Re: [orca-list] fluxbox accessibility

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

speech-dispatcher support in chromium is broken? works fine here. All
you need to do is add the --enable-speech-dispatcher flag when launching
chromium. IF you want to make this permanent, try copying
/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/
and opening the file in nano or your favorite editor. Go down to the
exec line and after /usr/bin/chromium, type space, followed by
--enable-speech-dispatcher. Save and close, and voila. It works again.
 Every time you start chromium you'll get a nag about you're using an
unsupported command line flag, and you're not as secure. I assume this
is a nag to get you to install the google tts voices, who knew google
would stoop to this.

On 06/15/2014 12:17 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Just an update. 
> On this slow system I can be working in aprox 5 seconds. It appears to take fluxbox about 2s before I can 
> successfully 
> press my shortcut for launching orca. I'll try getting orca to auto launch next, but at anyrate assumng 
> nothing cpu 
> intensive is going on anywhere else it takes orca about 3 seconds to say screenreader on after the shortcut 
> is pressed. 
> Still no luck on the list of aps I mentioned before. So, with no feedback in runbox terminals or 
> filemanagers it's a bit 
> uncomfortable for those like myself who like feedback along the way, and when you don't remember a file's 
> exact 
> name...lol. For sure the ticket for jumping on a voip ap quickly, or firing up firefox. 
> BTW, google-chrome browser with chromevox works, but the google-tts engines that one is forced to use these 
> days since 
> speech-dispatcher support was broken don't sound very good compared with when I run chrome from a full on 
> desktop.
> Still looking for any ideas on getting orca to work with other programs that work on gnome, mate, etc.
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-reader-enabled true
> has been done for some time here, so that isn't the problem.
> --
> B.H.
>   
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:03:14AM -0500, B. Henry wrote:
>
> > I am always looking for how to speed things up on my netbook, and generally am interested in helping those 
> > who can't come 
> > by the latest and greatest hardware to have a productive accessible Linux experience. Finally I have 
> > gotten around to 
> > trying fluxbox, and it certainly works well most of the time when it works,, e.g. firefox performs better 
> > than it does on 
> > the Desktop invironments I've tried; and instead of waiting 20 seconds before I hear screenreader on as is 
> > the case with 
> > Mate or XFCE Orca's ready to go in 10 secs or less. (and I can't start workin the instant I hear orca on 
> > the full featured 
> > desktops either as stuff is still loading)
> > Anyway, several programs do not show Orca what it needs it seems, programs that are normally accessible 
> > with no issues. No 
> > terminal emulator has worked for me yet, pidgin also isn't showing me anything, and neither caja nor 
> > pcmanfm "talk" to me.
> > Rhythmbox, mangler, mumble, teamtalk client, and a few others are working very well so far. 
> > Has anyone figured anything out to improve interaction between fuxbox and orca, or orca and any of these 
> > troublesome aps 
> > when using fluxbox?
> > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> >  
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