Re: Brltty restarts every few minutes in Bookworm

On 21/10/23 04:15, Eric Scheibler wrote: Therefore it seems, that not Brltty itself is the problem but something else, which causes Brltty to restart. But I've no clue, how to debug that. Have you run coredumpctl to check whether there are core dumps being generated? Also, is there

Re: Braille does not follow cursor in Mate Terminal

On 11/10/23 10:50, Patrick ZAJDA wrote: If I open a terminal and move the review cursor, I have the content read by voice as expected but braille does not follow, on my braille display content stays the same. BRLTTY may be providing access to the terminal independently of Orca, which has

Re: What's the most Accessible Linux VM Server Platform?

On 12/7/23 13:09, Al Puzzuoli wrote: I'll also want to be able to run a Windows environment with at least one virtualized domain controller, so that will be its own full virtual machine. You might be able to use Samba under Linux for that purpose. If I remember correctly, Samba 4 can be

Re: What's the most Accessible Linux VM Server Platform?

On 9/7/23 12:21, Al Puzzuoli wrote: I’m looking to run a mix of containers and virtual machines. I’ll likely end up containerizing  many services such as Pihole and plex, but I’m not sure it makes sense to containerize other things, such as Windows domain controllers, etc. To the best of my

Re: What's the most Accessible Linux VM Server Platform?

On 9/7/23 10:31, Al Puzzuoli wrote: I currently have a VMWare ESXI  host machine in my home lab. I’m considering alternative platforms and happy to experiment, but also don’t want to get part way down a rabbit hole and then realize I’m suddenly dealing with a bunch of hard to surmount

Re: How is unstable for dayly use?

On 14/6/23 15:50, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote: I've tried ArchLinux, but speech-dispatcher is probably broken, or maybe some other thing audio-related there. It's working well for me under Arch Linux, so there could be an issue related to your specific hardware. If that is the situation,

Re: Old Debian and Starting A Service

On 3/6/23 17:05, K0LNY wrote: I tried to apt-get install SSH, and it said it is already running the latest, which is the latest for it's package, which I don't know is Debian 2.1, because it's Vinux 2.1. But it does not know systemd or systemctl. So I don't know how to get the service

Re: How to Install Basic Debian CLI System with Networking and screen reader

If you're genuinely dissatisfied with the options provided by the Debian installer, you can always use Debootstrap to install Debian from the command line, and choose exactly the packages you want. On 31/5/23 00:21, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Glenn, I just installed in a Virtual environment

Re: Connect To WIFI In The CLI

On 29/5/23 15:47, K0LNY wrote: That is true, especially for people who don't save useful information like I do. But I save a lot of emails that I think have useful information, and I usually search my emails for a message that contains specific words to see if I saved it. I archive

Re: Connect To WIFI In The CLI

On 28/5/23 12:55, K0LNY wrote: I've been struggling with trying to get the WIFI up and going in this Asus ePC. I put my wpa_supplicant.conf file that I use on all my Linux machines on a thumb drive and mounted it on the Asus and copied it into /etc and into /etc/wpa_supplicant/. In general,

Re: Installing Open Media Vault

On 22/5/23 17:29, K0LNY wrote: Is it possible that OMV has no accessibility in it? Or is there something else in the Debian installer that brings up TTS? Having been on this and other Linux-related mailing lists for a long time, I notice a recurring pattern 1. Someone tries a little-known

Re: Request for review of release-notes item: GTK4 apps are not accessible with screen reader

On 7/5/23 15:00, Paul Gevers wrote: In bug 1034248 [1] against the release notes it has been brought up that GNOME isn't as accessible as it was before (I recall it already wasn't great and a11y prefer MATE already). Can you please review and comment on the proposed text below? Should there

Re: Bookworm 20230504 - sound state is muted on power on with qemu 7.2 arm64

/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/M1 And there may be more up to date information available elsewhere. > On May 5, 2023, at 11:47, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > On May 5, 2023, at 07:56, Jason White wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, I don't have suggestions to offer on this specific issu

Re: Bookworm 20230504 - sound state is muted on power on with qemu 7.2 arm64

Unfortunately, I don't have suggestions to offer on this specific issue. However, given that virtualization seems to be an important causal factor in both this problem and in your Speakup problems, at some point the question is whether you can reasonably reorganize your computing environment

Re: Debian Package Update Menu?

On 21/4/23 10:49, Chime Hart wrote: Well, now the menu is numeric-and-I am not sure actually typing 1 of these numbers will do any good. Entering a number may well work. In Debian, you should turn off the dialogue-based interface so that you can simply enter a response at the prompt.

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

Perhaps the following would also be worth trying: Rebuild Espeakup with compiler optimizations turned off and with debug symbols enabled. This might produce a beter gdb backtrace if you connect to the process when it's failing to generate output. You might also need to rebuild Espeak, though.

Re: Start BRLTTY only when a braille display is plugged

On 10/4/23 19:02, Patrick ZAJDA wrote: I've just purged brltty then re-installed it, with the same result. The systemd service is launched, udev does not seam to be used to start BRLTTY. Unfortunately, I don't have a Debian system here with which to check. On my Arch Linux machine, the

Re: Start BRLTTY only when a braille display is plugged

Patrick ZAJDA wrote: > I have a home server where I installed BRLTTY in the case I would have to > read something directly from the machine. > Debian Bullseye is installed on this machine. > > Is it possible to have it started only when I plug my braille display on an > USB port instead of

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

On 28/3/23 16:21, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: aplay -l says the audio devices now include the USB soundcard. It is card1 How do I get the desktop to use that from the CLI, so I have use of Orca? Or, if card0 is muted, how do I unmute it? amixer should let you unmute audio devices and set the volume.

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

On 25/3/23 14:21, Frank Carmickle wrote: Does anyone have any ideas? This isn't the answer you're looking for, but you could try making the switch to Fenrir instead. It's packaged in Debian.

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

On 25/3/23 13:27, Frank Carmickle wrote: That's nasty. What happens if you run Espeakup within gdb from the beginning? It doesn't speak at all. I may just not know what I'm doing in the debugger. Did you use the run command to start execution of the program once it was loaded in the

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

On 22/3/23 15:33, Frank Carmickle wrote: Here's the output inside gdb after espeakup stops talking. /build/gdb-yCDzia/gdb-13.1/gdb/thread.c:85: internal-error: inferior_thread: Assertion `current_thread_ != nullptr' failed. A problem internal to GDB has been detected, further debugging may

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

On 21/3/23 10:38, Frank Carmickle wrote: Should I run this inside gdb, or should we put in some print statements? Please let me know what I can do to help track this bugger down! Can you log in remotely and attach gdb to the espeak process when it's not speaking but (obviously) before you

Re: Installation Errors

On 19/3/23 13:23, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: No one answered my bug report about not being able to log in using my user account, so I will use "smartctl -t long" and see what is happening to my hard drive! I would suggest looking for relevant error messages in your system logs. For example,

Re: eMail Server On Debian

On 16/3/23 14:18, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: I'm wondering about setting up an eMail server here at home using my domain to have a POP3 server. [...] Has anyone here ever done this, and are there any good tutorials you recommend? I run my own on a virtual machine hosted by linode.com. There are

Re: startup script

On 13/3/23 17:58, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: What is the best way to get either a CLI command to run when the desktop is loaded? I typically use crontab and run a couple commands there, but I want this to run when the desktop starts, because the system won't connect to WIFI until the desktop starts.

Re: pipewire config

On 3/3/23 11:52, Frank Carmickle wrote: You've got me wondering if I should look at emacspeak on macos. I'd like to not have to carry a second machine around to have a screen reader that works in a terminal, which Voiceover just does so horribly at. Unfortunately, getting anything running

Re: Hypervisors

On 4/1/23 03:43, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: I had forgotten about that. I've been into the CMOS of many computers, back like 30 years ago, when I could barely use the screen, and later years with a reader, but haven't gotten into the BIOS for a long time. At least some of the UEFI variables can be

Re: Regression: Pipewire 0.63 breaks emacspeak-espeak-server

On 31/12/22 18:24, Paul Gevers wrote: It may be good to be aware that there are multiple upstream versions of emacspeak available that I haven't packaged for Debian yet. Irrespective of Linux distribution, I typically run Emacspeak directly from its Git repository, with code in my Emacs

Re: Regression: Pipewire 0.63 breaks emacspeak-espeak-server

Have you considered running Git bisect on Pipewire to identify the commit responsible? On 31/12/22 08:35, Sam Hartman wrote: [I'm copying Simon because I've been amazed at how good his advice is for debugging complicated problems. I totally understand if you don't have time to even suggest

Re: Orca Isn't Autostarting

On 10/12/22 14:32, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: The last command didn't give an error, but it still does not auto start. Thanks for trying. Have you examined your system logs to find out whether it attempts to start, but fails for some reason? Check whether at-spi2 is run. This is needed for Orca.

Re: Orca Isn't Autostarting

If you start Orca at the log-in dialogue with Alt-Super-S, it should remain running in the desktop session and persist across reboots. (I'm using Debian Testing and GNOME, so this isn't your exact situation.) Also, check your desktop's Accessibility settings and ensure that "screen reader" is

Re: replace pulseaudio with pipewire

On 10/10/22 07:15, Christian Schoepplein wrote: Sorry, maybe my last message contained a typo. The package is called pipewire-pulse... IMHO without this package no sound would be possible, so I am sure it is also installed on your system. It's important. My understanding is that it emulates

Re: Videocall hearing the voice of Orca

On 9/9/22 03:15, john doe wrote: I'm already doing that but it's a micro/headphone combo, so that might be the issue. Trying different headphones might be worthwhile. So far as I know, this is not a Linux-specific issue, so you probably aren't in a worse position than users of other

Re: Videocall hearing the voice of Orca

On 7/9/22 04:45, john doe wrote: How can I ensure that I'm the only one that will hear Orca and prevent other persons in the call from hearing it? I turn speech off during online meetings and use only the braille display. This eliminates the problem you describe. More importantly, it frees

Re: Cannot Connect To WIFI

On 3/9/22 11:36, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: I must be missing something, maybe someone here can assist. I put my working wpa_supplicant file in /etc/wpa_supplicant folder. If you're simply trying to establish a working wireless connection, you should be using one of the standard tools for this

Re: Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)?

On 28/3/22 13:57, Samuel Thibault wrote: I don't know about VPAT, but since Ubuntu has one, I guess Debian can have one, it'd be a matter of somebody having a look at it. The latest version of the VPAT allows for reporting of conformance to both U.S. and E.U. accessibility standards.

Re: Thanks for your help

On 26/3/22 11:25, Jim Armantage wrote: Braille is still in the conputer bgraille code in the virtual console.. You need to enter the BRLTTY Preferences Menu and enable contracted braille. Details vary, but if your display has a braille keyboard, use dots 1-2-3-4 with space bar to enter the

Pipewire (was Re: Thanks so Much)

On 18/3/22 09:30, Sam Hartman wrote: The other thing I care about is that pipewire is more likely to do intelligent things when audio cards are added or removed. After a while, when I've assigned various apps to various devices, plugging something in or unplugging it tended to get bad results

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

On 12/12/21 04:59, Pawel L. wrote: I am sure that it would be better for all of us to effectively support the development of ORCA, as is the case with NVDA in Windows, than to start new projects. Most of the issues with graphical user interface accessibility under Linux are in the desktop

Re: gaining access to the expert install options with speech possible?

On 3/10/21 08:58, majid hussain wrote: when i entered expert mode, I was not given an option to pick which version of debian I wanted to install? stable, unstable etc? is this not possible? The usual solution is to install Stable, then to upgrade to Testing or Unstable from within the

Re: method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

Nick Gawronski wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to have one of my other partitions on > my hard drive contain the Debian network installation with the non-free > firmware then setup grub for a text target I could type in after the boot > prompt comes up so when I run it the espeakup

Re: Debian 11 unofficial firmware first installation

Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > And considering how many "everything but the kitchen sink" distros > there are out there, I'll take Debian defaulting to a base system and > then installing the extra software I want via aptitude over a distro > that bundles many gigabytes of stuff I don't use and then

Re: Intel-Atom N270 processor question

Larry Honaker wrote: > As the subject indicates I have an old Netbook computer which I would > like to > experiment with as my first real attempt at a Debian > install. Where does the > Intel-Atom processor fit in the various > possible install configurations? So far as I know, it's simply an

Re: Report on Latest Testing (Bullseys) Weekly Build

D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > When booting after installation it is IMPOSSIBLE to log in using your > username. Did you try setting the password again (while logged in as root)? Also run journalctl -f in another console while attempting to log in, and check any log entries that are created. These

Re: Screen Reader

If you're planning to run Debian, then Orca would be your best option. It's reliable for Web browsing, in my experience. The other possibility that you might be able to run under Linux is ChromeVox (the new version, not the now obsolete browser extension). The new version requires you to

Re: Debian Newbie

On 13/7/21 2:04 pm, Devin Prater wrote: So, I'm trying to start over with Linux in a better way, asking more questions, and hopefully I'll have a better time with an actually helpful distro and community. So, any tips or getting-started info? I think learning the Linux command line shell

Re: Viable speech recognition tools?

On 21/5/21 6:54 am, Richard Owlett wrote: The links I found seemed to suggest Deepspeech was aiming at people like me. An important feature is that it is open source. However, I found on article suggesting Mozilla was winding down its development. [

Re: Orca on Whonix and TAILS

On 12/25/20 4:39 PM, Reece O'Bryan wrote: I’m wanting to install orca on either/and Whonix and TAILS. These are Debian-based and as such only need to download orca and its few dependencies, correct? I've never heard of them. First, find out whether Orca is already included in their

Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 12:20 To: Jason White Cc: Devin Prater , "debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org" , Vojtěch Šmiro , Alex ARNAUD Subject: Re: Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice) Jason said: "If it b

Mozilla TTS (was Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice)

There is interesting text to speech work underway at Mozilla - all free software/open-source. Demonstration: https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/commonvoice-loc-sens-attn Git repository: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS If it becomes reliable and works in real time, it could be adopted as the

Re: severe issue after installing debian to usb flash drive

On 7/21/19 8:38 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: I have put Debian on a USB stick but I have to change the boot order in BIOS to boot into it. You can usually also press a key during the boot process (it varies accoridng to the UEFI or BIOS firmware installed), and use arrow keys to select a

Re: braille support disapear's at change console.

Try enabling a getty instance on the console, for example: sudo systemctl start getty@tty2 I doubt that's the problem, but it's worth trying simple solutions first. On 6/10/19, 17:12, "Fran Torres" wrote: Hello, On class (i'm studding information technology on network's systems

Re: index braille embosser

; If any one has managed to get this combination working, would appreciate >> some pointers. > > Jason White, le sam. 06 avril 2019 16:55:28 -0400, a ecrit: >> I don't know how to configure Cups correctly for a braille embosser, > > This is documented in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README.gz , BRAILLE > EMBOSSING section. > > Samuel > >

Re: index braille embosser

What happens if you use cat (or something else) to send the BRF file directly to the port, bypassing cups? I don't know how to configure Cups correctly for a braille embosser, but writing directly to the port should work. On 4/6/19, 14:16, "Keith Barrett" wrote: Hello, Debian

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup? It Works!

Can't you simply run Systemctl enable espeakup To have the service start at boot time? Systemctl start espeakup Should start it in the current session. On 4/1/19, 22:56, "Martin McCormick" wrote: After getting the path in the correct place in /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service,

Re: Gnome settings hangs orca

On 2/8/19 7:16 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: To be clear, if you're using Orca, the Orca navigation for this works quite well. Yes, everything would be great if it had keyboard navigation. And yes, for people who don't need a screen reader, but for whom a mouse is not usable, the keyboard

Re: Gnome settings hangs orca

On 2/8/19 3:51 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: I wanted to follow up on this. It appears to be a couple of related things going on: 1) The wifi widget consumes a lot of CPU especially when it is selected. NetworkManager usually appears high on my top(1) listing, but I haven't noticed the applet.

Re: Has someone tried Chromium

Jude DaShiell wrote: > I forgot one critical detail, copy .json file you downloaded to > /usr/lib/chromium-browser/extensions/ before downloading and installing > chromium. Does this give you the "classic" version of ChromeVox, or the new one (known as ChromeVox Next), which

Re: GNOME Accessibility Observations #1

Sebastian Humenda wrote: > I'm experiencing this frequently after a crash of the x-server / after a > restart > of Orca. "killall speech-dispatcher && speech-dispatcher" resolves this > without > restarting Orca. It'd be intresting to find out what the cause is though. You

Re: method for changing wireless networks in Debian Stretch with mate installed from the command line

Nick Gawronski wrote: > Hi, I have installed the Stretch Debian release with software speech and get > the screen reader on message from orca or the console login prompt when I > reboot the system. My question is if all I wish to do currently is to > change wireless

Re: brltty 5.2 on jesse unable to pan right

Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: I have jesse 64-bit installed in a vm. I have my focus 40-blue Braille display connected and working with the vm. However, if there is more text on the line than I can see with the 40 cells, if I press the pan-right key, the focus jumps way beyond the

Re: Bug#667616: marked as forwarded (brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection)

Alan Gray a...@grayhs.org wrote: I do not need braille, so, as a workaround, I can remove brltty. If you can find out why BRLTTY was installed in the first place, i.e., which dependency installed it, the Debian developers will fix this so that it is installed only for people who want it.

Re: Does qt-at-spi actually work with Qt5?

Mario Lang ml...@debian.org wrote: What am I missing? Is this actually *supposed* to work? QT accessibility was significantly redesigned for QT5. If memory serves, it wasn't released until QT 5.2. The separate QT-AT-SPI should no longer be needed. On the other hand, I haven't read any

Re: Upload and Orca

Mario Lang ml...@debian.org wrote: I'd actually prefer for gnome-orca to do a stable point-release with the patches included. There are important changes currently being made to the Mozilla (Gecko) support, as discussed on the Orca list in recent threads. I would expect this work to be

Re: Upload and Orca

Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org wrote: Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net writes: Mario Lang ml...@debian.org wrote: I'd actually prefer for gnome-orca to do a stable point-release with the patches included. There are important changes currently being made to the Mozilla (Gecko) support

Re: LibreOffice not perfectly usable

MENGUAL Jean-Philippe mengualjean...@free.fr wrote: 1st, I remember the facts: on Debian testing with MATE, orca 3.12, LibreOffice Writer 4.3, I try: 1. File - Open, tab until File type combo box, arrow key to make it scroll. It doesn't work. To see the following item of the box, I need to

Re: Upgrading Orca?

MENGUAL Jean-Philippe mengualjean...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I see that orca 3.13 is in experimental. Could it go to sid to have a chance to be frozen in testing Jessie? 3.13 is not a release. It's a development version preparatory to 3.14. This isn't what you want in a forthcoming stable

Re: gnome-menus inaccessible in Wheezy

Odd Martin Baanrud mar...@lb7ye.net wrote: Hello, After a fresh installation of Debian 7, the menus in gnome are totally inaccessible with orca. It's so out of date that bug fixes are extremely unlikely. If you were running GNOME 3.12 from Sid you would be in a much better position, and bug

Re: iPhone personal hotspot

David Hoff Jr dhoffj...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Debian Wheezy console only installation. Is it possible to use the iPhone 5 Personal Hotspot for an internet connection on the Debian console. Using iwlist wlan0 scan I can get the network information, but though it seems to connect, I am

Re: Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: If you can't test Braille support, don't just remove it, ask for help testing. I would be happy to test Braille support on Linux, and I am sure there are others who would be willing to test as well. Actually, I think it's mostly used by people running

Re: How to change GSettings from command-line?

D. A. H. dh...@freedommail.co wrote: I've noticed this behavior in GNOME 3.10 instances ither than Debian, in which I have manually killed the speech-dispatcher process belonging to the user, gdm. Maybe the latest gdm offers options for pre-session and post-login type scripts that can handle

Re: solution to the problem of orca and gecko not working in non-gnome environment

I think I've found it with a quick search of the Mozilla repository. mozilla/accessible/src/atk/Platform.cpp, line 81: 81 #if defined(LINUX) defined(__x86_64__) 82 libPath.Append(:/usr/lib64:/usr/lib); If you change line 82 to

Re: Bug#739188: gnome-orca: python-speechd is gone

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org wrote: My bad, that command was only useful to *quit* orca from what I can see. I don't know how you would start Orca from the keyboard before, if that was at all possible. Maybe somebody from the list knows... It wasn't possible except by running

Re: Bug#739188: gnome-orca: python-speechd is gone

Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org wrote: On 22-02-14 20:07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: And we can revert the Orca change and keep binding orca+q to quit orca (that's a one-liner patch). Or leave it as is (as super+alt+s does that too) and see if we hear any complaints. Thoughts? I don't

Re: why speech-dispatcher uses pulseaudio?

Jarek Czekalski jarekc...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: As for the README.Debian file [2], it answers my question. But I didn't know that this is an important file. It's present in many Debian packages, and it's usually an important file to read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dotconf_1.3-0.1 ACCEPTED into experimental

Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org wrote: But as you are already running unstable, it is trivial to add experimental to your sources and install from there. I believe the default behavior of Debian is then that it will only install packages from experimental on specific request. Yes, that's the

Re: speech-dispatcher, who's gonna release it?

Jarek Czekalski jarekc...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Seems like all packages using speech-dispatcher have to change their include lines when switching from 0.7 to 0.8. jason@jdc:~$ aptitude search ~Dlibspeechd ~Ddepends:speech-dispatcher i brltty-speechd

Re: release speech-dispatcher 0.8 with dotconf requirement lowered to 1.0

Jarek Czekalski jarekc...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Fine. So we have a fallback solution. Now what my idea was. It's possible to run speech-dispatcher 0.8 without upgrading dotconf from 1.0 to 1.3. The commit introducing the 1.3 requirement for dotconf is this one:

Re: State of Orca in Testing

Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org wrote: Triggered by a private conversation with Jarek Czekalski I like to take this a step further. If progress in our accessibility tools are stalling due to not-up-to-date packages, I think we have a good reason to update those packages when the maintainer is

Re: edbrowse in Stable

Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, le Sun 08 Dec 2013 10:45:46 +0100, a écrit : hmmm I had not seen this problem. Could it be fixed or it'll be for next stable? And why such problem? I'm very surprised to see some relationship between edbrowse and Iceweasel,

Re: phantomjs, need it for a research platform

Doug Smith savant-technop...@cyber-wizard.com wrote: I am looking for the phantomjs package in jessie, but I cannot seem to find it. I need it to be the basis for a very important piece of research I plan to do soon. It's in unstable: Package: phantomjs New: yes State: not installed

Re: eSpeak command not emitting sound after disabling pulse audio

Sebastian Humenda shume...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, I have used the command suggested in the wiki to disable pulseaudio: dpkg-divert --add --rename /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf I don't think that's enough to disable it if PulseAudio is compiled (as it is by default) to use ALSA/PortAudio

Bug#726783: Add support for systemd

/brltty.service. Here is a patch. Review and improvements are most welcome. From ca26011b0b4a7eef89e48c5d68f7bbab7f1c54c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:03:31 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Add systemd service. --- debian/brltty.service | 30

Gnome-Shell updated in unstable; Orca update needed now

I've just updated to GNOME-Shell 3.8.4. I'm running the version of Orca 3.8.1 that I built from the unreleased package. Note that 3.10 will require Python 3 and the Speech-Dispatcher 0.8 issues to be sorted out. If anyone is in a position to move the version of Orca in unstable to at least 3.8,

Re: State of Orca in Testing

Shérab sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Which distributions do you have in mind which could be good candidates as far as accessibility and keeping up-to-date with upstram is concerned? It's probably not polite to mention those distributions on a Debian list, so let me first mention

Re: State of Orca in Testing

Manuel man...@a12x.net wrote: Three months ago I remember that Debian testing does has an issue with Orca, that causes the screen reader does not talk when the session is started. After I installed Debian Stable to use in my university and I did not follow the bug and your solution. Someone

Re: Increase volume in Debian Installer

Manuel man...@a12x.net wrote: Someone knows how can I increase/decrease volume in the Debian Installer? If I remember rightly, you can switch to a shell from the installer with alt-f2 or a similar key combination that you should be able to look up easily on the Web. At the shell prompt,

Re: Orca still broken in Sid - any suggestions?

Paul Gevers elb...@debian.org wrote: If I want to help and there is no packaging repository, I pull the current package by running dget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dotconf/dotconf_1.0.13-3.dsc and start from there. When finished, run debdiff against the dsc files and append it

Re: Orca still broken in Sid - any suggestions?

More progress with libdotconf: I've added a package for debug symbols. Advice about some of the lintian errors and warnings would be helpful at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Orca still broken in Sid - any suggestions?

I'm trying to build Speech-Dispatcher 0.8 in preparation for upgrading Orca. We need libdotconf = 1.3. Unfortunately 1.0.13-3 is in Sid currently, and there is no repository for the package when I run debcheckout. Suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Orca still broken in Sid - any suggestions?

Dear all, I just upgraded my desktop system to Sid and noticed that, as reported a while ago, Orca starts but hangs. Looking at the package versions, AT-SPI has been upgraded but Orca hasn't. Is there any chance that someone could push an Orca package upgrade soon into unstable? I tried

Re: Orca still broken in Sid - any suggestions?

For others who are interested in this: Speech-dispatcher 0.8 (needed for its Python 3 support) is in the Debian Git repository but hasn't been uploaded yet - there may still be work needed. There have been recent updates to the Orca package as well; it's waiting for the Python 3

Re: Problem running lxde and iceweasel in wheezy

Halim Sahin halim.sa...@freenet.de wrote: Now iceweasel report when started in terminal gtk accessibility module initialized. Thats it. Orca can't read anything inside firefox/iceweasel. I have also tested a plain firefox from mozilla.org (same result). Any idea what's wrong there? This

Re: problems and crashes in Wheezy

Halim Sahin halim.sa...@freenet.de wrote: Hi, My gnome has some problems which makes the desktop not realy usable for serious work. My general advice is this: as soon as there is a usable Gnome 3.8 and Orca 3.8 in Debian unstable or testing, upgrade your system, then report any remaining

Re: Debian 7 Installieren

Petra Ritter pe...@access-for-all.ch wrote: Hello. How install Debian 7 with speech or braille? Is there a special accessible installer or is the standard installer accessible? As far as I know, both speech and braille support are fully available from the standard Debian 7 installer

Re: Getting Started

Christopher Toth q.al...@gmail.com wrote: I hit alt+f7 again to return to the gdm login window. I selected my user and was greeted with a password field. Quite reasonable, I thought, while typing my password. This Linux accessibility thing has gotten a lot better! Access to Gdm with Orca was

Re: debian 7 live installer

Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Jonathan Nadeau, le Sun 26 May 2013 19:38:02 -0400, a écrit : I assumed the live installer and the net installer were the same. Unfortunately no. Only the non-live installer was made accessible. If the live image includes debootstrap and disk

Re: broken orca on testing

Doug Smith savant-technop...@cyber-wizard.com wrote: Orca was working this afternoon, both before and after the upgrades. After the system was restarted following the updates, no orca. Sound works in gnome, all other aspects of the sound system seem to be fine, but, with no access to

Bug#707912: espeak: the AUDIO=runtime compilation ption does not invoke PulseAudio as intended

for this. Anyone with a better solution is welcome to offer it. From d47ee05d303762567f27c4aae2729d297c52f0f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:33:51 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Rebuild object files with AUDIO=runtime after building static library without

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