Re: [orca-list] Zoom with Orca

[<prayner unimelb edu au>]

Dear ch'uqi, QT is a toolkit for building applications, an alternative
to gtk on which much of gnome is built. As I understand it, the
current version of zoom uses qt version 5 which is meant to be
moderately accessible. What does the command
which zoom
in your emacs shell return
Should we continue this conversation offline or are others having the
same problem?
regards
Peter

Hwaen Ch'uqi writes:
> Greetings Peter,
>
> I called zoom-client from an emacs shell, but there was no output
> displayed in the buffer afterwards. I also invoked it from the
> terminal but inside a script session. A typescript file was created,
> but no messages were in the file save my initial call to zoom-client.
> You mentioned something about QT_ACCESSIBILITY, which I must admit I
> know absolutely nothing about. What is qt, and if I have it, where
> could I alter settings for it? I typed qt in the terminal and tabbed
> for completion. One command came up - namely, qt-faststart. Thanks for
> any more help.
>
> Hwaen Ch'uqi
>
>
> On 7/31/20, prayner unimelb edu au <prayner unimelb edu au> wrote:
> > I can't shed much light on this. Do you get any messages in the
> > terminal where you start zoom? I usually run it with alt-f2 which
> > doesn't show messages but starting it from an emacs shell it prints a
> > lot of stuff to the shell output but also will present a few things to
> > orca. I tested whether unsetting QT_ACCESSIBILITY would silence it but
> > it didn't. I would be quite surprised if a minor version change did
> > the trick though.
> > I'll try to think of some other tests
> > regards
> > Peter
> >
> > Hwaen Ch'uqi writes:
> > > Greetings Peter,
> > >
> > > I currently have zoom-client  5.1.422789.0705 installed, and when I
> > > call it from the command line, absolutely nothing is heard. Must I
> > > call it with any flags? I have tried, for example,
> > > --force-renderer-accessibility, but nothing changes. What should I
> > > expect to hear if anything? Should I regress to the version that you
> > > mentioned? Not necessarily sure I know how to do that?
> > >
> > > Thank you for any help.
> > >
> > > Hwaen Ch'uqi
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/30/20, peter rayner via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> > > > Yes, I use zoom client on linux a lot. My current version is
> > > > 5.0.413237.0524. Accessibility is by no means wonderful but most
> > > > things that are supposed to work with keyboard shortcuts seem to work.
> > > > One problem with sound is that zoom often connects to something other
> > > > than the standard sound sink so that sound appears dead. It doesn't
> > > > usually take out the rest of my applications with it though which
> > > > sounds like your problem. Unfortunately the dialogues about choosing
> > > > audio devices aren't very accessible so I usually have to call for
> > > > sighted help when that happens.
> > > > regards
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Nimer Jaber writes:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anyone gotten Zoom to work under Linux? The Zoom Linux client that
> > > > > is=
> > > ?
> > > > > As soon as I go into a meeting, I lose all audio, and the only way
> > > > > seemingly to get it back is to restart my session. Are there any options
> > > > > =
> > > I
> > > > > need to set up for audio to work more reliably?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
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