Re: [orca-list] Skype, google-chrome, chromevox, and orca.

["Hwaen Ch'uqi" <hwaenchuqi gmail com>]

Greetings,

I am using orca-3.28.0 and Google Chrome 79.0.3945.79.

As for Skype and Firefox compatibility, I added the extension
recommended. It does seem now to allow use of Firefox, but I still
haven't figured out how to exactly navigate things with orca.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 12/16/19, John Covici <covici ccs covici com> wrote:
> So what version of chromium do I need for orca to work -- I assume I
> need orca master?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:17:40 -0500,
> José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > What version of orca and chrome did you try?
> >
> > The latest versions of orca and chrome / chromium have good
> > accessibility. There are some flags that need to be passed to
> > chrome at the time of execution to enable accessibility.
> >
> > I can't talk much about skype in the browser because I never used it.
> >
> > There were some pidgin plugins that made it possible to send and
> > receive text messages via skype. I don't know if they would be of
> > any help.
> >
> >
> > On 12/16/19 4:35 PM, Hwaen Ch'uqi via orca-list wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I am a user of ubuntu-18.04. I must take a job interview via skype in
> > > exactly one month. I have been trying to get skype working but with no
> > > success thus far. At the moment, I am totally lost and would
> > > appreciate ANY detailed help. I tried installing the latest version of
> > > skypeforlinux, but orca stops speaking from the very first screen. I
> > > tried using skype from the website but was informed that firefox is
> > > not a supported browser. So I installed the latest .deb file of
> > > google-chrome (as searches seem to yield that chromium would not be
> > > optimal) and discovered again that orca does not automatically work
> > > with google-chrome. Now I would like to install chromevox, but I have
> > > found no clear-cut and recent directions on how to do this. And do I
> > > understand correctly that chromevox, once installed, is supposed to
> > > work in tandem with orca? Again, any help would be MOST appreciated!
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > Hwaen Ch'uqi
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> > > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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> > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
>
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