Re: will the installer keep accessible?

2021-08-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 03:47:23AM AEST, milton wrote: > Hi, > > As of less than 2 months before the release of Ubuntu 21.10 the installer > seems not accessible with Orca screen reader, I worried about my current > job. Will the installer be accessible with Orca in the LTS-version 22.04 as > in

Re: Uubuntu 21.04 beta has inaccessible installer

2021-02-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 06:27:41PM AEDT, Vojtěch Polášek wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know the mailing list but I saw some conversation. Yes, Ubuntu > currently has inaccessible installer, unfortunately. They are using flutter > framework. But Flutter developers are aware of it and they are working

Re: will installer in the future be accessible with speech?

2021-02-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 09:25:26AM AEDT, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 12:09:54AM AEDT, milton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I heard about flutter and future installer of Ubuntu. Hopefully the > > installer then will be like now accessible with Orca? If not

Re: will installer in the future be accessible with speech?

2021-02-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 12:09:54AM AEDT, milton wrote: > Hi, > > I heard about flutter and future installer of Ubuntu. Hopefully the > installer then will be like now accessible with Orca? If not I have to start > looking for another job. I highly doubt it. Whilst flutter uses GTk, I believe it

Re: dpkg problem using apt

2021-02-06 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 04:14:30AM AEDT, Glenn K0LNY wrote: > Hi All, > I'm running Ubuntu 18 in a VmWare session on this computer, and I tried to > install a package that I read from it's web page that it will install into > Ubuntu with apt > sudo apt install gnuradio -y > And I get an error

Re: xubuntu on Pine64 no audio

2019-04-04 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 11:22:01AM AEDT, Glenn At Home wrote: > It looks like this distro does not support the audio device built into the > board. > I did arecord -l > and it listed no devices > I also did lspci | grep > and it listed no audio devices. > Any ideas? Firstly, such hardware does

Re: Xenial Mate [20170306] built by PINE64

2019-04-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 08:44:59AM AEDT, Glenn At Home wrote: > But this does support my board: > Xenial Mate [20170306] built by PINE64 > So my question, is, does Xenial Mate on the desktop version come with Orca? This is rather easy to find out without booting the image. You can loop mount the

Re: where are orca apps settings saved?

2018-04-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 03:46:20AM AEST, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > > I changed some orca's settings for Firefox, but when I go to > .Local/share/orca, I can't find firefox.py file. Where is the file located? > I changed voice speed for general Orca settings for Orca, but the script > saved my

Re: ot gnac replacement

2018-04-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 03:35:23AM AEST, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > > when I used Arch Linux, I used Gnac to convert multiple files with multiple > multimedia formats. Gnac is outdated and I am searching for some app with > the same functions, but I can't find the best accessible solution. Can

It is time for me to depart.

2017-11-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my departure from free and open source software development. GNU/Linux and free and open source software development has been a part of my life for well over a decade, some high points being my employment at Canonical for

A big in crease of spam hitting the moderation queue, any Windows/Mac users please check your systems.

2017-07-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks. In the last half a week or so, there has been a massive increase in spam hitting the moderation queue for this list, however there has not been the same increase in the queue of the other Ubuntu lists I moderate. If you are a Windows or Mac user in any capacity, and you read/send

Re: Ubuntu 17.04 and orca

2017-06-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 12:50:58AM AEST, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > Maybe Luke has information about that. Further to this, I have found a fix, such that Orca will properly read the top indicator menu, and also the menus in Mate should also work properly. The fixes should hopefully be in Ubuntu 17.04

Re: The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

2017-05-26 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:14:45AM AEST, Nick Wood wrote: > Hi Sam, > > I'm sure Luke will be along in a little while with more details, but the > following list is from his funding page: Thanks Nick. I did reply to Sam on another list. Luke -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

2017-05-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all. I am writing to let you all know of my newly launched crowd funding campaign to continue to work full time on Linux accessibility development. Please spread the word if you are able, it would be much appreciated. https://patreon.com/lukefoss If any of you are also able to support

Re: systemback and no orca

2017-02-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:59:12AM AEDT, Daniel Crone wrote: > For that reason, I Got systemback, and launched it. I am running ubuntu > 16.04 gnome desktop after removing unity. > For whatever reason, Orca speaks nothing when running systemback. > Could systemback be too much for this old

Re: gnome-speech-dectalk

2017-02-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 04:18:44PM AEDT, Amir wrote: > Hi, > found this on the web. can i use it with orca? > https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/yakkety/universe/base/gnome-speech-dectalk GNOME Speech is no longer supported by Orca. In addition, the package you refer to requires that you

Re: latest ubuntu zesty

2017-02-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:48:48AM AEDT, mattias wrote: > i playing around with it on a chromebook > > but the X wont start > > i think there is no graphic driver for ARM Mali-T624 This is likely. I'd also suggest staying on Ubuntu 16.04. There are a few things that are broken in zesty right

Re: Budgie desktop accessibility

2017-01-08 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 02:49:35AM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > > when I go to cdimage.ubuntu.com, I can see daily builds for Ubuntu Budgie. > Is the Budgie desktop accessible? It can be an interesting desktop. No idea, and I suspect not, as nobody has looked into making sure accessibility

Re: Does Minimal ubuntu talk?

2016-12-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 04:18:38AM AEDT, Martin McCormick wrote: > Does the current minimal ubuntu CD talk? I am pretty sure it does not. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: making a bluetooth speaker work

2016-11-17 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:42:12PM AEDT, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Hi, > I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH. > I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker pocket > Bluetooth Speaker. > I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in >

Re: Kodi

2016-11-10 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:03:50AM AEDT, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded Kodi for Windows, and installed it on Windows 7 with Jaws 16, > and it was totally unusable, even with the Jaws cursor. > So I am wondering, how is it in Ubuntu with Orca? It would be no different, i.e not

Re: Ubuntu 16.04.1, no orca

2016-10-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:59:42AM AEDT, Daniel Crone wrote: > Also, when running the stick again, I get the drumbs, then try super key alt > s, and no orca. Anyone else have that happen? Try pressing Alt first, then super, then s. I've found that sometimes the order matters. Luke --

Re: testing Unity 8

2016-10-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 05:24:51AM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > > I successfully upgraded from 16.04 with do-release-upgrade and I found new > session, Unity 8 here, but when I select it and login, I get no speech or no > sound. Default unity 7 works. How can I test the new Unity 8 with Orca?

Re: How to use the HUD in Xenial with Orca?

2016-09-04 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:28:20AM AEST, David Hunt wrote: > When I tap the alt key, I get an entry area, typing into this results in > silence from orca until I dismiss the thing. How is this supposed to work? > if, for instance, I type 'settings' into the hud, when a browser window is >

Re: Orca not speaking when I install Ubuntu 16.4 into vmware

2016-08-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 07:37:47PM AEST, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > What is your plan for speech integration in Ubuntu Server ? > I will be very happy if you could write a tutorial for helping us to install > Ubuntu Server. I do not currently have any plans to integrate any form of text to

Brltty 5.4 backported to Xenial.

2016-08-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all. As some of you are experiencing problems with BrlTTY, I decided to go ahead and backport 5.4 from yakkety to xenial. As per usual, these packages are available from the Ubuntu Accessibility dev PPA, https://launchpad.net/~accessibility-dev/+archive/ppa. BrlTTy will be built and

Re: Orca not speaking when I install Ubuntu 16.4 into vmware

2016-08-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:05:20AM AEST, Pranav Lal wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to create a virtual machine using Ubuntu server 16.4 64bit. The > file I am using is called ubuntu-16.04-server-amd64.iso. I can create the > virtual machine using the easy install procedure from within vmware

Please trim your posts.

2016-08-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi folks. Just a reminder that you should trim your posts. If you really feel you must top post, then please trim anything that is not relevant to the conversation and your reply. I've just had to let through some posts because they were too big, and this could have been avoided by doing a

Re: Snap packages, what is the accessibility outlook?

2016-05-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 06:58:21AM AEST, B. Henry wrote: > As the subject says, I'm of course interested in whether or not any, many or > most snap aps are and or will be accessible with orca. For the most part, packaging has nothing to do with accessibility. Everything running in containers is

Re: Ubuntu gnome and ppas

2016-05-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:20:55PM AEST, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > Dear Pavel, it seems that the Gnome PPA provide for now some 3.18 update and > I'm not sure about the migration to Gnome 3.20. Whether the latest GNOME is usable on Ubuntu depends largely on the version of GTK in Ubuntu, and the GNOME

Ubuntu 16.04 Braille users, please help test proposed BrlTTY update.

2016-04-28 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks. Further to the email I recently sent about a broken brlTTy package in Ubuntu 16.04, and the subsequent availability of a fixed package in the Ubuntu Accessibility dev PPA, I have submitted the fixed package as an update for 16.04. This fixed package is actually slightly better than what

Re: orca won't start on 16.04

2016-04-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 03:51:10AM AEST, chad baker wrote: > Hi just burned 16.04 to disk and orca won’t start when doing control s > Did things change? Urm, yes. Upstream GNOME adopted a different keystroke a while ago, so we followed suit. You now use super + alt + S to start Orca. Luke --

Re: [orca-list] Heads up, Braille in 16.04.

2016-04-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 09:56:08PM AEST, Hammer Attila wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Thank you your answer. > If I would like doing a custom live CD with containing custom a11y settings, > not matter if both enabled the RUN_BRLTTY=yes and BRLTTY systemd service? You're probably better to leave the

Re: [orca-list] Heads up, Braille in 16.04.

2016-04-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:48:27PM AEST, Hammer Attila wrote: > Hi Luke, > > In xenial need enabling the /etc/default/brltty file the RUN_BRLTTY=yes > configuration key after the updated package awailable in Xenial repository? > When need using this setting preference? If you have a USB Braille

Heads up, Braille in 16.04.

2016-04-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi folks. Unfortunately due to some misunderstanding on how some things worked on my part, and properly testing things cleanly at the time, BrlTTY as of the latest version in 16.04 is not properly functional. Neither enabling it in /etc/default/brltty nor plugging in a USB display and having

Re: gnome shell versus mate

2016-04-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:41:20AM AEDT, kendell clark wrote: > Gnome is great if you don't want to have a customized panel with > different applets on it. The gnome panel is set and can't be changed > easily. It requires an extension or gsettings keys to do so. GNOME shell is quite a lot more

Re: will speech be possible with BQ Aquaris M10 convergence?

2016-03-31 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:20:33AM AEDT, Nolan Darilek wrote: > I feel like the OP's question is a bit different. > > My understanding of these devices is that they become full(er) desktops when > plugged in to external hardware. At this point, would existing desktop APIs > take over and grant a

Which distro to use was Re: accessibility profiles, what is it and how it works?

2016-03-31 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:07:10PM AEDT, Daniel Crone wrote: > Hello. On an external hard drive I have vinux 5, but thought of putting > ubuntu on it. > I welcome anyone’s advice as to which version of ubuntu might be most > accessible. Also, I would like to know if I might do better using

Re: accessibility profiles, what is it and how it works?

2016-03-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:28:59AM AEDT, B. Henry wrote: > Is there now, or will there in the planned future be an easy way to export > and import accessiblity profiles? If you have a profile, you can just drop it in /usr/share/a11y-profile-manager/profiles and it should be picked up. It does

Re: accessibility profiles, what is it and how it works?

2016-03-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:31:46PM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > after today's update, when I press alt f10 key, I get accessibility > profiles menu. I am using Orca normally, but no profile was selected. > I changed it to screen reader witch speech. What changet? I am using > Ubuntu daily, to

Re: Orca 3.20 in ubuntu 16.04 question

2016-03-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:06:15AM AEDT, B. Henry wrote: > Is accessibility overall going to be similar in 16.04 to recent Ubuntu > releases? have things changed much on the accessiblity front since 14.04? Beyond what new stuff Orca brings to the table, not a lot. The accessibility profile

Re: Orca 3.20 in ubuntu 16.04 question

2016-03-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 04:34:14AM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > Orca 3.20.0 is here. Is here a chance to be released in Ubuntu 16.04, > or 3.18.2 will be included in 16.04? I don't know Ubuntu release plan. > Can I read it somewhere? Orca 3.18.2 will be in Ubuntu 16.04. I will make Orca 3.20

Re: Some icons aren't spoken by Orca

2016-03-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 07:34:47PM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > I installed the latest daily build of Ubuntu to my laptop. I am testing it > again and I found one small issue. Some icons in alt plus f10 panel aren't > spoken by Orca. For example. Go to messages menu. You can see some icons and

Re: No Braillesupport

2016-03-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:31:16AM AEDT, Vdsl Hosting | Jordy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to Ubuntu 14.04.3 and Linux in general. > > I installed Ubuntu an hour ago and it works fine, I think. One thing I found > is > very strange! I have no braillesupport in Orca. It is Orca 3.10.x. > > If

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:20:18PM AEDT, Michael Pozhidaev wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Luke Yelavich writes: > > > There is much to be done to get this off the ground. Given that > > Canonical is writing its own display server Mir, the first requirement > > is to pro

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-02-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 03:12:58PM AEDT, Michael Pozhidaev wrote: > Hi guys, > > A lot of rumors appears around the Ubuntu phone, what is very great news > in itself. I'm just wondering is there any work to make this phone > accessible for the blind? Or it is already suitable now? Anyway, what is

Re: Installing Ubuntu without GRUB

2016-01-10 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 06:46:51AM AEDT, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Hi Again, > I have been researching this concern, and it seems to me that I came up with > an idea that might work. > I just don't recall the installation steps to know for sure if I will get my > option to do this step. > I suspect

Re: reporting Unity accessibility bugs

2015-11-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
Firstly, this is a list specifically for bug notifications, the general Ubuntu accessibility list would be a better place to post this. As such, I am CCing that list. My reply is inline. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:52:55AM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: > Hi, > I tried a lot of distros, with Gnome,

At-spi/atk 2.18 and Orca 3.18 available in Ubuntu accessibility dev PPA.

2015-09-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks. This is just a quick message to let you know that the latest stable GNOME accessibility stack will be available shortly in the Ubuntu Accessibility dev PPA, found at http://ppa.launchpad.net/~accessibility-dev/+archive/ppa. This update includes at-spi2-core, at-spi2-atk and pyatspi, as

Re: is there a development project for the Braille Sense?

2015-08-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:52:00AM AEST, Eric Oyen wrote: hello group. Is there a development project to compile a running version for the braille sense U2? I am trying to find out what ARM chip they are using and a few other specifications. The device currently runs on windows CE 6 (ugh!)

Re: orca and firefox

2015-08-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:14:10AM AEST, Lucas Radaelli wrote: Folks, Just wanted to say that I gave orca and firefox another try and the experience seems to be much better than i was used to! this is awesome. I am running 14.04. Just to make sure that I got the best that is available,

Re: orca and firefox

2015-08-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 07:58:19AM AEST, kk wrote: Wow, Who maintains this ppa for accessibility devel? I do. Luke -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: working with magnification

2015-07-19 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:47:29PM AEST, Milton wrote: Thank you Luke for the information. It gives me hope for my projects using the LTS 16.04. For now I have to figure out about the Compiz settings for to try out. Do you mean Compiz with the GNOME shell?magnifier No, GNOME shell is a

Re: working with magnification

2015-07-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:49:29AM AEST, Milton wrote: I tried virtual Magnifyer Glass in GNOME Metacity. So my friend has to judge by himself if it is good enough. Last year I tried Compiz but I could not put the settings right. If your friend needs cursor/text tarcking, then the GNOME shell

Re: is Ubuntu accessible on the raspberry pi?

2015-07-08 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 04:39:40AM AEST, Milton wrote: Hello everybody, I'm wondering if Ubuntu is accessible with Orca on the raspberry pi? Not that I know of. Luke -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Orca on ubuntu 14.04

2014-10-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 01:10:38PM EDT, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hello, I experience known bugs in Ubuntu 14.04 with Orca and Libreoffice. Does a 3.14 orca exist as ubuntu package? How can I have it? PPA? Is there an update? I have just uploaded Orca 3.14, as well as the latest

Re: Unmuting Login Greeter Ubuntu Mate 14.10?

2014-10-20 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:57:15PM EDT, D. A. H. wrote: Hi, I'm running an installation of Ubuntu Mate edition, and cannot seem to unmute the login greeter. the 'ctrl+s' and 'alt+super+s' keystrokes do not result in speech. The desktop talks just fine, thanks; I've added the Orca built

Re: Why no at-spi2-core update for so long?

2014-09-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 06:23:16AM AEST, Francesco Fumanti wrote: Hi, I wanted to point out, that at-spi2-core has not been updated for quite some time in Ubuntu. Indeed, Ubuntu utopic is still shipping version 2.10, while 2.14 has just been released. Moreover, I have noticed, that

Re: No audio in Ubuntu Gnome

2014-09-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 12:34:51AM AEST, Lenny wrote: Hi, After having total audio problems with Ubuntu Mate, I tried installing Ubuntu Gnome on this laptop, a Compaq Presario 2500, with a GB of RAM. I had audio through the installation with the live DVD. When I booted up and came to the

Re: ubuntu gnome 14.04 question

2014-08-20 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 04:50:46PM AEST, Milton wrote: I'm actually helping sighted people to install Ubuntu on their devices. sometimes I met with laptops which have no super key. How can I start Orca in that case? Tanks. Well, perhaps I'll leave the Control S keystroke in place for the

Re: indicator applet of gnome-session-flashback is not accessible with Orca

2014-08-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:42:36PM AEST, Milton wrote: Dear developers, Because the Dash is not accessible with Orca in Trusty Unity I tried the gnome-session-metacity after installing: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-flashback I cannot get to the indicator applet, in Unity I did this with

Re: will the Dash be accessible for Orca in Trusty?

2014-08-11 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 07:40:47AM AEST, Rob Whyte wrote: Hi, I believe there is a race condition preventing Orca from reading this reliably. A bit of playing with the flat review will sometimes get it accessible. I am aware that Luke has been trying to track the problem down but not sure if

Re: Compiz

2014-08-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 03:34:46AM EST, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, Does Ubuntu has a prospective about Compiz? Is it maintained? who maintains? My project is packaging it for Debian, and making it work with MATE or making all its features work with Unity for low-visual impaired people.

Re: LTS release

2014-04-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:13:26AM EST, Tom Masterson wrote: Does anyone know when the 14.04 release should be up on the release update site? I would like to be able to use do-release-upgrade to upgrade to the new LTS release but it is not available yet. Users are offered to upgrade to 14.04

Re: can't remove partitions in Vinux

2014-04-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 05:50:08PM EST, blind Pete wrote: Is your hard disk GPT or MBR? You could try gdisk or cgdisk for the former. For the latter try fdisk or cfdisk. I would argue to still use gparted. This is due to modern disks, particularly advanced format drives requiring correct

Re: Looking for a talking ARM image

2014-01-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:45:25AM EST, Lenny wrote: Hi All, Is there a talking Ubuntu, or talking Arch for the ARM platform? I have an MK802 and I tried the RPI version of Arch, but it did not come up talking. Mind elaborating exactly what hardware this is? Is it a tablet, or some other

Re: Some time horrible speech in Ubuntu 13.10 awailable Espeak and Speech-dispatcher

2013-11-28 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 02:28:28AM EST, Hammer Attila wrote: Hi Nadire, I will be doing a PPA version if you would like this, but I would like waiting Luke answer. Better doing a main archive awailable fix if this is possible, because the fix is officialy reviewed. What fix is this

Re: Estimated what GNOME version will ship with Ubuntu 14.04?

2013-11-17 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 08:25:41PM EST, Hammer Attila wrote: Hi, Estimated the Ubuntu 14.04 final release what GNOME version will be ship? GNOME 3.8 or 3.10? How will be happening a11y stack related updates and importanter components related updates (GTK3, Gnome Shell, etc)? Ubuntu 14.04

Re: dreams and schemes

2013-11-05 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi folks, As much as I think this discussion needs to happen, this list is not the place. If you still want to discuss this topic, which IMO is a good thing, plesae consider using another list to do so. My recommendation is the Blinxu list, which is for general blind linux related discussion.

Re: What happened with Firefox 25?

2013-10-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:04:59PM PDT, Hammer Attila wrote: Hi Luke, Usual I get this crash after I launched Firefox 25.0 and doed some heading level navigations and scrolling, for example following webpages: http://vakbarat.index.hu Ok, mind filing a bug in launchpad against at-spi2-core,

Re: What happened with Firefox 25?

2013-10-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:14:48AM PDT, Nolan Darilek wrote: FWIW, the upgrade went fine under 13.04, no problems whatsoever. That's my biggest criticism with only making LTS releases accessible. The accessibility infrastructure moves on and improves, and browsers rapidly acquire new and

Re: What happened with Firefox 25?

2013-10-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:13:41PM PDT, Hammer Attila wrote: Hi, I tried renaming my .mozilla folder with an another name to determine an old configuration preference producing this issue or not, and testing this issue an another machine. Unfortunately the .mozilla folder temporary rename

Re: Latest Ubuntu?

2013-07-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:29:47PM EST, Lenny wrote: Hi, I have heard of a Gnome remix, presumably on the latest Ubuntu? Or is the stock version of the latest Ubuntu the most accessible? I would recommend the GNOME based remix of Ubuntu 13.04, and I think Canonical also host it. I think you

Re: Build Orca on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-05-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:12:08AM EST, Cameron Wong wrote: Hello, I am trying to make Linux accessible for Chinese blind users. I have developed Ekho Chinese TTS (http://www.eguidedog.net/ekho.php) which works fine with Orca on Ubuntu 12.04. It would be nice to integrate this with

Re: A few questions concerning Ubuntu 13.04

2013-05-06 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:09:54AM EST, Robert Cole wrote: Hello, everyone. I have enjoyed using fedora over the past year or so, but I just do not have time to solve the big problems which I am having with the system. My wife and family who use my system have run into quite a number of

Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?

2013-04-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:46:39AM EST, Krishnakant Mane wrote: Hello all, I wish to know if the Ubuntu 13.04 gnome edition is worth using for a complete daily desktop? As far as I can understand from the responses to my previous queries, many suggest that Unity is still as good as 12.04.

Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?

2013-04-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:11:38AM EST, Dave Hunt wrote: Hi, When I used a daily build of Ubuntu GNOME 13.04, from 2 days ago, I found that wireless signal strength and battery status were accessible. In my Opensuse installation, which has GNOME Shell 3.6, signal strength is not read,

Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?

2013-04-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:16:43PM EST, Krishnakant Mane wrote: Still no confirmation for my query on some thing similar to Heads up display? Is such a feature there in Gnome 3.6? No it is not. I am surprised you use the HUD, because its not as accessible as it could be, and I find it gets in

Re: is Ubuntu 13.04 going to be any better?

2013-04-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:06:18PM EST, Kyle wrote: I'm just a little concerned that the GNOME edition is still running GNOME 3.6 + Orca 3.8, whereas Ubuntu 13.04 should be running GNOME 3.8 in its entirety. But maybe they will upgrade the GNOME edition to 3.8 after the Ubuntu release is

Re: new member

2013-03-24 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 04:13:30AM EST, rodney jackson wrote: I just installed Ubuntu 12.1 and I have been able to change settings and set up my printer from the network, but I can not figure out how to read the icons on the desktop I am still trying to figure out how to navigate with orca,

Re: Future Ubuntu phones and tablets: will be possible using this devices with Orca and other a11y tools?

2013-02-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 06:37:47AM GMT, Hammer Attila wrote: Hy, Canonical publicate some exciting articles with future awailable Ubuntu phones and tablets related. Some links: 1. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tablet The Ars Technica article this topic related:

Re: virtualbox in 12.04 refuses to install a guest

2013-02-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:16:19PM GMT, Christopher Chaltain wrote: Are you running VirtualBox on a 64-bit system? If so, you might have to install the 32-bit version of the QT accessibility library. I don't have the command handy, but I believe it's the i386 version of the qt-at-spi package.

Call for testing, at-spi2-core 2.6.3 for Ubuntu 12.10.

2013-02-04 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks, This is a call for testing of at-spi2-core 2.6.4 for 12.10 updates. The update is in quantal-proposed now, and needs testing so that it can be let thorugh to quantal-updates. Please read https://launchpad.net/bugs/1099275 for instructions on how to get the proposed upate and test.

Re: LibreOffice menu accessibility

2012-12-03 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:57:25AM EST, Nolan Darilek wrote: If I pull up the LibreOffice Writer to view a Word document, I can't seem to open any menus. Alt alone brings up the HUD. F10, as well as Alt-f, Alt-t, etc. do nothing. LibreOffice is one of those special case apps that requires

Re: Accessibility of kde

2012-11-11 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 03:31:24AM EST, Tom Masterson wrote: What is the current state of accessibility with kde? In either 12.04 or 12.10. I believe that there is still much to be done. Some individual applications range from working well to not working at all, but I believe the KDe shell is

Re: Orca is extremely broken

2012-11-06 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:28:01PM EST, Nolan Darilek wrote: How do I debug this? I get that accessibility of 12.10 isn't guaranteed, but it seems silly that it should work fine, then break utterly with no apparent cause. I'd be interested to know if this problem regularly appears after a

Re: UDS session on Accessibility

2012-10-27 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 04:56:02AM EST, Alan Bell wrote: The Ubuntu Developer Summit is where the development activities for the next 6 months are planned, the next one is next week in Copenhagen. There is an hour session dedicated to accessibility, this is currently scheduled to be on Monday

Re: Ubuntu 12.10

2012-10-25 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:48:38AM EST, sunny p o wrote: I have installed Ubuntu 12.10. Libreoffice 3.6 in this operating system have many problems. There fore This is not accessible for blinds. It is recommended that you use 12.04 LTS instead. The accessibility team does not have enough

Re: Accessible login stopped working

2012-10-15 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:04:32AM EST, Nolan Darilek wrote: As of a couple days ago, Orca stopped launching at my login screen. I don't immediately see anything in /var/log/lightdm when I grep for orca, other than an error from Oct. 11. Nothing from my most recent launches. I'm wondering

Re: inaccessible ubiquity

2012-10-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
I direct you all to http://launchpad.net/bugs/1056300. Thats where the bug was originally filed, and thats where the actino is. YOu may also be interested in following the progress of the upstrea GTK bug too. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685453 Luke -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Will be ship Quantal with Liblouis 2.5.0 or 2.5.1 release? Very important packaging a new version to works Orca with contracted braille feature in Ubuntu 12.10.

2012-10-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 01:06:22AM EST, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Alan Bell, le Fri 28 Sep 2012 08:58:27 +0100, a écrit : looks like this is 2.4.1 in Debian too http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/liblouis so this is more than a sync request from debian I have just uploaded

Re: 12.10 accessibility

2012-09-13 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:01:42AM EST, Christopher Chaltain wrote: I wouldn't consider 12.04 to be a release behind 12.10, especially if you're going to move up to 12.04.1 and 12.04.2 and so on. 12.04 is an LTS release and will be supported for five years. 12.10 will only be supported for 18

Re: compiling latest orca from master

2012-08-02 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 06:58:24AM EST, Guy Schlosser wrote: This is the exact same error message that I am getting. Exactly as Andy described, whenever I do autogen.sh on the orca folder it says that at-spi2 needs to be 2.5.2 but 2.4.2 is installed. I now have no speech since I compiled 2.5.2

Re: pulseaudio device chooser

2012-07-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:15:03PM EST, Peter Vágner wrote: Is there a way to do this with ubuntu 12.04 if yes can you give me some advices? It appears package padevchooser is not available for ubuntu 12.04. Use pavucontrol, padevchooser has long since been deprecated. Luke --

Re: [orca-list] Congratulations Joanie!

2012-06-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:40:55AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote: On your election to the GNOME Board of Directors! http://lwn.net/Articles/502910/ I must confess it makes me feel just a bit more hopeful for accessibility in this environment! grin This is wonderful news! Congratulations! LUke

Orca 3.4.2 available for testing in Ubuntu precise proposed.

2012-05-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks, Its that time again. I'm putting out a call for testing to help verify that orca 3.4.2 is in a fit state for general release in precise-updates. You can find more information about how to enable the precise-proposed repository in the launchpad bug for this update,

at-spi2-core 2.4.2 available for testing in Ubuntu precise proposed.

2012-05-16 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hey folks, As per Orca, at-spi2-core 2.4.2 is available for testing in Ubuntu precise proposed. Instructions on how to enable and test packages from precise-proposed are found in the relevant launchpad bug, https://launchpad.net/bugs/999404. Please test and leave feedback in the bug. Thanks.

Re: [orca-list] More on desktop shells, 2D vs 3D, and the future.

2012-05-10 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 03:49:35AM PDT, Andy B. wrote: In Windows, my graphics card is listed as Intel HD Graphics family video adaptor For some reason I can't get the exact model. What would need to be done to support 3d graphics? I'd need to know your CPU or motherboard modelsw and the age

Ubuntu 12.10 and beyond, Unity 2D will no longer be maintained.

2012-05-09 Thread Luke Yelavich
Hi all, So as some of you may have heard, Canonical has plans to stop maintaining unity 2D in future development cycles. This makes sense because spending double the resources trying to keep 2 desktops in feature parity is a lot of work, and those resources can be used much better elsewhere.

Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 12.10 and beyond, Unity 2D will no longer be maintained.

2012-05-09 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:58:25PM PDT, Alex Midence wrote: Hi, Luke, Do you or, for that matter, any of the other members on this list know if the terminal is accessible from Unity 3d? yes, GNOME terminal is accessible from Unity 3D, assuming the shortcut to load GNOME terminal is set and

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