Hello, Question 1) I've been messing around trying Screen Readers and different settings because several of my blind and low vision friends are very interested in my recent conversion to Ubuntu (and I've added KDE) and would love to be able to at least give it or some other version of Linux a serious try for themselves. I'm fully sighted but I liked to use TTS to check my web page editing for two chapters of the Pennsylvania Council of the Blind and I got fed up with M$ updates me$$ing my computer up and when the groups heard about it, several of them, especially those on one committee who works on their web site would love to access the several programming programs they've heard about that's available in Linux, but are they easily accessible only for the sighted?
So far, I've found Orca to be clumsy, but I'm sure it's my settings attempts. I could use some setup advice from anyone who uses it. Festival just won't work. Again, help! Emacs won't work. I'm doing something wrong but can't figure it out. Question 2) Regularly, but not every time, volume is muted when I start my computer. I'm assuming it's from some of the settings I've been messing around with regarding the TTS programs. I'm sure these two problems are related. When I get straightened out, I'll ask about different voices. I haven't yet tried the Screen Magnifiers but I'll let that question ride for later too. Hope you all had a grand Thanksgiving! Blaine -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
