Debian potential user, a question or two

Hi all. I feel as though I've traveled the operating system globe. I started out with Windows, then got a Mac when the Mac accessibility started making waves among the blind, around the MountLion/Maverics days. Then I got into Emacspeak, and since I used that so much, I thought Linux would be a goo

Re: Debian potential user, a question or two

Thanks for the tips, y'all. I got Debian installed, which was a joy to do. I used the net installer for the 64-bit version. I installed in VmWare, and it all went pretty good until I restarted. After the beep, I pressed s, but then, using an OCR addon for NVDA, I learned that the log in screen had

Re: espeak-ng is in!

Good. Now the Emacspeak server just has to be updated to work with NG, currently it's very sluggish, and NG will then be pretty established as eSpeak's successor. Devin Pratersent from Gmail. On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > So espeak-ng has landed in unstable

Re: Speech Dispatcher cutting off the end of phrases while using Flite

Oh wow, I didn't know flite worked with Orca! I sure hope this works in Fedora, which is what I'll be installing. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! On March 5, 2017 3:52:28 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, am_d...@fastmail.fm, on lun. 20 févr. 2017 12:06:26 -0500, wrote: I notice

Bug#857558: brltty: Brltty restarts when typing too fast on Vario Ultra

I've experienced this with Arch Linux, not with Fedora yet though. I thought it was just a random occurance, thanks for noticing that it's a bug. On 03/12/2017 09:31 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Package: brltty Version: 5.3 Severity: serious Justification: Makes computer unusable with Vario Ultr

Re: Fenrir 1.9.2 Released

Thanks for considering Braille support. If poss,bl, please send attributes of characters or words, if they have a braille equivalent, to the braille display. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile

Re: Fenrir 1.9.2 Released

I don't have Python skills either, but I have a braille display. I, however, don't have Linux rightnnow, just Mac and Windows. On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:46 PM john doe wrote: On 7/17/2018 7:01 PM, chrys wrote: > Howdy Devin, > > sure thing as soon as i figure how lol. i dont own an braille devic

Re: Fenrir 1.9.2 Released

With attributes, they include italics, bold, underline, things like that. Not too much, but things I would want to know about. They do depend on Braille table. Perhaps NVDA’s Braille implementation can show things possible. > On Jul 17, 2018, at 1:09 PM, ch...@linux-a11y.org wrote: > > Howdy Jo

Re: Fenrir 1.9.2 Released

I would be happy to help. I'll be on IRC tomorrow. Devin Prater On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:09 PM -0500, wrote: Howdy Devin, Ok thanks for the

Re: mbrola became free

Will it have the ability to be integrated into eSpeak? > On Oct 30, 2018, at 7:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm happy to announce that mbrola got free :) > > I have uploaded that new version to unstable. > For now there are no free voices, so it's still in contrib, but some > f

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

Along with the good, I’d also talk about the not so good, inaccessibility of QT apps, like Rosegarden, and even CLI applications, like RTV, and Gnu Typist, and the complexity of setting up CLI apps which can be made accessible, like Mutt, VIM, and Alpine. I’d also demonstrate Emacs with Emacspe

Re: How to reply and or post?

Replying on top helps a lot. Some visually impaired or blind people reply inline or on bottom, but I don’t know how they, themselves, read that kind of mail efficiently. > On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I am not visually impaired. > How do I format a post or reply to ac

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

I would definitely recommend the Mac. You’ll still be able to run free software, in an environment like Unix. Optionally, if you use the command line, check out https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr It isn’t as powerful as Fenrir or Speak, but it gets the job done wel

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

kickades från E-post <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> för > Windows 10 > > Från: Devin Prater <mailto:r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> > Skickat: den 8 november 2019 09:21 > Till: thom...@fastmail.cn <mailto:thom...@fastmail.cn> > Kopia: debian-accessibility@li

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

at 6:15 AM, thom...@fastmail.cn wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, at 3:21 AM, Devin Prater wrote: >> I would definitely recommend the Mac. You’ll still be able to run free >> software, in an environment like Unix. Optionally, if you use the command >> line, che

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

Thank you for your fair, calm message. Yes, Linux accessibility is at a crisis point, but we do have four years to change this, even make things better than they have ever been. Now, that doesn’t mean we should just wait until three years have passed, then jump to action, but we don’t have to wo

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

something. > On Nov 10, 2019, at 5:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 10 nov. 2019 12:33:17 +0100, a ecrit: >> Devin Prater, le dim. 10 nov. 2019 02:46:51 -0600, a ecrit: >>> if GTK4 folks say it’s Orca’s fault, put an issue on Orca, and >>

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

This is very good. A roadmap will keep them accountable. Thank you so much for your work. > On Nov 10, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL > wrote: > > > Le 10/11/2019 à 15:23, Devin Prater a écrit : >> Yes, this is true. I forget that she is the only active develop

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

It’s okay, probably the best Nuance has, but they’ll need to do more than just go one sentence at a time in order to be “conversational.” I think what they mean by that is that the voice sounds smooth and pretty, for their actual customers now, the automated phone software market. Don’t be surpr

Re: New Nuance Conversational Voice

onversations occur in paragraphs, > even if it's a one word paragraph, like "Good Grief, Charlie Brown." > > Thanks, > > David > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:16 AM Devin Prater wrote: >> >> It’s okay, probably the best Nuance has, but they’ll nee

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

At least if a Braille Display is connected, accessibility resources should be enabled. Also, I don’t think desktops and such should have an accessibility toggle. If it doesn’t bother the visuals, accessibility setting for the desktop GUI itself, not Orca and such, should always be set to on. Tha

Re: RSGames client on Debian 10

Try this instead, not sure how updated it is. https://github.com/stormdragon2976/tintin-rsgames > On Apr 24, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Vojtěch šmiro wrote: > > > Hello. > > Is some way to run rsg in Debian? This game is for Windows, linux and Mac. > But linux version is old, they instruct how to pla

Re: RSGames client on Debian 10

I mean, this is Linux. If you want dedicated first-party support, then Windows is the better platform. We always need workarounds. That is the Linux way for us. > On Apr 24, 2020, at 11:37 AM, Vojtěch šmiro wrote: > > They are writing their names on their website, but Terminal says me cannot

Re: [orca-list] accessibility bug after quitting a qt application

Yeah, it's been here for a while in Arch. If you go to the desktop immediately after quitting the program, you're good. You can also call an Orca dialog, like Insert + H, then F2 to show keyboard commands. On 2/22/21 7:10 PM, Jérémy Prego via orca-list wrote: > Hello, > > Since the last update of

Debian Newbie

tter time with an actually helpful distro and community. So, any tips or getting-started info? Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com gemini://tilde.pink/~devinprater/

Re: Christian beliebers here using Debian

s a Python script, so requires Python and a few dependencies, like Beautifulsoup. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:12 PM David Hoff Jr wrote: > I believe there is a bit of misunderstanding here. A Swedish person > trying to use the English language h

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

into, and what they're doing. If not, they'll ask for help on choosing a distribution. Also, for any XKCD references, search for them on explainxkcd.org. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 9:57 AM Jordan Livesey wrote: > I don't have to tell you this

Re: Fwd: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

idn't know about screenrc, but I'll look into that. I'm coming to love the man command. Before, I'd just used Info, but now I know the value of man. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 8:44 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Adding the word "exclusive

Re: web-based, distributed, accessible applications (was LibreFaso)

For me, Python is pretty easy since Emacspeak reads indentation. Reading manpages is also easy because in Emacs one can move from heading to heading. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 2:38 AM Rich Morin wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2022, at 00:16, Jeffery Mewtamer

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

FOSS projects, and big corporations (corpses) that FOSS doesn't have to only be for people who are privileged enough to have all senses and use of their bodies and minds. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 5:46 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > D

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

So, the Terminal issue was fixed some time ago, so we don't have to worry about that. That was just an example of a bug which *has* happened before. I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:52 AM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

like Android phones, don't support it, while others, like iOS systems, have... unfinished support for it. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 6:34 AM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le mar. 22 mars 2022 11:51:43 +0100, a ecrit: > > If it add

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

Gas is rather expensive these days. :D How would you propose we improve the emotional response? I've written plenty of blog posts on write.as/devinprater (some on other operating systems but a good bit about Linux). I'm not very good at making videos, but I can write and edit. De

Re: On Braille and Linux

Smart phones use touchscreen braille input to make typing faster. Devin Prater. This attempts to bring this to Linux smart phones and such like that. I'd work on getting Orca working on it first before working on a text input method, but that's just me lol. r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On

Re: On Braille and Linux

igation to Orca as well. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 12:08 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Devin Prater, le dim. 03 avril 2022 12:02:59 -0500, a ecrit: > > I'd work on getting Orca working on it first before working on a text > > input method, >

Re: Improved choice selection in speech-enabled Debian installer

I tried it in a VM, and it works very well. Thanks so much for all your work! Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 4:48 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > I have improved the choice selection in the speech-enabled Debian > installer, please give it a tr