Re: Making Firefox Speak on the Mac

2009-06-14 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis 

On 13/6/09 16:50, Jane Jordan (GMail) wrote:
> Can someone re-send instructions on what I need to do to get Firefox
> speaking?

One possibility is WebAnywhere: http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/

The other possibility is the Fire Vox addon that turns Firefox into a 
self-voicing application:

http://firevox.clcworld.net/

Here's some instructions I put together a while back for installing Fire 
Vox.

Make sure VoiceOver is on throughout.

First download and install the current version of Firefox in your 
Applications folder.

Next download the FireVox add-ons bundle. From the terminal, run:

fetch http://firevox.clcworld.net/clc-4-tts_bundle_v4.0_release.xpi

Firefox allows you to have one or more user profiles. Create a FireVox 
profile for Firefox. From the terminal, run:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -CreateProfile firevox

Next run Firefox, telling it to load in the foreground with the new 
profile and open the add-on installer. From the terminal, run:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -foreground -P 
firevox `pwd`/clc-4-tts_bundle_v4.0_release.xpi

Note the inline use of the pwd command to get the directory of the Fire 
Vox bundle:

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pwd.1.html

VoiceOver should now announce you are in a Mozilla Firefox window. This 
will be the add-on installer, but no information about it is exposed to 
Firefox. There are two buttons in the installer window "Cancel" and 
"Install". "Install" is automatically focused. However, for security 
reasons, the button is disabled for a short timeout. Count to 5 to 
ensure the button is activable, then press Enter to install the add-on.

Now count to 5 again to give the add-on time to install. You should now 
be in a window called "Add-ons" showing installed addons, but VoiceOver 
can't read anything other than the window title and window controls.

Firefox needs to restart to enable the newly installed add-ons. Press 
Command Q to quite Firefox.

Now start Firefox again with your profile. From the terminal, run:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P firevox

With VoiceOver enabled, you should now be able to explore the Firefox 
window and interface. Fire Vox is using Mac TTS for speech output.

There's a guide to the command line options for the Firefox binary at:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Command_Line_Options

Hope that helps.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

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Re: Making Firefox Speak on the Mac

2009-06-13 Thread Ignasi Cambra 

Firefox is only accessible if you use the Firevox plug-in, which  
provides very limited functionality. Unfortunately it is not  
accessible with VO as of now.
On Jun 13, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Jane Jordan (GMail) wrote:

>
> Can someone re-send instructions on what I need to do to get Firefox
> speaking?  Tbhere is a web client out there for second Life that  
> runs in
> FireFox, and one thing they want to do is see if it will be
> cross-platform.  I read about it, but it was so long ago I have lost  
> the
> instructions.
> Any help with this greatly appreciated.
> Jane
>
>
> >


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Re: Making Firefox Speak on the Mac

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Huckabay 

Good day. Mabey you coold look back in the arkive's for the list and  
It may be in there.  Just one thing to do mabey. This is if no one  
get's back to your question right away.
On 13-Jun-09, at 11:50 AM, Jane Jordan (GMail) wrote:

>
> Can someone re-send instructions on what I need to do to get Firefox
> speaking?  Tbhere is a web client out there for second Life that  
> runs in
> FireFox, and one thing they want to do is see if it will be
> cross-platform.  I read about it, but it was so long ago I have lost  
> the
> instructions.
> Any help with this greatly appreciated.
> Jane
>
>
> >


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Making Firefox Speak on the Mac

2009-06-13 Thread Jane Jordan (GMail) 

Can someone re-send instructions on what I need to do to get Firefox 
speaking?  Tbhere is a web client out there for second Life that runs in 
FireFox, and one thing they want to do is see if it will be 
cross-platform.  I read about it, but it was so long ago I have lost the 
instructions.
Any help with this greatly appreciated.
Jane


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