Re: Installing Linux, was Re: introduction
Before using orca --replace, you can also try restarting Orca with the key sequence alt+super+s. On 17/03/16 10:30, Jude DaShiell wrote: I had to do that with a mate install and it worked. I also found once a system is installed when orca stops talking hitting alt-f2 then typing orca --replace also works. Lots better than a three-finger salute. On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:25:40 From: Glenn / Lenny To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Installing Linux, was Re: introduction Hi All, I have found that when Orca stops talking during an install of Linux, I can make it work by threatening to exit with alt + F4 Then I press escape to cancel the cancellation of the install, and it is back to talking. I hope this helps others. Glenn-- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:18:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: Daniel Crone , ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: introduction Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and unity don't like each other very much. I was able to enter my gmail credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet. I may have to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome will probably crash the computer. Inside mate to get to a terminal you want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than gnome-terminal. The mate-terminal also works under unity. Firefox works pretty well from my limited use of it so far. The chromium app isn't accessible for orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now at least. Emacs is available and probably very accessible as a work environment which should help cover any of libreoffice's shortcomings. Thunderbird is easily crashed over here, but then again I'm a touch typist and have little tollerance for keyboard latency unless I get some kind of audio indication that something I've done is being worked. Some clicks from the speaker would help in this respect but I don't know that any form of Linux offers this feature that can be enabled yet. More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through this system. On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28 From: Daniel Crone To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: introduction Hello one and all. My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems through the years. I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try. I am very new to linux. Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally blind user, new to linux. I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times, and the installer never finished. But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow. From the dvd, sonar worked very well. I hope ubuntu will be equally good. So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the ubuntu team. I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit each other. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Installing Linux, was Re: introduction
Hi All, I have found that when Orca stops talking during an install of Linux, I can make it work by threatening to exit with alt + F4 Then I press escape to cancel the cancellation of the install, and it is back to talking. I hope this helps others. Glenn-- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:18:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: Daniel Crone , ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: introduction Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and unity don't like each other very much. I was able to enter my gmail credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet. I may have to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome will probably crash the computer. Inside mate to get to a terminal you want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than gnome-terminal. The mate-terminal also works under unity. Firefox works pretty well from my limited use of it so far. The chromium app isn't accessible for orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now at least. Emacs is available and probably very accessible as a work environment which should help cover any of libreoffice's shortcomings. Thunderbird is easily crashed over here, but then again I'm a touch typist and have little tollerance for keyboard latency unless I get some kind of audio indication that something I've done is being worked. Some clicks from the speaker would help in this respect but I don't know that any form of Linux offers this feature that can be enabled yet. More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through this system. On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28 > From: Daniel Crone > To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: introduction > > Hello one and all. > My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems through the > years. > I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try. > I am very new to linux. > Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally blind user, > new to linux. > I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times, and the > installer never finished. > But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow. > From the dvd, sonar worked very well. > I hope ubuntu will be equally good. > So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the ubuntu team. > I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit each other. > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Installing Linux, was Re: introduction
I had to do that with a mate install and it worked. I also found once a system is installed when orca stops talking hitting alt-f2 then typing orca --replace also works. Lots better than a three-finger salute. On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:25:40 From: Glenn / Lenny To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Installing Linux, was Re: introduction Hi All, I have found that when Orca stops talking during an install of Linux, I can make it work by threatening to exit with alt + F4 Then I press escape to cancel the cancellation of the install, and it is back to talking. I hope this helps others. Glenn-- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:18:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: Daniel Crone , ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: introduction Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and unity don't like each other very much. I was able to enter my gmail credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet. I may have to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome will probably crash the computer. Inside mate to get to a terminal you want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than gnome-terminal. The mate-terminal also works under unity. Firefox works pretty well from my limited use of it so far. The chromium app isn't accessible for orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now at least. Emacs is available and probably very accessible as a work environment which should help cover any of libreoffice's shortcomings. Thunderbird is easily crashed over here, but then again I'm a touch typist and have little tollerance for keyboard latency unless I get some kind of audio indication that something I've done is being worked. Some clicks from the speaker would help in this respect but I don't know that any form of Linux offers this feature that can be enabled yet. More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through this system. On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28 From: Daniel Crone To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: introduction Hello one and all. My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems through the years. I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try. I am very new to linux. Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally blind user, new to linux. I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times, and the installer never finished. But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow. From the dvd, sonar worked very well. I hope ubuntu will be equally good. So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the ubuntu team. I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit each other. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
