I'm still having problems getting the installer to work

2008-10-04 Thread mike
Hi, I tried using to days live CD with the talking install as follows. I press enter once after the CD is at the boot menu. Then I press down arrow once, f5, 3 and enter twice. The CD boots, but I get no speech. I pressed escape which then booted into the desktop. I noticed accessibility was not

Can orca read the weather in the top panel?

2008-10-04 Thread mike
Hi, I see in the settings on the top panel something about displaying the weather. Is this accessible with Orca? If so, how do you use this feature? Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

more problems with firefox

2008-10-04 Thread mike
Hi, I noticed today that not only can't I use the arrow keys in firefox. It now says html content like it used to do when it wasn't accessible. Is anyone else having this problem? Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Orca Script Writing Tutorial

2008-10-04 Thread Storm Dragon
Hi, I have been attempting to learn Python. So far so good, I think anyway. Everything I have created works so far after a little tinkering anyway. I have found that the actual Orca code is a bit much to try and tackle for a beginner. Just finding the write files poses a bit of a challenge. So,

Re: Can orca read the weather in the top panel?

2008-10-04 Thread Storm Dragon
It can. You have to go into the time preferences and set your location. Once that is done, it will read the current temperature. It seems to read it every time I press alt-F1 to bring up the applications menu right before saying applications menu. You can also use ctrl-alt-tab to get to the