It is time for me to depart.

It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my departure from free and open source software development. GNU/Linux and free and open source software development has been a part of my life for well over a decade, some high points being my employment at Canonical for

Re: Orca autostart problem

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:11:17AM AEST, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ok, it seems there is also incompatibility with lightdm. I wonder whether this linked bug is the culpret. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1670933 Luke -- Please check out my Patreon campaign and spread the word.

Re: gnome-orca version policy?

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:45:11PM AEST, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Ubuntu's orca has 2 extra patches: one for better Unity support and > one to use gsettings for new installs. Otherwise, the a11y packages > are in sync now between Debian and Ubuntu, at least in the Debian VCS. The GSettings support

Re: updating gcc to 5.0

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 08:39:29AM AEST, Mark Peveto wrote: > Hi all, > I need to update my gcc from 4.9 to 5.0. I'm told I have hte latest version, > but that's not true. How do I get 5.0? Why do you think you need to update gcc? Updating gcc is not as simple as updating other packages like

Re: The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:26:58AM AEST, Sam Hartman wrote: > Would you mind giving a breakdown of the top five projects you tend to > spend time working on? Linux accessibility for the blind is fairly > broad and. Sure, I understand. I left that out of the campaign, because I am trying to

The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

Hi all. I am writing to let you all know of my newly launched crowd funding campaign to continue to work full time on Linux accessibility development. Please spread the word if you are able, it would be much appreciated. https://patreon.com/lukefoss If any of you are also able to support

Re: does libttspico-data, libttspico0, libttspico-utils available on debian?

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 03:54:58PM AEDT, Amirudin wrote: > Hi, > > So, for debian users, does these packages available on debian? Yes, you need to enable the contrib repository, and no I haven't tried it on Debian myself. Luke

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

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:03:45AM AEDT, Devin Prater wrote: > 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! If Fedora builds the flite module, then once this patch makes it into the

Re: gnome-speech maintenance

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:34:59AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote: > If the gnome team doesn't want to maintain the package, the > accessibility team can take it, yes. In the mean time, we should really see about porting dasher to Speech Dispatcher. Luke

Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:37:05PM AEDT, Colomban Wendling wrote: > Le 22/01/2017 à 19:02, am_d...@fastmail.fm a écrit : > > […] > > I did find a solution to my problem. In the > > Orca preferences by changing the option from default speech synthesizer > > to espeak-ng on the Voice tab things work

Re: speech-dispatcher and RC bugs

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 08:48:10AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote: > That being said, I find #838665 a bit abusive. I actually had to > re-read several times "software that imports all installed Python > modules": how can that be a good idea?! Now, that being said, AIUI > speechd_conf is not a

Re: Splitting out the speech-dispatcher flite module into separate package.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:20:38AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Why not, indeed. We could then put them in speech-dispatcher's > recommends or suggests as we see fit. I guess we want espeak-ng as > recommends, and possibly others as suggests? That sounds perfectly reasonable. I'll take care of

Splitting out the speech-dispatcher flite module into separate package.

Hey folks. In Ubuntu we have the flite Speech Dispatcher module split out into a separate package, since at the time it was done, we were trying to shoot for fitting into a CD footprint. This is no longer something we try to do, but so far as I know, espeak supports more languages out of the

Re: espeak-ng

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 08:50:43AM AEDT, Doug Smith wrote: > Ok, I just received espeak-ng over here and I wonder how to use it. I have > both espeak and espeak-ng on here because the install script didn't take it > off. Now, I have uncommented the add module line in the >

Re: Bug#833950: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#833950: libasound2: brltty-espeak stops working with 1.1.2-1

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 08:18:15AM AEST, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Luke Yelavich, on Fri 12 Aug 2016 08:04:56 +1000, wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 03:40:03AM AEST, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Control: tags +1 pending > > > > > > * Sebastian Humenda

Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#833950: libasound2: brltty-espeak stops working with 1.1.2-1

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 03:40:03AM AEST, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Control: tags +1 pending > > * Sebastian Humenda [2016-08-10 20:30 +0200]: > > > Package: libasound2 > > Version: 1.1.2 > > Severity: serious > > Tags: patch > > Justification: breaks system for blind users

Re: MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 06:33:49AM AEST, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mario Lang, on Sun 22 May 2016 21:56:00 +0200, wrote: > > What I am trying to say is, if a desktop wants to provide Accessibility > > that is actually useful to users, they will have to invest more time > > into it then they

Re: espeakup (actually espeak) and pulseaudio / portaudio [Was: espeakup_0.71-20_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 04:32:00AM AEDT, Samuel Thibault wrote: > As I said, espeak (and thus espeakup) should already be trying to > use pulseaudio by default. If that's not the case, then it's where > investigation needs to be done. One way to force espeak to use PortAudio is to disable

Re: Pluseaudio, speech-dispatcher, and console + graphical screen readers

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 05:36:44AM AEST, Sam Hartman wrote: > So, for myself, I'd really like to be able to use pulseaudio. Without > pulseaudio it's very hard to use bluetooth audio. > To make that work well, what would need to happen is that we'd need to > get speech dispatcher to not hold

Re: RFS: eviacam

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:36:47AM AEST, Cesar Mauri wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to upload eviacam again to mentors site and appears to be > lintian clean. > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/eviacam Hey folks. We in the Ubuntu desktop team have been contacted by Cesar once again about

Re: Enabling accessibility stack by default in Qt4/Qt5

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:52:46AM AEST, Mario Lang wrote: > If we are talking about Qt on framebuffers (how cool!), I doubt that it > would be practical to use if it already "worked". After all, Orca would > still need to run in a conventional X session, wouldn't it? And d-bus > would need to

Re: Speech-dispatcher: do any modules/backends support playing sound-icons ?

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 06:53:45AM AEST, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: Hello Sander, Thursday, May 21, 2015, 10:40:24 PM, you wrote: Sunday, May 17, 2015, 2:18:38 PM, you wrote: Sunday, May 17, 2015, 10:30:31 AM, you wrote: Sunday, May 17, 2015, 12:55:55 AM, you wrote: -BEGIN

Re: Export gail by default?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 06:12:03AM AEDT, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, When one doesn't want to use Orca in gnome, but in MATE or another DE, he needs to export gail and GTK_MODULES variables. Does this export has consequences for other users (especially GUI users)? If no, couldn't we

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 release

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:36:12AM AEST, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, cstrobel, le Mon 18 Aug 2014 22:11:54 -0400, a écrit : I installed Jessie using a Braille display. Debian-Jessie-DI-b1-amd64-net inst.iso I tried to get Orca going like this. Ah. Normally Orca should automatically

Re: Using Orca in KDE

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 06:40:26AM EST, Odd Martin Baanrud wrote: Hello, I want to test Orca in KDE. KDE so far as I know, is currently based on QT 4.8, with development of KDE moving to 5 in the future. QT 4.8 Linux accessibility support is rather bare bones. Some things do work, but many

Re: How to change GSettings from command-line?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:43:57AM EST, Jason White wrote: It used to work without any manual intervention, and I understand it still does in some distributions, so it might be useful to find out how they handle the situation. Ultimately, speech-dispatcher needs a shutdown after timeout mode,

Re: solution to the problem of orca and gecko not working in non-gnome environment

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:34:00AM EST, am_d...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014, at 07:21 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net (2014-03-10): I think I've found it with a quick search of the Mozilla repository. mozilla/accessible/src/atk/Platform.cpp, line

Bug#717768: gconf B-D is obsolete

tags 717768 pending thanks On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:47:09AM EST, Iain Lane wrote: Looks like the gconf BD is left over from old times. Apparently (according to doko) this causes problems with bootstrapping due to a loop with gtk+3.0. Could it be dropped? (Done in Ubuntu already) Thanks!

Bug#714314: libatk-bridge2.0-0: undefined symbol: atspi_is_initialized

tags 714314 pending thanks On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 06:22:09AM EST, Nye Liu wrote: Package: libatk-bridge2.0-0 Version: 2.9.3-1 Severity: important Thanks for your report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#707925: Makefile overrides compiler flags from the environment

tags 707925 pending thanks On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:03:27AM EST, Jason White wrote: Here's a simpler patch for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#707925: espeak: Makefile overrides compiler flags from the environment

tags 707925 pending thanks On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 06:27:47PM EST, Jason White wrote: Package: espeak Version: 1.47.07-1 Severity: normal This is the latest Espeak package from the Git repository (not yet uploaded). The makefile overrides CXXFLAGS, hence the flags supplied by

Bug#707925: espeak: Makefile overrides compiler flags from the environment

Oh right, wasn't really paying attension, just popped them both in. Will do, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: At-spi and The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 09:41:38AM EST, Jason White wrote: I was also thinking of the larger question, though, of whether AT-SPI 1 and the packages which depend on it are still usable in a Gnome 3 environment and, if not, whether they should be removed entirely. They'll have to be migrated to

Re: xfce accessibility

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:24:55AM EST, Samuel Thibault wrote: I forgot to mention: as I'm not an Orca user, I have no idea whether xfce is actually usable with what is currently accessible. I can only say that it does technically work. This reflects testing I have done in the past. Its worth

Sonic packaging now in pkg-a11y git.

Hi folks, With the change in espeak to use the libsonic library from the sonic package, and since Ubuntu is currently carrying a few fixes to the sonic package, I decided to move the packaging of this package to the pkg-a11y git repositories on alioth, with Bill's blessing. There are currently

Re: Demande pour rejoindre le projet Debian Accessibility Packages

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:13:19AM EST, Samuel Thibault wrote: I'm wondering. It was proposed to create a tts team, maybe that would be a better idea than moving festival to pkg-a11y. Considering how many people maintain speech syntheses for various reasons completely outside accessibility,

Re: gnome-terminal 3.0 not accessible

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 07:08:43PM EST, Kenny Hitt wrote: Hi. Just got upgraded to gnome-terminal 3.0. As the subject says, it isn't accessible. Will this problem be fixed when the rest of at-spi2 gets into unstable? If not, any suggestions for an accessible terminal in Gnome 3? For now,

Re: Missing ~/.local directory

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:09:33AM EST, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: Greetings, I just installed Debian Squeeze on a machine using the espeakup installer. It worked very well. However, there is no ~/.local directory. The orca configuration files are in the ~/.orca directory. I

Speakup dkms package.

Hi all I have recently created a dkms variant of the speakup-source package, which I intend to put into Ubuntu maverick. For those who are unaware, dkms is a system designed to automatically build external kernel modules at package install time. For more info, install dkms and read the manpage.

Updating at-spi2 packaging.

Hi all Since Ubuntu will posibly be making at-spi2 the default for Maverick, I am currently working on updating the at-spi2 packages to the 0.3.1 release. If there is anybody else currently working on this, please get in touch so we can coordinate our efforts. Luke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: yelp in Gnome 2.28

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:51:51AM EST, Bill Cox wrote: Thanks for the tip! I had not found any current (newer than 2008) discussion on the net about webkit accessibility. However, until this important work is done, it's important for developers to know to hold off on switching to webkit.

Re: Autostarting orca for a particular user?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mario On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:54:00AM EST, Mario Lang wrote: Can anyone refresh my memories how autostart of orca for a particular user is exactly done? I know there are several ways to hack it, but what is it that the assistive technology

Re: Autostarting orca for a particular user?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:55:33AM EST, Willie Walker wrote: I believe the gconf key still applies to the recent GNOME as well. I've contacted some folks more in the know to see what their opinion is on how this should be done. My opinion is

Re: Software speech in Debian installer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:15:15PM BST, Samuel Thibault wrote: And now that I'm thinking about it again, it's not only the soft synth, but also sound drivers that would need to go into the debian installer images... Not only that, but the alsa

Re: Orca, liblouis and contracted braille support

with any progress made. - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH0wlVjVefwtBjIM4RAtysAKC9ttuBIkJuHMTx2U22qKLB+IjcUgCfdMEw

Re: Cepstral/swift and gnome-speech

using 0.4.12 with swift? I have a copy of both 3, and 4. I'll try it with Ubuntu and gnome-speech later today, and report back. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: gdm and orca?

similar functionality in Ubuntu. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gnome-orca in unstable

in Ubuntu, but I don't know what Debian do to their openoffice package, so its just trial and error at this point I would guess. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: Problems running autogen.sh

PROGTEST.M4 from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file. Have you got the gnome-common package installed? Just about all GNOME projects I've downloaded from svn/CVS, have needed that package. hth -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

code). I suppose that leaves Yasr as the best alternative unless someone fixes Speakup. Yes indeed. Unfortunately, the primary developer of SPeakup has a works for me attitude, and won't include most things unless someone sends him the patches. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE