Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility

2011-05-23 Thread Alex H.
Hi, Doesn't Adriane Knoppix run some form of LXDE with Orca? From the little I've used it, it's not slow, but then again I've got much better specs than what we're aiming for in this thread. I agree that running Orca on anything slower than 1.5Ghz is just simply painful, even with the increasing r

Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility

2011-05-23 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:58:58AM EST, Phill Whiteside wrote: > >From a general chat to our head of development on lubuntu, he is of the > opinion that if the code is really (and I mean really) tight, that it would > be possible to include within the very tight constraints that we are > committed

Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility

2011-05-23 Thread Pia
I believe this can be done with speakup for speaking the console to blind people. I thin you would also have to use espeak and espeakup as the tts and the middleware because speech-dispatcher as the middleware is just way too much of a resource hog. I am not sure you are going to get the grap

Lubuntu and Accessibility

2011-05-23 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hiyas, much has happened recently, including lubuntu getting clearance for full adoption at 11.10 by Canonical. Whilst I have quietly pushed accessibility (well, maybe not so quietly) as a part of lubuntu, we now need a bit of help off this team. Our specification of the minimal hardware it will

My Experience with Stock Ubuntu 11.04 and accessibility

2011-05-23 Thread Dave Hunt
Below, please find my impressions of running this release. I'm using an Asus 1015PE (a netbook) as my work-a-day system. Suggestions and comments welcome! I am running Ubuntu 11.04, but still with classic Gnome. Unlike on the live cd, there are no crashes like we saw, now that I've install

Re: pidgin and twitter

2011-05-23 Thread Milton
Thanks, I was looking first for the protocols. But I manage to add my Twitter account. - Original Message - From: "José Vilmar Estácio de Souza" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:02 PM Subject: Re: pidgin and twitter Hi. Did you add the your twitter account to pidgin? You do that in