Hello, everyone.
I am currently downloading Ubuntu 14.04 from the official Web site.
I am just curious as to what has improved in Ubuntu 14.04 related to
accessibility. What has changed as far as Unity and
magnification/accessibility goes? I am going to test things out on my
own once it is
Rob,
Is this in context of the Unity version of the GNOME version of Ubuntu?
I downloaded the Unity ISOs this afternoon, but I have not gotten to
work with them yet in a working environment.
On 04/17/2014 04:53 PM, Rob Whyte wrote:
Hi Chad,
It is accessible.
Are you aware that super alt S
I am just writing to ask if anyone knows if screen magnification will be
available in Ubuntu 14.04?
If anyone has any information regarding this, it would be much appreciated.
Take care.
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I wish that I could be more help in this situation. Seeing that it
[XPLike Ubuntu] is based off of Ubuntu 11.04, I am guessing that it was
using something prior to GNOME Shell, something n the GNOME 2.x cycle.
I have seen some distributions which try to present a Windows-like
desktop which
a more
accessible distro than Arch Linux. It takes a bit to set up, but once
it is going it runs like a dream.
HTH
Storm
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 01:14:24AM -0800, Robert Cole wrote:
I wish that I could be more help in this situation. Seeing that it
[XPLike Ubuntu] is based off of Ubuntu 11.04, I
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What an interesting history behind Linspire [1
I am not meaning to hijack this thread, but I just want to thank you,
Kyle, for sharing about Saylor; I have not heard about this mine of
educational materials. I cannot afford to go back to school right now
due to my current circumstances, but I want to continue learning. This
looks like a
Hello, Tapper.
From my understanding, due to limited resources and so forth, the focus
of making Ubuntu accessible will be geared mainly toward Long-Term
Support (LTS) releases. Ubuntu's next LTS release will be Ubuntu 14.04,
likely to be released in April 2014. If you are wanting to stick
Hello, Milton.
Unfortunately,, the GNOME Shell Magnifier is not available in the GNOME
Fallback session. I have heard that it may be possible to use the Compiz
eZoom plug-in with the Fallback session, but I have not tried it out
myself to verify it. In order to use the GNOME Shell Magnifier,
Hello, everyone.
I have enjoyed using fedora over the past year or so, but I just do not
have time to solve the big problems which I am having with the system.
My wife and family who use my system have run into quite a number of
issues, and it makes their experience pretty unpleasant.
I am
to
us blind users, would you please share this with them.
Kind regards,
Bob
On 05/06/2013 03:42 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:09:54AM EST, Robert Cole wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I have enjoyed using fedora over the past year or so, but I just do
of average is
good enough when it comes to accessibility.
Regards, and yes special regards and thanks to Luke and others who
work with what they have to give us the accessibility that they can.
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On 01/04/2013 01:09 AM, Robert Cole wrote:
Hello, Nolan.
When I first switched to Linux
Hello, Nolan.
When I first switched to Linux, I did so because I fell in love with
Ubuntu. Ubuntu is what I used (exclusively) until the accessibility
issues began to kick in. I am very appreciative of the hard work which
the Accessibility team puts into Ubuntu, and I understand that they are
Hello, Helen.
This would probably be off-topic for the Orca list, but the
AccessibleFreedom Support list may be a good place to start. Here is the
Info Page for this list:
http://gator1140.hostgator.com/mailman/listinfo/support_accessiblefreedom.org
I hope that this is helpful to you.
On
Thanks for the link, Alan.
Hopefully I can tune in to the stream!
On 10/26/2012 10:56 AM, Alan Bell wrote:
The Ubuntu Developer Summit is where the development activities for
the next 6 months are planned, the next one is next week in
Copenhagen. There is an hour session dedicated to
Hello, Lenny.
Here is a page which should hopefully be helpful to you.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts
Ubuntu no longer uses GNOME 2.x as its default desktop; it now uses its
own desktop which is called Unity. Unity has two variants, Unity-2D
Hello, Glenn.
When you boot up your flash drive into Ubuntu, you *should* eventually
hear a drum when the system starts. When you hear this sound, you can
press CTRL+S to start Orca up. At this point you can choose to Try
Ubuntu or Install Ubuntu. In either case, you shoudl be defaulted to
Hello, Milton.
I think you just need to run:
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
This will install the GNOME Classic environment.
I hope that this helps.
Take care.
On 05/06/2012 03:41 AM, Milton wrote:
I did a fresh install of Preciese and have 2 options Unity and Unity
2D. I
I would strongly second Alan's suggestion of using Compiz under Unity
2D. This is actually what I do when I want and need to use
magnification, and it works quite well. I have had little if any
problems with this at all. The Negative plugin works as well. Also, if
you get frustrated with the
Hello, Charlie.
do you use any screen magnification on your Linux distribution? If in
Ubuntu's Unity you can make use of the Compiz eZoom plugin (which I
would often rely on under Unity), and under GNOME Shell, there is a
great built-in magnifier which can greatly magnify the screen (even
That is really strange, as SHIFT+F10 should display the context menu
when on the desktop.
This may be a dumb question, but by any chance is one of the SHIFT keys
stuck on your system?
On 02/03/2012 08:02 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Perhaps try shift-f10 and see what happens.On Fri, 3 Feb 2012,
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
orca will be installed in /usr/local
On 01/25/2012 01:40 AM, Robert cole wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 along with Orca version 3.2.1.
I see that a lot of Ubuntu 11.10 users are happily using Orca Master
(which I believe is version 3.3.5pre
in which a certain letter of a menu (e.g. [F]ile, [E]dit,
[V]iew ,etc) is underscored.
Am I doing something wrong?
On 01/25/2012 02:50 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
On 24/01/12 23:28, Robert cole wrote:
Thanks for the link, Bruno.
I am downloading a daily build of the Precise live CD right now.
Should
Thanks, Luke.
I'll try and see if I can find out why Unity3D is not coming up for me
in VirtualBox.
On 01/25/2012 03:07 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:58:10AM EST, Robert cole wrote:
Hello, Bruno.
I actually installed the x86 version as a VirtualBox guest, but the
HUD
This is really neat. I am really looking forward to testing it out in
the near future.
On 01/24/2012 02:47 PM, Alan Bell wrote:
On 24/01/12 22:30, Dave Hunt wrote:
Do we have it right, in concept? I hope it's usable with Orca by
Beta time!
-Dave
yeah, I think it will be fine by release
on with it.
-eric
On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Robert Cole wrote:
Hello, Michael, all.
As concerning this topic, it was suggested to me on the gnome-accessibility
mailing list that a Testimonials page would be beneficial in allowing users to
share their stories about how assistive
Hello, Michael, all.
As concerning this topic, it was suggested to me on the
gnome-accessibility mailing list that a Testimonials page would be
beneficial in allowing users to share their stories about how assistive
technologies such as Orca as well as other applications have improved
their
Hello.
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 via Wubi on my laptop about an hour ago,
and I have not used the a11y PPA. I was able to access the wireless icon
normally, if that is of any help to you. I find that it is actually
working wonderfully using Orca.
On 10/15/2011 09:04 PM, Nolan Darilek
Hello, everyone.
I was disappointed when I saw that the problem with Unity
magnification was still standing in Ubuntu 11.10 (to say the least). I
decided, though, to try to make an adventure of it. I really need to
start using screen readers in order to reduce eye strain, and so I
tried Ubuntu
Hello, everyone.
Sadly, I must report that this magnification issue persists in Ubuntu
11.10 as well. I tested this under a virtual installation of Ubuntu
11.10 with 3D Acceleration enabled.
I am going to try to install gnome-shell on the VM and see if it works
any better for me.
I know
dock appears and zooming seems to work
(with the exception of the Unity dock).
I'm a bit distraught as I have no idea what to do.
Thanks for any suggestions and input.
On 10/05/2011 12:36 PM, Robert Cole wrote:
Hello, everyone.
Sadly, I must report that this magnification issue persists
Hello, everyone.
I do not have a test machine here at home, so I am not able to try this
for myself as I would like to.
In Ubuntu 11.04, the Compiz eZoom plugin would only zoom in to the
desktop, but the Unity dashboard/dock would not change; they would stay
zoomed out. Does anyone know if
Hello, Mike.
Please try the following and see if it helps things for you.
1) Go to System-Preferences-Appearance to open the Appearance
dialog box.
2) Once the Appearance dialog box opens, hit the right arrow key four
times to get to the Visual Effects tab.
3) There are (on my system)
No worries. :)
Luke Yelavich wrote:
Hi all
Sorry for the multiple posts. it seems there was a problem with the
mail server, and I was wondering why my message wasn't showing up.
Well, they are now. :)
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Hello all
I have seen much talk about the state of accessibility for Ubuntu 7.10 Feisty, and how some
people have had no problems, yet thers are also those who are disappointed in the way things are
Hello, everyone.
I've been taking classes related to the JAWS screen reader for the past
couple of weeks. The organization which is teaching me does not offer
any support for Ubuntu/Linux (nor did they really know anything about
it). I've been a user of screen magnifiers for years, but I've
mike coulombe wrote:
Hi, just a question. Why couldn't speech-dispatcher be added to the live CD.
This would get speech working again.
Also for anyone who installs the new version of ubuntu and has a problem. I
found by running orca -t in the terminal. It seems to reset and let you do
the
Christian wrote:
Hi all,
I havent followed the messages on the list, but is it worth downloading the
latest CD of Gutsi? Will Orca work on it?
many thanks,
Christian
I tried the September 11, 2007 daily build, but Orca still did not work
for me. I would download the latest build to
Hello, everyone.
I was just curious as if it is possible to get the latest build of Orca
(with PortAudio and such) on Ubuntu Feisty, or if this would only work
in Gutsy?
Thanks for any help on this one.
Take care.
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Hi,
Are my messages coming through?
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a wireless network from the terminal as well.
I will be gone until sunday, but will play with this when I get back.
Mike.
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Hello.
The only one I can think of (but I don't know if it is accessible with
speech...it does work with the screen magnifier) is Bluefish. You can
get it via Synaptic or apt-get.
Also, Gedit has build in HTML syntax highlighting capabilities if you
aren't looking for something too fancy.
It kind of sounds like you (or someone else) may have somehow
accidentally dragged the panel with your menus (your top panel) to
either the left or right side of your screen so that it is running
vertically instead of horizontally. You can find this out if you use
the up and down arrows to go to
Kristian Lyngstøl wrote:
On 5/24/07, Robert Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I had read somewhere that there existed a Beryl plugin for the purpose
of enlarging the mouse pointer. Is this true? I've been experimenting
with Beryl, and it uses hardly any RAM or CPU time on my
Jason Grieves wrote:
Henrik,
Sure. Can i setup a couple of wiki pages on our ubuntu? I want to
try to get some Zoomtext Power Users to help me out. Assuming you
don't have pages for this beryl/compiz (didn't they join?) plugin at
their respective wiki.
Thanks,
Jason Grieves
Jason
Hello, everyone.
I downloaded the latest version of gnome-mag using svn last night. I
have been on vacation for the past two weeks or so, and I thought that I
should test the latest revision (502). After compiling (I used the
--prefix=/usr parameter with the configure script) gnome-mag no
Hello, everyone.
I just got a 2GB pen drive as an early birthday present. :) I was
thinking of putting Xubuntu 7.04 on it so that I can take a piece of
Ubuntu with me wherever I go (also I could install clam and other
software to do some tech work on client PCs if need be). My question
is,
What is the extension for the file you downloaded? Is it something
along the lines of .tar.gz? It could be that you downloaded the source code.
I'm not sure how stable Firefox 3 is though, as I have not yet tested it
myself. I only know that it is still in alpha testing.
If you have download
Hello, Mike.
The terminal program for adding users is useradd. To add a user via the
terminal you woudl do something like:
sudo useradd username
Then, to set a password for the user, you would use the passwd program:
sudo passwd username
Hit enter after typing in the above command and then
.
Mike.
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Date: Tuesday, April 17, at 8:12 PM
To: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re
Hello, Mike.
I cannot remember how it was in Feisty (I downgraded for now, but hope
to upgrade again soon), but in Edgy the default About GNOME opening
screen seemed like more of a slideshow, with text appearing and
disappearing. As I recall, I was unable to copy the text from the
screen, so ti
Hello, everyone.
I just have two questions concerning gnome-mag-0.14.3. I just donwloaded
the source, compiled, and installed the program today after downgrading from
Ubuntu Feisty to Edgy (did a fresh install of Edgy). These questions are
related to the command-line options/parameters for
Hello, everyone.
Just a day ago I reinstalled Ubuntu Edgy because of wireless issues.
After solving the problem with wireless, I decided to upgrade Orca to
v2.17.92 and I updated gnome-mag-0.14.1 (I just saw that v0.14.3 was
available at the GNOME FTP site). The Orca/gnome-mag source compiled
Hello, everyone.I am unsure if these issues are known about or not, so this is why I am posting this mesage. I apologize if this is a repeat of something already known.These issues occurred on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Final
1) I noticed that doing spell-checking in OpenOffice Writer while using
Hello.I apologize if this is a previously stated issue.I am not sure if this is a bug in Orca-Magnifier or Firefox 2.0Beta 2 Accessibility (which I believe is the default browser in Edgy). Basically, when scrolling on a Web page, the magnifier component of Orca does not show the new contents of
if this is the case, but while running with Orca it looks as if the magnifier is not caching as it does with Gnopernicus.I sincerely apologize if this was an already-known issue.Take care.
I'll keep working with it tomorrow and see fi I can figure anything out.On 10/4/06, Robert Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED
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