Re: [orca-list] skype accessibility

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
Here are instructions you can run from the terminal in order to do what 
José is suggesting.

mkdir /tmp/lib32-qt-at-spi
cd /tmp/lib32-qt-at-spi
wget 
"http://archlinux.surlyjake.com/archlinux/community/os/i686/qt-at-spi-0.3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz";
tar xvf "qt-at-spi-0.3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz"
sudo mv usr/lib/qt4/plugins/accessiblebridge /usr/lib32/qt/plugins/
cd
rm -Rf /tmp/lib32-qt-at-spi

I know this is not clean solution because that directory is not a part 
of the package and if lib32-qt4 gets updated you need to most likelly 
repead this by looking up the new qt-at-spi i386 package from the arch 
linux website.
However up to now this is the only way allowing screen reader access to 
skype on 64 bit arch linux and derivatives.

Greetings

Peter

On 14.09.2014 at 19:48 José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> You need to create the necessary directories.
>
>
> On 09/14/2014 01:37 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > Jose,
> > I spoke, or wrote too soon.
> > I did not create any directory, and do not have accessiblebridge in 
> > lib32/plugins. Did you make that dir?
> > I have accessible only, and there are widgit .so files there now.
> > It's been several months since I tried to get skype to talk last 
> > time, and I think I cleaned up the copied  files that did
> > not work for me, so can't be 100% sure that I tried here or not. I 
> > know for one I put the file in lib/qt4, so maybe I am
> > in for a pleasant surprise.
> > I just need to know if I need to mkdir, or if for some reason you had 
> > that directory there.
> > Thank you.
> > --
> > B.H.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:28:05AM -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de 
> > Souza wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > I am using arch and what I did to got some accessibility in skype  
> > > was put a
> > > 32-bit copy of libqspiaccessiblebridge.so
> > >   in /usr/lib32/qt/plugins/accessiblebridge.
> > >
> > > I grabbed the copy from a 32-bit qt-at-spi package but I can send a 
> > > copy in
> > > pvt if necessary.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > On 09/13/2014 11:59 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > > > Nor cn I get skype to talk on 64bit arch.
> > > > If you had 32bit it'd be fine, but some kind of 32bit compile of 
> > > > qt-at-spi is needed I hear, but no one has told me
> > > > exactly what to do, and nothing I've tried has worked.
> > > > On other distros this is pretty easy to resolve  just installing a 
> > > > 32bit qt-at-spi package, and you of course do need some
> > > > 32bit libs for skype to run at all.
> > > > I'm out of luck anyway for the moment as I'm not running pulse 
> > > > audio, and rally would prefer not to. Latest skype has no
> > > > directt alsa support as did all before it.
> > > > Too bad as latest skype is very accessible with only minor issues. 
> > > > Even 4.2 packages were usable for most features with
> > > > speech.
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:53:53PM -0400, Hussain Jasim wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm on a 64-bit Archlinux system with Orca Master and QT-AT-SPI
> > > > > installed. I'm trying to access Skype, but there is no feedback
> > > > > whatsoever.
> > > > >
> > > > > I seem to recall that it is at least partially accessible now, but I
> > > > > don't know how to get it to work. Has anybody gotten Skype usable on
> > > > > Archlinux? I think part of the problem is with mixing library
> > > > > architectures.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Hussain
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> > > --
> > > {}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza