Re: [orca-list] bug in latest antergos release prevents orca from speaking

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 28/01/2018 à 10:15, kendell clark a écrit :
> Hi all
>
> I  got an ultrabook for Christmas, a vizio ct14. It’s a great machine 
> and all that, and I dual boot antergos 18.1 and windows 10. The iso 
> image of 18.1 ships with gnome 3.26 and speaks with orca when launched. 
> However when installed, even with the accessibility packages turned on, 
> orca fails to speak. I believe, but cannot prove, that this is a 
> speech-dispatcher bug. This is with mate 1.18, orca 3.26 stable and the 
> latest stable version of speech-dispatcher. I can’t provide any error 
> logs right now, but if joanie wants I can provide a debug log, although 
> I’ll have to reinstall antergos since I removed it when it wouldn’t 
> speak. Sorry I’m not able to provide more information, all I have right 
> now is that orca doesn’t speak, but “espeak ‘hi’” speaks, so I know the 
> sound works. Trying numerous times to restart orca with “orca -r” and 
> “killall orca speech-dispatcher” followed by “orca -r”, and as a last 
> resort, “rm -rf ~/.local/share/orca ~/.config/pulse” followed by “orca 
> -r”, nothing works. I’ve alerted antergos on twitter but I’m not sure if 
> they’ll do anything about it.

Maybe if you expect to have a rolling release distribution accessible 
out-of-the-box, you should try Debian testing. There is a important and 
active accessibility team.

Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"