Installing ubuntu 9.04 with braille support
Hi all, I'm planning to install ubuntu 9.04 in my laptop. I'd like to ask you if it's possible to use the alternate disk with text mode installer using brltty support. I remember that it was possible in ubuntu 7.04 but it didn't work in version 8.10. what is the situation at the moment? Could you give me some indications please? Is there another way to install it autonomously using braille or speech support? thank you very much in advance regards, Sauro -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Installing ubuntu 9.04 with braille support
Dear syr, It is possible to install latest official release of Ubuntu Jaunty by using braille device. The condition is, that Your model of braille display is supported by The Brltty application. The braille devices connected throught The serial port will require special command line parameters. For important information about those situations, study The Brltty home page and The brltty documentation. http://mielke.cc/brltty Brltty will be able to automatically display correctly characters on Your braille display according to The installed language. But may be, that You will have to install special language updates. I experienced crashes of Ubuntu, white screen displaied after performing those language updates. So i had to do it for more than six times to have success. For visually impaired, it will be necessary to perform some administrative tasks outside running Gnome, on A console, i will try to find safe way for terminating Gnome environment and to work with a console. Console screen reader, Yasr and Brltty is awaylable for those situations. And now The procedure. I did not tested alternate installation Cd, but i tested this procedure with official release of Ubuntu Jaunty, not with latest daily live build. So follow my instructions. Insert Your burned CD with Ubuntu Jaunty official release. Boot this CD, when Cd will stop working, press Enter key. Then press F5 function key Then press number 3, not on Your numeric keypad. Press Enter key. Press down arrow key for once. Press enter again and patiently wait, until You will hear install frame message, not press keys when welcome to Orca message will be speaked to You. Then press CTRL+ALT+F2 Type sudo su Press Enter brltty Press enter Or brltty with command line options, which are specific for Your model of braille display. And press Enter again. If Your braille device is USB compatible, Brltty should recognize it automatically. When you will be able to read characters on Your braille device, press CTRL+ALT+F7 You will be back in to installation program for Ubuntu Jaunty. Press insert+space For recalling orca preferences dialog box. Navigate to The OK button. Orca should after several seconds start to communicate with YOur braille device. If You will not want to have speech support, simply disable it by pressing INsert+S. This procedure is i think very safe and would not cause any crashes during installation process. Please let me know, if this procedure will be usable for YOu. The kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Fw: Accessibility Groups
#:¬Þ Want a Holiday Check out our many houses on offer, go on you know you want to. Down with all the other intresting things that are at the end of e-mails http:\\www.villas-la-miranda.com --- On Mon, 18/5/09, Tom Lloyd thomasll...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Tom Lloyd thomasll...@yahoo.com Subject: Accessibility Groups To: orca-l...@gnome.org Date: Monday, 18 May, 2009, 4:53 PM Hi All, I have been moving house and knee deep in elbow grease without internet. I now have broadband and spare time to start working on the SAPI project again. As the project is still in its infancy I have found a small following of people interested but no one really helping on development. People with skills in: Speech-dispatcher modules SAPI , XML C commandline tools There is no one else helping at the moment. If people could suggest forums, groups, communities that might be interested in this project could you forward a message on for me or suggest the groups to me directly, not to the main group as this a slightly off topic. I do not know of many groups so any information would be great. Message to forward... Open SAPI - http://code.google.com/p/open-sapi/ A new open source text to speech project needs your help. The Open-SAPI project has bought the Microsoft Speech Engine into Linux and any other operating systems supported by WINE - http://www.winehq.org/. Currently we have a working example in Ubuntu using Orca, Speech Dispatcher and Gnome. Instructions for installation / development fron SVN can be found on the main project page. Any help, feedback or suggestion would be greatly appreciated at the discussion group - http://groups.google.com/group/open-sapi Thanks all, Tom -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
No Espeak after upgrading to Jaunty
Hi List! After upgrading an installation of Intrepid to Jaunty, Espeak no longer works. I can run Orca with Festival and can run Yasr in a terminal. Thanks for any suggestions, Dave Hunt -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
