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

While not Raspbian/RPOS, I know Stormux has managed to get Orca working
on that specific distro however and I'm not sure how that's achieved,
but it is working there. Admittedly, Stormux is based on Arch ARM
however and tweaked to be easier for blind/VI users to work with so I
don't know how much o what's done over there helps with this, but it's
showing it is possible on a Pi 4B and 400 to get Orca running smoothly
in a window manager like Ratpoison/lightweight DE like LXQT or, with
some prodding, Mate.

On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:24:08PM -0300, Andrew Hart via orca-list wrote:

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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