Re: [orca-list] skype accessibility

[Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun gmail com>]

Hi,
I have been talking to packager of qt-at-spi in Arch Linux. I forwarded
him message from Peter and he will create AUR package based on this
hack. Better than nothing, right?
Vojta
On 14.9.2014 20:52, Peter Vágner wrote:
> 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
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > 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
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > 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
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > > > {}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza