi. Assuming that the braille display is connected via USB, you'll need to configure virtualbox to recognize the USBs peripheral. I for example, can connect my iPhone in my ubuntu machine, run windows xp in virtualbox and use iTunes to synchronize my iPhone. On 11/29/2012 12:24 PM, Alex Midence wrote:Hi, John, I don't use quite the same setup you have in mind but one that is akin to it. I use windows xp with ubuntu 12.04 in a virtual machine. I have never been able to get braille to work inside the virtual machine for me. I don't know if that will be the same for you but, I thought you might want to know that this was a possibility. Linux should work fine because the hardware is communicating directly witht he OS but, I'm worried that Windows will be problematic for you since I personally haven't had any success in getting my braille display to work with the virtual operating system. For me, this is an annoyance as I use speech but, for you, it could prove considerably more inconvenient that that. Now, having said all that, I use vmware not virtualbox so, it could be a quirk of Vmware I'm running into. Also, mine is a Focus 80 braille display so, that might be a factor as well. My advice to you is to have a sighted person standing by just in case when you test it out for the first time. Best regards, Alex M On 11/29/12, John J. Boyer <john boyer abilitiessoft com> wrote:We are currently using Windows 7 for office work. I am thinking of installing Ubuntu 12.04.1 as the base system and running Windows 7 in virtualbox. I do need to keep Windows for testing software and for occasional use. I will be using a Braille display, since I am deaf as well as blind. Specifically, it is the Braille Note mPower. The Windows screenreader will be Jaws. I've heard that it works in a VM. My business manager does most of the office work, but I must be able to see what he is doing. We also use the machine for communication. Thanks, John On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:51:12PM +0100, Peter V???gner wrote:Hello, Unfortunatelly this does not answer the original question however I must add it as I do like the idea. I have recently installed arch using the jully talking arch which works well. There were some little things I had to deal with until it started fully working like I wanted it to however what I like about arch is that they have nice wiki with a lot of perfectly written articles. While following their install and beginner guides you can learn how the distro works so you will then get prapared for some real maintenance. With ubuntu it is still quicker to reinstall once something breaks up and I hope with arch power users can become just a bit more powerfull by knowig some more details. The only thing which does not work for me in my arch install is accessible login screen. It uses gdm and I dont know how to launch orca and set all the appropriate accessibility related properties while gdm session starts. Greetings Peter On 29.11.2012 07:55, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:Debian sid has GNOME Desktop with cinnemon which is like GNOME 2 and is accessible. MATE is just like GNOME 2 but uses mate applications which are inaccessible. Debian Sid has latest GNOME 3 point something which just came out which makes GNOME 3 just likr GNOME 2 but only much better. Ubuntu doesn't have it. With Debian Sid you always have the latest packages and it rolls instead of being released. Debian's problems are you have to add multimedia and non-free repositories to it. Also Debian will not allow Firefox or Thunderbird because the icons are copyrighted. Also Debian used Desktop packages as does Ubuntu so if you wanted to remove mate-terminal and put in gnome-terminal which talks, the package system says it has to remove the rest of GNOME. Really stupid. Easiest thing to do is install Debian MINT, edit /etc/apt/sources file and paste in Debian sources and put # in front of the Debian MINT sources. You can use smxi to do updates. Unfortunately you have to edit that script file and comment out the section that mentions Debian MINT because smxi thinks it will not work. Debian is much easier to use than Ubuntu if you do a bit of work.. Also you need to know what drivers you nerd for wifi but once you know the name it is done for you. Debian could use jockey-gtk but that darned FREE software policy does not allow that. If Ubuntu goes back to a recular desktop, all will be well. If someone made a working command line iso file of ARCH linux that talks I would go with that as it has the very new GNOME that one again talks even though it is designed for touch screen which is a seeing thing. I would install ARCH in a heartbeat but I have tried three three times to install but I cannot do it, it is like the instructions are missing. But even with Ubuntu going touch screen and MATE which is a 2.0 like desktop, all that insanity is still better than Windows. David On Nov 28, 2012 7:53 PM, "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain gmail com <mailto:chaltain gmail com>> wrote: Why wouldn't you consider Ubuntu? I think Ubuntu 12.04 LTS would be close to what you're looking for. On 28/11/12 18:48, John J. Boyer wrote: > I am thinking of switching from Windows to Linux for ofgice work. So I > want to avoid the bleeding edge, but I do want reasonably up-to-date > accessibility features and desktop. I'll be using LibreOffice. What > would be a good compromise between Ubuntu and CentOS? > > Thanks, > John > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:23:07PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote: >> Hello John, >> >> >> On 11/28/12, John J. Boyer <john boyer abilitiessoft com <mailto:john boyer abilitiessoft com>> wrote: >>> >>> My question is whether anyone has had experience with Orca on CentOS >>> 6.3. >> >> Well, is there something specific you want to know? About the only >> thing I can tell you is because CentOS is largely using Enterprise >> packages like Red Hat Enterprise the accessibility stack is extremely >> old. From what I can tell CentOS 6.3 is still using Gnome 2.x and >> at-spi 1.x, and they are way behind in terms of modern Orca >> dependencies etc. This isn't unusual for Enterprise Linux as every >> Enterprise system I've seen over the last couple of years is way >> behind in terms of VI access packages where distributions like Ubuntu >> try to stay on the bleeding edge of things. >> >> Cheers! >> _______________________________________________ >> orca-list mailing list >> orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list >> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. >> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html >> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions >> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org >> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp-- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp --
Alex Midence
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