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Re: [orca-list] fluxbox accessibility

Yes, I've had this in my xinitrc for as long as I"ve run a GUI on arch-linux since I run XFCE, Mate and now 
fluxbox 
instead of the more out of the box accessible gnome. In fairness mate is catching up to gnome and is 
proabably comparable 
to unity re accessibility once the gtk module you mention is exported and a couple of gesettings have been 
modified. 
Thanks for the reply.
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B.H.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:40:16AM +0200, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello,
Have you tried exporting GTK_MODULES variable in your xinitrc or somewhere
else so it's sourced while fluxbox is starting up?
I have never tried it but this was needed in old gnome, it helps with
initial setup of xfce and possibly other enviromments where accessibility is
not yet fully integrated into.
In case of xfce I am starting it using slim with its autologin feature what
in turn uses ~./.xinitrc where I have a line like this

export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge

Greetings

Peter



On 15.06.2014 19:17, 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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