Gnopernicus, brltty and debian

2006-08-07 Thread Tom Masterson
tty at the console. Any ideas of what might be wrong and how to solve it? I followed the instructions on the brltty site for setting up gnome. Tom Masterson ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.o

Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian

2006-08-07 Thread Tom Masterson
I get a couple of erro/warnings about not being able to find a font they show in the log as warnings more than errors. Other than that no errors. Tom On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Don't you have error messages from Gnopernicus on the console where you > started startx,

Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Masterson
it further today. Note that none of my colleagues have worked with screen reader technology before so I am having to do some interpretation of what they are reading. Tom On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, remus draica wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:15 -0700, Tom Masterson wrote: > > Hi Tom, &

Re: Gnopernicus, brltty and debian

2006-08-10 Thread Tom Masterson
e are searching for a different one (if we have one) but at this point I must rely on braille and/or sighted help. Tom > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:06:46 +0300 > From: remus draica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tom Masterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Gnome accessibilit

Re: accessible routers

2007-01-28 Thread Tom Masterson
I have a older Cisco dsl router which I can access via telnet and from there it is just a text interface. Tom On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Cody Hurst wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if anyone has suggestions for accessible routers. > like dsl routers. When I say accessible I mean that the configura

Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-30 Thread Tom Masterson
I also prefer a screen reader to self voicing. Whenever possible I will choose braille over speech. Tom On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > Personally I preffer the screen reader approach over self voicing apps. > Using the screen reader lets me do things like change > rate, vo

Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

2008-10-24 Thread Tom Masterson
Here is my understanding of this thread that I have been quietly watchig from the sidelines. WHat is being asked for is something closer to the windows model. In other words if accessibility is needed by an AT app like orca then it is started and runs. However if it is not needed it is not being

Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

2008-10-24 Thread Tom Masterson
to this with some extra work. My main point was that I believe > it will require work in the thing talking to ATK (e.g., GAIL, Gecko, > OOo, etc.) and is independent of the D-Bus work. > > But, I might be missing something, > > Will > > Tom Masterson wrote: >> He

Brailleconnect and linux

2009-01-14 Thread Tom Masterson
Sorry if this is an incorrect place to ask this but it is the list address I have available here. Has anyone gotten the Baum Brailleconnect to work with linux via usb (using brltty)? If so what do I need to do to get it to work? In theory it can also emulate a handytech. I am using Ubuntu 8.10.

Re: GNOME 2.30: go stable or go cutting edge?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Masterson
Speaking from the standpoint of a user. I want it to be stable. I don't mind working with an unstable version on a virtual machine but I want my main machine to remain stable so I can work and I want to be able to upgrade my OS (ubuntu) without loosing my accessibility. Granted I do most of

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Masterson
One of the problems I see as both an advocate and a developer is that making things accessible is not as easy as it should be at least in linux. You have to consciously add code to make it work. I am far from being a fan of Microsoft but one thing they did right with Visual Studio was to put a

Python and accessibility question

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Masterson
So I am looking at a python program which uses gtk. Where can I find information on waht needs to be done to make it accessible? Currently it isn't. Tom ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.o

Remote desktop and windows

2010-03-12 Thread Tom Masterson
Has anyone found a way to use remote desktop to access a windows machine from linux and if so how did you do it? Note I am blind and depending on orca or some other screen reader. Thanks Tom ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibili

Re: Setting accessible name for SpinButton and ComboButton in pygtk2

2018-03-29 Thread Tom Masterson via gnome-accessibility-list
Not quite true. They ill need a copy of chirp with any change you have made so a least daily and an image of a downloaded radio which can be provided (I have several). All actions work on an image just as i you had just downloaded the information. Alternatively if I can figure out how to get