. Same with Supernova and Cobra on
Windows for that matter...
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:09 AM, _mallory
[1]stommep...@stommepoes.nl mailto:[2]stommep...@stommepoes.nl
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 09:17:52AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote
is better represented in these sorts of things.
Thanks again for your response and enjoy the rest of your day.
Alex Midence
-Original Message-
From: Jared Smith [mailto:ja...@webaim.org]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 1:40 PM
To: Alex Midence
Subject: Re: Web site comments
Yes, I'm
Hi, folks,
I wanted to pass this link along to you guys so the Orca community is more
represented in these things so, I’m terribly sorry about the cross posting.
This is a survey conducted by Webaim to find out how accessible screen reader
users think the internet is. What bugs me is that
to reference Orca.
Alex M
-Original Message-
From: Fernando Botelho [mailto:fhfbote...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Fernando
Botelho
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 9:27 AM
To: Alex Midence
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Important: Web accessibility survey for screen reader
users
They continue to exclude Orca
on the list is the other
option.
Alex M
-Original Message-
From: Al Sten-Clanton [mailto:albert.e.sten_clan...@verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 2:26 PM
To: a...@w6sfm.com; Alex Midence
Cc: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List; vinux-supp...@googlegroups.com;
orca-l...@gnome.org; vinux
Did you check screen reader on in the universal section of system settings?
Alex M
-Original Message-
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Milton
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:57 AM
To: orca-l...@gnome.org; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:
14.04 will have Gnome-shell 3.10. As for accessible Evince, I believe 13.10
has it so, 14.04 should. I'm running 13.10 at ome so, I can check this
evening to make sure.
-Original Message-
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of
Krishnakant Mane
Sent: Monday,
space. Once that happens then I think accessibility will move up
higher on their priority queue.
On 07/24/2013 08:41 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
Hi, Luke,
Just to be clear, I don't think and have never thought you were part
of the problem. What I do think is that it sucks that you are the
only
Wonderful news! I certainly feel better for it. Thanks for all your hard
work on qt-at-spi.
Alex M
From: Frederik Gladhorn [mailto:frede...@gladhorn.de]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:21 AM
To: kde-accessibil...@kde.org
Cc: Alex Midence; orca-l...@gnome.org; vinux-supp
: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:35 AM
To: kde-accessibil...@kde.org; 'Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List';
orca-l...@gnome.org
Cc: Alex Midence; 'Krishnakant Mane'
Subject: Re: [orca-list] [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to
Mir and QT
Onsdag 24. juli 2013 08.47.34 skrev Alex Midence:
Very
looked at it since May or June of last year, I think. It is a very
important piece of the puzzle.
Alex M
From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:42 AM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: 'Frederik Gladhorn'; kde-accessibil...@kde.org;
vinux-supp...@googlegroups.com
and Windows Phone. MS's priority right now is to become relevant in
the mobile space. Once that happens then I think accessibility will
move up higher on their priority queue.
On 07/24/2013 08:41 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
Hi, Luke,
Just to be clear, I don't think and have never thought you
Midence
Cc: Christopher Chaltain; vinux-supp...@googlegroups.com; 'Ubuntu
Accessibility Mailing List'; orca-l...@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] VINUX-SUPPORT: RE: Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to
Mir and QT
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:33:34PM EST, Alex Midence wrote:
Also, for the record, I fully
From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:27 PM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: orca-l...@gnome.org; vinux-supp...@googlegroups.com; Ubuntu
Accessibility Mailing List; kde-accessibil...@kde.org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT
Hi, all,
It looks like Ubuntu's Unity desktop will be switching to QT/QML in the near
future. It looks like they'll be using QT5. Does anyone know the current
state of accessibility for qt5 or QML? We were all disappointed to find out
that Unity 2d was discontinued in Ubuntu 12.04 and it is
or move just to placate blind Ubuntu users as your message implies.
On 07/23/2013 01:23 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
Hi, all,
It looks like Ubuntu's Unity desktop will be switching to QT/QML in
the near future. It looks like they'll be using QT5. Does anyone
know the current state
On 7/23/2013 4:31 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
I do not work for Canonical, and my statements on this or any list
have never been anything other than my own opinions. I don't know any
more, and never have, about the plans for Unity accessibility than
anyone else
Bummer. I was really
Very exciting! Well done, you guys! Console speech just works?! Very impressive!
I am very eager to try this out. Has anyone, by any chance, gun emacspeak to
work on it?
Best regards,
Alex M
Sent from my iPhone
On May 31, 2013, at 9:02 PM, Rob Whyte fu...@thefudge.net wrote:
The Vinux team
Glad someone has had time to look into this release. Abiword and
Gnumeric, eh? Yuck. Wonder why they put those old things in there.
Libreoffice is the more logical obvious choice. More accessible too.
Does anyone know why on Earth Abiword and Gnumeric, two venerable
applications that crop up
M
-- Forwarded message --
From: Alonzo Cuellar mariach...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:36:03 -0500
Subject: efi botting
To: Alex Midence alex.mide...@gmail.com
Hello Alex,
Efi or Extensible firmware interface is what windows 8 will use in the
future. It is also what the mac
I can see value in it if you have more than 4 workspaces. On my Lucid
Vinux installation, I got myself up to 12 workspaces. I stopped using
more than about five of them because it was too much of a pain to get
to, say workspace 11 or something like that. Gnome and Unity make
workspaces a bit
I can confirm. Mine's doing the exact same thing.
Alex M
On 5/24/12, Milton mil...@tomaatnet.nl wrote:
Hi all,
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Precise and got Orca 3.4.1 running in Unity
2D.
With Control_Alt_arrow-left/right I switch to another workspace.
I like to work in 3 or more
Ran updates and installed this yesterday.
Thanks.
Alex M
-Original Message-
From: orca-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto:orca-list-boun...@gnome.org] On
Behalf Of Luke Yelavich
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:56 PM
To: orca-l...@gnome.org; Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List
Subject:
Hi, Luke,
Do you or, for that matter, any of the other members on this list know if the
terminal is accessible from Unity 3d? If so, all someone would have to do if
they want to keep up with the latest developments would be to install gnome
shell or, who knows, even KDE by that time using the
What of the new devices coming out that are Android phones that become Ubuntu
desktops when plugged in? I figured they'd use Unity 2d and that 3d would be
too much for that hardware. I also hoped it'd be Unity 2d since so much
progress was made on its accessibility.
Alex M
-Original
What desktop are you running? Is it unity 2d, gnome-classic,
gnome-shell? What are you using?
Alex M
On 05/05/2012 03:26 PM, Milton wrote:
Hello all,
I did a fresh install of Precise with Orca and updated succesfully the
system. So now Orca 3.4.1 is running. LibreOffice Calc has problems
I'll post on there. I am running Orca 3.4.1 from the proposed ppa.
alex M
On 5/1/12, Luke Yelavich them...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I am aware many of you are running Ubuntu precise at the moment, and are
running orca 3.4.1 in some way or other, whether you built it yourself, or
used
apps.
-Dave
On 01/06/2012 05:45 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
You're probably having trouble with QT apps because the version in the
Ubuntu repositories hasn't been updated to the latest. I hope they at
least update the qt-at-spi bridge to the official release now since
the version they have
Hi,
I can't seem to get the Ubuntu accessible installer to pre-configure
my system such that applications that are run as root such as Synaptic
get spoken. Previously, this involved creating a .orbitrc file in the
/root directory but, I understand this is no longer the case with the
DBus port of
: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:29:19 -0600
From: Alex Midence alex.mide...@gmail.com
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: One man's observations on the Unity experience
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HI, all,
I'd been meaning to try Oneiric for some time and finally got around
to it last night. I installed Oneiric into a virtual machine using
the accessible option with Orca and fired it on up. I quickly ran
into trouble. I couldn't get to the applications menu. I hit alt+f1
and got to the
Hi, all,
I wanted to know if there were any plans to get a more up to date
version of at-spi 2 working in Natty? It's still using 2.0.2 or
something like that and at-spi2 is at 2.2.0 if not 2.2.1 by now. I've
seen quite a few at-spi update messages in the last few months
containing all sorts of
Hi, all,
I was taking a gander through Synaptic on my Natty installation the
other day and noticed that the repositories still have an Emacspeak
package from emacspeak 29 which is several years old. We are now at
Emacspeak 34 and there have been quite a few enhancements and
additions since then.
Personally, for a rock-steady, reliable installation of Ubuntu with
all the accessibility bells and whistles, the very best results I've
had in the last year or so were with Vinux 3.0 which is based on
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. You get Speakup working in the console, Orca in
the GUI and Yasr in the
Hi, all,
It's hot off the presses, folks. I want to try this real bad.
Unfortunately, work has heated up for me considerably of late making
it impossible for me to do anything fun like tinkering with Linux for
a while. *sigh* So ... whoever wants to ... Now's your chance!
Alex M
--
Meant to send this to the entire list but didn't realize it did not go through.
Thans.
Alex M
-- Forwarded message --
From: Alex Midence alex.mide...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:54:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility
To: frederik.gladh...@nokia.com
Hi
I seem to recall that Klaus Knopix is reputed to have had some success
making LXDE accessible in his Knopix Adrienne distribution. Perhaps
that is something that could be used as reference? As for
python-related slowness in Orca, I would tend to agree. C is just
faster than Python.
Hi, david,
You wrote on: Fri, 27 May 2011 08:12:44 +0530
From: David Sexton da...@rustytelephone.net
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
spea...@braille.uwo.ca, ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Help I broke speakup and orca in ubuntu 11.04
snip
but now
Hi, MacKenzie,
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to do it in 11.10. To make
it possible to just flip a screenreader on would require that
QT_ACCESSIBILITY environment variable be set to 1 in *all* sessions as
a default. With Qt-AT-SPI installed, this'd cause a huge performance
:27 PM, Alex Midence escribió:
Hi, all,
Based on all the trouble that has been going on with gnome and unity
and so forth and accessibility, I think that it is a very very good
idea for everyone to start exploring other desktops in case one ever
goes completely to pot. In recent weeks, I have
2011 21:46:25 -0400
From: Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com
To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:
Message-ID: BANLkTi=1oarf4ri8ws1akkfmkldnvx3...@mail.gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Alex Midence alex.mide...@gmail.com wrote:
?I
Hi, all,
Based on all the trouble that has been going on with gnome and unity
and so forth and accessibility, I think that it is a very very good
idea for everyone to start exploring other desktops in case one ever
goes completely to pot. In recent weeks, I have experimented with Ice
WM, Sawfish
Hi,everyone,
My apologies for the cross-post however, I felt it a good idea to cc
all interested parties on this, so to speak. I too had trouble with
11.04. I was trying to create a virtual machine with Vmware running
on Windows XP Media Center. I do this with extremely little effort on
Vinux
Hi, all,
I'm interested in trying out Ubuntu 11.04 prior to its
vinuxification ;). Here's waht I'd like to know:
I want to download the .iso and then run the OS in VMware inside of
Windows. How do I make the thing talk? Could someone describe what
happens when you start up the iso file?
Is
Hi, all,
My name is Alex Midence and I am a user of Ubuntu via the Vinux
distribution. I hope to learn a lot and contribute to this list in
whatever way I can. I heard about this list from a posting of Luke's
on the Vinux forum. I'm visually impaired, married, got 1 kid and
another on the way
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