Hello,
What is "TB?
Orca version is 3.4.2
I'm running Vinux 4.something, not sure how to find the rest of
the info without entering into the console window and shutting
down my computer.
I'll post it in a second.
Thanks,
On 07/21/2014 01:21 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
Hi.
What version of TB and what version of orca?
Thanks.
On 07/21/2014 03:31 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
Hello,
Sorry, but I keep finding little things that I don't like! LOL
Is there any way to have webpages read in a row, rather than as
shown?
So for example,
link home, link about us
is not what I want
link home,
link about us
is what I want.
Something really trippy just happened, I was arrowing through my
inbox
in Thunderbird and a new message that just came in has taken the
subject
of one of the test messages I sent myself 2 hours ago. The
message in
question is like 5 messages under the offending message and when
I open
up this userper, it says the subject is something completely
different.
Does anyone know what is going on?
thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com>
On 07/21/2014 08:48 AM, B. Henry wrote:
Brandon,
Check the option in orca preferences in the voice tab that
says something like speak multicase strings as words. It's
either the last option before apply, or close to it.
I just saw that you are using voxin, so there may well be some
things going on with how strings that contain mixed
characters, i.e. numbers and letters are pronounced that can't
be controled with Orca. I don't have this synth installed
anywhere at the moment and don't remember how it reacts. YOu
can look in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ibmtts.conf to see
if there's anything you can adjust that will help you. You may
also have a speechdispatcher directory in your home folder,
maybe ~/.local/share/speech-dispatcher, but for me it's
~/.config/speech-dispatcher. IIIIIIf you have the directory in
your home folder you should probably work with that copy of
the ibmtts.conf file as it will override whatever is in /etc.
Ido not understand why you can't save your files with gedit.
This is not normal. Try tabbing around and seeing how
everything looks.
There is some lag with thunderbird, especially for some
message types. YOu can try changing how the start reading
automatically option is set in the thunderbird tab of orca
prefs for thunderbird. Remember that orcakey control insert
gives you the prefs for a specific ap. Apply, and then hit OK.
If it is checked,, default I think, try unsetting it and
after saving, reopen the ap specific prefs and reset it. I
don't know why, but even using latest orca thhis still makes a
difference for some settings for me.
I think the saying of capital is also a voxin thing. Look in
the speech-dispatcher file I mentioned above for anything
related to this.
OK, I see it, maybe nothing for the string thing, so hopefully
the orca setting will help, but look at the substitution
rules and change the lines that say for example,
IbmttsKeySubstitution "en" "N" "capital N "
deleting the capital in each letter's line. Probably just
putting a # character at the beginning of each of those lines
will have the same effect as like in most scripts and
configuratin files the numbersign means the line is a comment
and
that it is not to be read by the program, or if the file is
the program that it is not to be used.
YOu need to look at all of your options in both thunderbird
prefferences and account settings. Remember that some have
options with in options, so you will have to arrow down in a
2nd column as well to see them all, sorry, no tim e to give
specific examples.
Somewhere in these is the option to enable spell checking.
It's probably in composition, but can't remember whether this
is in prefferences for sure, it may be in the account
settings, i.e. can be set differently for each mail or other
account. Anyway, once enabled you will be shown your mispelled
words when you go to send a message. You can also check a
box somewhere, probably in the same line as the automaticly
spell check setting that says something about showing
mispelled words while they are being written.
There are many settings that you may wish to customize, so I
seriously recommend going through ALL the available options
in both the menus I mentined, accounts and prefs. There's also
an option intools I think that will let you check a message
if it's not configured to do so by default. I have a reason
that I don't want to start thunderbird right now+I"m short on
time so can't check this for you right now.
Your wording is unclear regarding firefox bookmarks, but you
can do some things from the contextual menu, i.e. when on the
bookmark in question you press the menukey or shift f10 and
arrow up and down. YOu can't do everything from there, and
it's recommended to open the manager, especially if you have
more than one change to apply. YOu may be confused a bit by
how the tree structure is navigated there, at least I have at
times. I know intuitively now how to do what I need to do
almost always, but with out opening it and taking detailed
notes can't explain it clearly with confidence, and again, I'm
short on time and that would take a while. Just remember that
you will need to use both tabbing and arrowing to get at
everything. Sometimes you will see folders, and other times
there contents, but everything is certainly displayable when
you use the manager.
As for your username, my first response is, "Wow!", someone
spacier than I...lol.
You should see your user name unless you've changed how your
prompt is displayed, at least in most distros, when you open
a terminal emulator in the GUI, like spacy-user [my-computer
/some-directory]$
punctuation can vary as will spacing between distros, and you
will likely see a ~ character when you open the terminal
or console as this stands for your home-directory.
If for some odd reason the username is not shown in your
prompt then you can open /etc/shadow and look for it. There
will
be a list of "users", most of which will be program names. It
usually starts with root, thin bin, and maybe daemon next.
Everything will be a service or program except for usernames.
In /etc/group you will find a somewhat longer list and down
toards the bottom in most cases you will have the username
also with a number beside it of 1000 or a bit higher in most
cases unless you've done something non-standard which I doubt
or you'd not be asking these questions.
The other file you may look at to change how things are spoken
is the speech.conf file in the speech-dispatcher irectory.
Make backup copies of any of the configuration files before
you make any changes in case you break something, or the
change doesn't have the desired effect. Just copy it back in
to place with the original name if your changes don't work as
desired. Remember you'll probably need to restart
screenreaders to hear changes.
Got to run, so hope I touched on all the important points.
If you have more questions, please tell us your orca version,
what distro/release you are using, and although in this case
it should not matter, your cpu and how much ram you have for
good measure. Again that last one won't matter for the type
of thing you are asking about, but it's just good form as for
other questions it may matter.
I'm wondering if you don't have permission to change your any
files, even in your home folder as you appear to have things
set up to auto log-in. Usually you need to enter a password to
modify files or add/delete them at some point, so if this
is not done at log-in it may be asked for when you go to save
those files that don't seem to be being saved. I don't get
why you don't hear a notification and or see the dialog where
you fill in username , and password, or at least the PW.
It's usually not a good idea to auto log-in as you'll need to
enter the info at sometime anyway, and sometimes I've heard
of other complications&or bugs that occur when things are
set to auto log-in.
Maybe fixing those capital letter pronunciation lines will
help all of your pronunciation issues with words being
spelled.
If you are still having issues there maybe someone who uses
the ibmtts can help as I'm probably not going to be installing
those voices soon/do need the Spanish one sometimes though,
but am avoiding it for the moment as last I checked the
speechdispatcher version required is not up to date and
complications were common for many users.
Regards,
--
B.H.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:15:44AM -0700, Brandon Keith Biggs
wrote:
On 07/21/2014 04:40 AM, Brandon
Keith Biggs wrote:
Hello,
One more question:
Sometimes in an app like firefox or the help, Orca
will stop
responding to the up and down arrows.
How do I refresh orca so that it will work again? It
works if I hit
> tab or alt tab, but changing the focus doesn't
work and neither does
loading a new page.
thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs
On 07/21/2014 04:28 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
Hello,
Some really newbie questions:
1. How do I make Orca say a word rather than spelling
it when
incountering a string like "test1"?
2. How can I keep Orca from saying "capital o" or
"backspace o" when
pressing shift or backspace?
3. What is the best way to navigate through
thunderbird? In windows
I just press enter on my messages and it reads all
super fast, but
here it seems to lag a lot when I do that. Hitting f6
works, but
does not do a "read all" function when I jump into the
message pane.
How can I most quickly read my messages?
4. Where is spell-check in Thunderbird located?
5. How do I save in Gedit? When I press ctrl+s Orca
says "capital s"
and jumps me into the save window. I type in a
document name like
"test1" then hit enter. Nothing happens. I then type:
"test1.txt"
and hit enter. The only thing that seemed to work is
"/test1" and
now I can't find it in my home dir.
6. How do I see the username of my computer? When
trying to log into
the console I'm asked for my user name, but I don't
remember it...
7. I'm using the elaquence synth and when arrowing
through letters I
often hear lowd pops. Is there any way to keep this
from happening?
8. Is there any way to hear the function name rather
than the keys
when I do something like ctrl s or ctrl r in an app? I
know what I'm
pressing, but don't always know what function I'm
calling.
9. I can't seem to find a "read all" function, what is
the key
command for read all?
10. Is there any way to add or remove folders in the
bookmark menu
in firefox without going into the bookmarks manager? I
tried going
into the bookmarks manager, adding a folder and
looking at the
folder in the menu, but even though the folder was
named in the
manager, it still showed "unnamed" in the bookmarks
menu.
Thank you,
Brandon Keith Biggs
Hello,
I read on here that Audacity is accessible. I'm
wondering how to use
the preferences window? I need to change some key
bindings in order to
make it work on my laptop. When I hit ctrl+p the window
comes up, but I
can't tab or shift tab or arrow. I try to use the review
cursor, but
that doesn't seem to see the list of preference tabs.
How do I navigate through this preference window?
Thanks,
--
[1]Brandon Keith Biggs
References
1.http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
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