Re: [orca-list] XFCE and orca

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I am also using xfce on one of my machines and I have got a lot of apps 
working in there.
So let's assume you have got pure text based arch linux installed and 
you would like to get xfce installed and try to make it accessible.
Here is what I would suggest:
- install xfce4 and xfce4-goodies groups of packages.
- If you have no ~/.xinitrc file then copy the default one into your 
home directory
cp /etc/skel/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
- edit ~/.xinitrc with your favorite text editor. Make sure the line
exec startxfce4
is there and is not commented out.
Before this line add another line saying
export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
- Install orca what will also install speech-dispatcher and other 
dependencies.
- Now either change speech-dispatcher configuration so it will use alsa 
as its output module or install pulseaudio.
You can edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
- At this point you should be able to start xfce by executing startx . 
As it starts up you will be greeted by the pannel configuration which is 
not accessible. You can escape or alt+f4 out of it and then press alt+f2 
to run xfce4 app finder and type in orca to launch it.
- If orca starts first thing you should do is that you will press alt+f1 
to inwoke the popup menu, choose applications -> settings -> 
accessibility and enable screen reader checkbox.

I haven't installed gdm in order to get accessible login screen because 
it installs a lot of gnome dependencies. Instead I have installed SLiM 
and set it to autologin. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM#Autologin

In order to make the experience better I have installed the following 
gnome and lxde packages:
polkit-gnome, evince, file-roller, pcman-fm.
QT4 apps can also be made accessible while running xfce4 you have to 
instal qt-at-spi from AUR and restart the machine in order to get it 
working.

xfce4-terminal is accessible, it has even keyboard shortcut for select all.
Mousepad what is xfce text editor is working verry well too.
For playing multimedia you can install vlc, totem or DeaDBeeF for music. 
DeaDBeeF is just partially accessible but it's avesome.

Firefox, Thunderbird and libre-office are all working verry well.
In the alt+F1 menu -> settings -> prefered applications I have changed 
default filemanager from thunar to pcman-fm.

Hopefully this is usefull

Greetings

Peter
On 19.06.2013 15:04, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I'm sure ou can use LO, Firefox, and other popular titles with XFCE 
> and LXDE.  There's a version of Sonar with LXDE.  The panel is 
> inaccessible, but the menus and configurators seem to work with orca.  
> I know you're not a Ubuntu user, but Jonathan's Sonar LXDE can show 
> you how it's done.  I think it's a matter of setting a couple of 
> environment variables and/or configuration switches to get LXDE talking?
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