ChromeVox didn't work with Chromium packaged for Debian flavors of OS because it was compiled with an option that prohibited ChromeVox from working. I can't recall the name of the option though. This wasn't true for non-Debian flavors of Chromium, which is why you'll see Arch users talking about Chromium and ChromeVox. I'm not sure if this has changed in the Devian family of distributions recently.
On 12/01/2014 10:58 AM, B. Henry wrote:
_______________________________________________It may or may not now, as for most people speech-dispatcher is experiencing showstopper problems when called by chrome.
It may or may not be possible to use a google-tts now.
I did use chromium for a while to compare to chrome, but this was probably a year ago.
As I hear varied reports re the speech-dispatcher usability with chrome these days I do not want to say anything definitive, and honestly found no
reason to choose chromium over chrome/my foil hat will protect me from Google just fine.
I will say I have no reason to suspect that chromium will work well with speech-dispatcher as there was always a difference in functionality between the
two browser flavors, and chromium tended to have more problems and for example did not see all the espeak variants, only one's default voice when I used
it.
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B.H.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:15:43AM -0500, Daniel Barich wrote:
I thought chromevox didn't work with chromium but only with chrome.
That was my experience.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:13 AM, B. Henry <[1]burt1iband gmail com>
wrote:
There are many accessible applications.
Look for interfaces that use GTK2 or 3. Webkit and many qt
applications are also accessible.
Thunderbird is excellent, but as with firefox when you have a
realase that works fine for you keep a backup copy for it as well as
the gnome support
package for it and any language packs, etc as once in a while a
version comes out with some major accessibility bugs. I'm currently
using thunderbird 35
something or another, one of the last tb35 nightly builds.
I started using TB nightly builds because of a major accessibility
bug in the stable release. I am not sure whether the bug has been
fixed in 31 stable
latest build or not. It should certainly be fixed in the alpha and
likely beta releases. I think it was 33 when I first found orca
accurately reporting
the same message in the message lists as was actually in focus.
For media players there are many accessible options.
There is a GUI interface to mplayer that is pretty nice and is fine
from an accessibility stand point. Totem, called videos in Ubuntu
and other releases
is accessible, but I do not like the current interface myself, and
as with so much of gnome and gnome apps functrionality has been
sacreficed to conform
to an asthetic. I still keep it around as for simple playback it's
still fine. Up and down arrows control volume, and you can advance
and go back
through a track with left and right arrows.
If I had to pick one media player however it'd be VLC.
Pidgin is the best GUI chat/IM client by far in my opinion both for
its good accessibility and flexibility. There are many plug-ins for
pidgin, quite a
few come by default. If not already on the image you installed you
can install the pidgin-plugin-pack for Ubuntu which has quite a few
other popular
plug-ins.
It does not work for twitter. Get corebird for a GUI twitter client,
but it's not near;ly as flexible as the commandline twitter app
ttytter.
Skype is accessible, but requires the installation of the 32bit
qt-at-spi package for 64 bit systems along with the normal qt-at-spi
for that
archetecture.
For SIP VOIP linphone is very good.
Most people use firefox, and as of august I think it was orca now
works very well with it. Make sure to upgrade to orca 3.14 or a
development build to
get the good firefox support. I also recommend installing
google-chrome or perhaps chromium with the chromvox extension. They
do not read webpages with
orca, but chromevox now works very well and can get at some content
where firefox and orca have trouble, e.g. I need to use chrome to
push a couple of
buttons on a banking site.
Mangler is a good ventrilo client, mumble is another voice chat
option that is open-source and in Ubuntu repos, and you can download
the teamtalk
package from their website for more voice chat.
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B.H.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 08:24:04PM -0600, Edgar Lozano wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been reading quite a bit of documentation about using Gnome, and
> yesterday, I decided to take the plunge into a relatively simple
Linux
> distribution, Ubuntu. I had an old Laptop that I wasn't using, and
> decided that it would be perfect as a dedicated Linux machine. In the
> past, I've done remote Linux administration, and even programmed some
> utilities to run on Debian and Arch systems. anyway, I've never
really
> been exposed to desktop environments, and was wondering what software
> you guys would recommend I use for e-mail, music playback, web
> browsers, chatting clients, etc. Obviously, I would like it if they
> were accessible with ORCA. I would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
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and
> check us out.
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Olin Library
Kenyon College
740-504-4935
References
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2. http://www.realrandomradio.com/
3. mailto:orca-list gnome org
4. https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
5. http://live.gnome.org/Orca
6. http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
7. http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
8. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
9. 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
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orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
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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