How to use Orca after completing installation of Ubuntu Jaunty official version to A hard drive?
Dear core developers of accessibility support in Ubuntu Jaunty. I would like to ask You, how to use Orca after completing The installation of this distro to A hard drive. I used installation program, which i activated from A live CD. Unfortunately, after installation program reboot my computer, when i hear The login audio prompt, i typed my user name, password. The Ubuntu welcome sound has been plaied. But i have probably made a mistake. I pressed ALT+F2 and i executed The Orca command. Orca has been started, but Espeak started to speak abnormally fast, and Orca is not usable. This is also happening, if I booted a live CD and if i did not activated The accessibility feature by pressing F5 and 3 number at The ubuntu boot screen. The core developers of installation routines probably has forgot to enable support of Orca. This is working fine, when activating accessibility feature at The boot screen. But not after finishing installation of Ubuntu Jaunty. I performed The installation when booting from A live Cd with accessibility features enabled. Please, does somebody know, how to solve this issue? ANd i would like to openheardly congratulate Your development team, because Ubuntu is now really usable and stable with Orca and Espeak. This distro, Ubuntu Jaunty is very probably The solution for visually impaired users. You had to probably rewrite some portion of Espeak, may be, that You modified portaudio.h and audio server, which is now being used by Gnomespeech and Espeak, may be, that Alsa, Pulse audio? If it is Pulseaudio, i would like to apologize Mr LUke Yelavich, that i constantly pleased him to not use this audio server. You are making ammazing work. I think, that The system is so stable with Espeak because of complex changes, also Gnome developers rewritten GNomespeech and many Gnome components, core developers of Ubuntu may be also changed some parts of Gnome, source codes of audio server, which is being used, may be that also parts of Espeak source code, portaudio.h. I executed The installer from A desktop icon. Or had i execute this installation routine from a boot screen, by first enabling accessibility support, and then to choose The install item? I AM helpless. I think, that i will be forced to reinstall Ubuntu again. The kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: How to use Orca after completing installation of Ubuntu Jaunty official version to A hard drive?
Hello! I would like to ask You, how to use Orca after completing The installation of this distro to A hard drive. I used installation program, which i activated from A live CD. Unfortunately, espeak is broken when working through pulseaudio in ubuntu jaunty. i hope that developers will fix it as fast as possible. But for now, you can use a workaround: 1. run gnome-terminal (alt+f2, then type gnome-terminal) 2. type the following: touch ~./.pulse_a11y_nostart 3. reboot your system. -- regards, Lex mailto:l...@onm.su -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Ubuntu Jaunty and Orca
There is very strange aspect of this situation. When user is activating accessibility features at The boot screen, Orca is speaking normally and fluently with Espeak. But when user is triing to activate Orca without enabling those features, Espeak is speaking very fast and is making strange noice. My opinion is, that experts from development team solved issues with Pulse audio, because why Orca is able to speak while booting to A live Cd with accessibility support enabled? And why orca is able to speak even while activating accessibility features at The boot screen and when user is activating install option from a boot screen? My opinion is, that core developers of installation program did not included enabling assistive technology support, so may be, that sighted person would help me to enable this support from a Gnome menu, may be that from preferences menu? If assistive technology support is enabled, The problem is in The HAL and used audio playback. I had experience, that while booting a Ubuntu intrepid live CD, the used default sound output has been different, than The sound output, which is being used when Intrepid is being installed. It is somethink related to HAL. So The solution would be to configure The Jaunty future installation to use The same sound access algorithms, which are used when booting Ubuntu Jaunty live CD by activating accessibility features at The boot screen. But now, Ubuntu live Cd is working better than with Speech dispatcher, without crashes and latencyes while pressing ALT+F2. Core developers also solved issues related to synaptic and other administrative tasks, so visually impaired users or other users of At-spi compatible assistive technology can use those tasks without using gnome-terminal. Even Wubi is using very strange names for themes, so user is confusing, which theme is related to Orca. Braille theme is also causing problems, atleast in The older Jaunty live build. It is very sad and i would like to please core developers to make a update to The Ubuntu repository. Because now, Orca, Espeak and root applications and installation program issues are gone forever, Espeak is working very stable, so why this new shadow effect? Or this effect is only presented on new live CDS? I did not known, that Ubuntu Jaunty has been officially released, so i downloaded Live CD which could be downloaded yesterday from www.cdimages.ubuntu.com Sorry mr Yellavich, that i AM intruding You again, but i AM so close The highly stable Linux distribution, and new complex programmers issue is blocking me. So thank You for any help. With kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
