Re: [orca-list] Orca on the Raspbery Pie

[Andrew Hart <ahart42 gmail com>]

I can't remember what address I had to send the subscribe request to 
when I joined the raspberry-vi list, but it appears you can subscribe 
from the list's host server  Web page at
https://www.freelists.org/list/raspberry-vi

I managed to get Orca up and running on a Pi4, but at the time, Raspian 
Buster was the available version of the Raspberry Pi OS at the time. The 
version I used was from December 2020, if I recall correctly.
Something to keep in mind, at least with that version of Raspian, is 
that to set up Orca the Pi needs to be connected to a working Internet 
connection. That means you either need to configure wi-fi access to you 
home wireless network on the sd card before you try booting the Pi for 
the first time, or you need to hard link the Pi to your accesspoint or 
router via Ethernet cable. Not knowing anything about Wi-fi 
configuration at the time, and to eliminate as many factors that could 
go wrong from the equation, I did the latter.
When I did that, during set-up the Pi spoke a message instructing me to 
press Alt+Ctrl+Space to set up Orca. When you press that, it goes onto 
the Internet and downloads the accessibility framework, speech 
dispatcher, Orca and everything else it needed to set up Orca. All that 
stuff does not come on the installation image. Then it just started 
talking. I conjecture that if you don't have everything it needs ready 
to go immediately (i.e., it doesn't detect an Internet connection), then 
it might not give you the opportunity to set up Orca. After Orca was set 
up and speaking, then it allowed me to configure things like the region, 
language and Wi-fi connection. After that I was able to dispense with 
the hard wire connection to the Internet.

Hth,
Andrew.

On 1/3/2022 15:22, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
> I don't have a Pi 4, and have never tried setting up Orca on my Pi 2
> or 3, but while the Pi 4 is reported to actually have the raw power to
> use Orca effectively, reports on how well the Raspberry Pi
> Foundation's effortsto make setting Orca up easy are mixed...
>
> That said, as far as I know, posting to the Raspberry Vi mailing list
> should just be a matter of sending an e-mail to:
>
> raspberry-vi freelists org
>
> Though admittedly, I'm not sure if it blocks e-mails from non-list
> addresses and can't remember what I did to join.
>
> Also, not sure how up-to-date it is, but I do have the following
> tutorial bookmarked:
>
> https://techesoterica.com/getting-the-orca-screen-reader-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-4-with-raspbian-buster-and-the-mate-desktop/
>
> Which was written by one of the more prominent posters on Raspberry VI
> if memory serves.
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