Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 43, Issue 23

2009-07-01 Thread Richard Horobin
I support Petra Ritter's suggestion of beeping when ready. A person who's interested in accessibility issues will probably have a sound-producing component attached. If the beep helps, then that's a help, isn't it? Richard Horobin. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 43, Issue 23

2009-07-01 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Your asumption is wrong. The problem of systems not having internal speakers any more is a change in main stream production. In the past, a computer case included an internal speaker. That is no longer true. That fact was never advertised, so there isn't any way to know in advance if a

Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 43, Issue 23

2009-07-01 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Kenny Hitt wrote: Hi. Your asumption is wrong. The problem of systems not having internal speakers any more is a change in main stream production. In the past, a computer case included an internal speaker. That is no longer true. That fact was never advertised,

the installer seem to be broken

2009-07-01 Thread mike
Hi, I noticed for the past four days the installer seems to be broken on the karmic live CD. As of today, sound also seems to be broken. Has anyone else noticed this? Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu 9.04 installation instructions via Orca

2009-07-01 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I grown exhausted from the beating up Ubuntu has taken over the past several weeks. Admittedly, Ubuntu has had unfortunate events happen with audio integration that cause speech to become corrupted. I think a lot of this has to do more with Pulse Audio integration issues than

RE: [orca-list] Ubuntu 9.04 installation instructions via Orca

2009-07-01 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi Willie, I think the fact that Ubuntu 9.04 has been given such a hard time is actually testament to its high standards. Ubuntu is by far the easiest version of Linux for a beginner to get up and running from a hardware point of view etc and because people expect Ubuntu to be perfect everytime

Frequent Crashes in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-07-01 Thread Storm Dragon
Hi, I am having this problem with 9.04. It starts up, Orca starts and gives its little shpill about the desktop, but now for some reason, half the time it says frame greyed. Then, a few minutes later, it crashes, the whole computer crashes to the point where the only way to get it working again