Re: java-atk-wrapper in ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Halim Sahin, le sam. 17 oct. 2020 09:55:45 +0200, a ecrit: > there seems to be a problem with atkwrapper in Ubuntu focal. > When I run a java application orca reads nothing and the app itself seems to > be crashed. Which application is this? > Is this a known problem? No, otherwise it wo

Re: How is Ubuntu-mate 18.04 enabling QT accessibility?

2018-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Hunt, le mer. 29 août 2018 18:12:11 -0400, a ecrit: > I've looked in ~/.profile and /etc/profile.d/mate-qt.sh  and cannot find where > the accessibility switches are enabled; I'd like to make this access work on a > machine running Arch.  This is probably in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90qt-a11y whic

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alex ARNAUD, on mar. 20 mars 2018 17:33:25 +0100, wrote: > Is Dasher should be configured to replace the keyboard when I open a text > edition field? IIRC that has never been implemented. It would be a matter of making it e.g. an ibus input method or such. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailin

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mats L, on mar. 20 mars 2018 16:22:25 +0100, wrote: > Unfortunately the GNU/Linux environments are badly missing a full-featured > tailorable on-screen keyboard alternative (including switch input etc.) > following up on the [4]GOK project since it was discontinued. Is onboard not the continuation

Re: It is time for me to depart.

2017-11-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Luke Yelavich, on mer. 08 nov. 2017 12:46:30 +1100, wrote: > It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my > departure from free and open source software development. Uh :/ I'm very sorry about this. Of course I understand your decision, and understand how d

Accessibility topic of LSM 2017

2017-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
LSM/RMLL 2017 17th Libre Software Meeting   July 1-7, 2017   Saint-Etienne, France   http://2017.rmll.info/   Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility topic [we apologize for dupli

Re: Minimal Ubuntu with speech on CD

2016-08-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Glenn / Lenny, on Wed 03 Aug 2016 21:31:52 -0500, wrote: > That's great news, will it speak too? See the documentation of the debian installer: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s02.html « Support for software speech synthesis is available on all installer images which have the graph

Re: Minimal Ubuntu with speech on CD

2016-08-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Glenn / Lenny, on Tue 02 Aug 2016 19:58:56 -0500, wrote: > I did find a Debian on CD download site, but it was like 8 disks to burn. You can burn just the first, and it will download the rest from the Internet. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com ht

Re: accessible EFI?

2016-05-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Eric Oyen, on Fri 27 May 2016 22:30:41 -0700, wrote: > does anyone happen to know if there is a project to make an accessible EFI? I had discussed about it with an Intel tiano core developer, he said that technically it's very possible, as an EFI module. It "just" needs people working on i

Re: how can I get a beep sound when GRUB appears

2015-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Milton, le Thu 17 Sep 2015 18:27:37 +0200, a écrit : > #GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1" > > So I did uncomment the line and ran update-grub. > But still no beep. Do I miss something? That should be it. You can check in your /boot/grub/grub.cfg that the "play 480 440 1" command appears, and that there

Re: is there a development project for the Braille Sense?

2015-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Mon 31 Aug 2015 10:03:01 +1000, a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:52:00AM AEST, Eric Oyen wrote: > > Is there a development project to compile a running version for the braille > > sense U2? I am trying to find out what ARM chip they are using and a few > > other specificat

Accessibility and mobility topic of LSM 2015

2015-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
LSM/RMLL 2015 16th Libre Software Meeting   July 4-10, 2015 Beauvais, France    http://2015.rmll.info/   Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility and mobility topic [we apologize fo

[Extended call] Accessibility and mobility topic of LSM 2014

2014-04-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, The call for talks for LSM has been extended up to 15th April, please consider submitting talks! Thanks, Samuel LSM/RMLL 2014 15th Libre Software Meeting   July 5-11, 2014 Montpellier, France    http://2014.rmll.inf

Accessibility and mobility topic of LSM 2014

2014-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
    LSM/RMLL 2014 15th Libre Software Meeting   July 5-11, 2014 Montpellier, France    http://2014.rmll.info/   Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility a

Accessibility topic of LSM 2013

2013-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
    LSM/RMLL 2013 14th Libre Software Meeting   July 6-11, 2013 Brussels, BELGIUM    http://2013.rmll.info/   Call For Papers and Participation    limited on health & access

Re: Talking debian installer (d-i) for Ubuntu

2013-01-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeffrey Malewski, le Thu 24 Jan 2013 10:52:28 -0500, a écrit : > They are available as .udeb or source (tar.bz2) I am > unsure how to add the alsa, espeak, and espeakup .udebs to the initrd.img so I am unsure either. I how how it happens in the Debian d-i, but I don't know the installer is built

Re: Will be ship Quantal with Liblouis 2.5.0 or 2.5.1 release? Very important packaging a new version to works Orca with contracted braille feature in Ubuntu 12.10.

2012-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Alan Bell, le Fri 28 Sep 2012 08:58:27 +0100, a écrit : > looks like this is 2.4.1 in Debian too > http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/liblouis > > so this is more than a sync request from debian I have just uploaded 2.5.1 into debian experimental. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mail

Re: Accessibility Meta-package or pp?

2012-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Hunt, le Tue 13 Mar 2012 13:12:30 -0400, a écrit : > Is there a single package or ppa containing the accessibility for Ubuntu > 12.04? This would be handy for derivative distros, like Trisquel, to be > sure their accessibility is the latest and complete. My question is > prompted by an exper

Health & Accessibility topic of LSM 2012

2012-02-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
LSM/RMLL 2012 13th Libre Software Meeting   July 7-12, 2012 Geneva, SWITZERLAND    http://2012.rmll.info/   Call For Papers and Participation    limited on health & accessibility topic [we apologize f

Re: speakup under oneiric

2011-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le Mon 17 Oct 2011 01:29:32 -0400, a écrit : > speechd-up and speakup do not play nicely together. One or the other is > possible but not both.On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, mk360 wrote: You mean speechd-up and espeakup, I guess. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessi

Re: Speakup on ubuntu 11.4

2011-07-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, mk360, le Thu 07 Jul 2011 11:18:36 -0400, a écrit : > DKMS make.log for speakup-3.1.5.dfsg.1 for kernel 2.6.38-8-generic-pae For recent versions of linux, you do not need to install speakup, it is already provided in Linux itself. Simply modprobe speakup_ltlk for instance, and voila. Samu

LSM from 9th to 14th july 2011

2011-06-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, The Libre Software Meeting (LSM, RMLL) will take place from 9th to 14th july 2011 in Strasbourg. All the information are available on http://rmll.info For people who would like lost-cost accomodation, reservations are now open. Reservation is recommended anyway, to get a badge and Interne

Re: daisy player

2011-06-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
mattias, le Thu 16 Jun 2011 01:34:50 +0200, a écrit : > exist one? > ubunu natty 64 bit One has been added to oneiric, called daisy-player. The dependencies are relaxed enough that you should be able to install it without having to upgrade your Ubuntu system at all. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibili

Re: Arabic Screen Reader

2010-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barakat El-Dareer, le Fri 19 Nov 2010 12:57:43 +0300, a écrit : >   I'm so wonder if your team work on Arabic language support for Orca > , > especially there are a lot of theme on Windows Hal, NVDA , Jaws and so on, > that makes 1/6 of blindness people around the word out of Ubuntu. Well

Hardware-based screen magnification

2010-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Now that xrandr 1.3 has panning support again, I have written a small documentation on how this can be used for simple hardware-based screen magnification: http://brl.thefreecat.org/wiki/Xorg the advantage over compiz-based magnification being that it's completely hardware-driven (except

Re: Lucid and brltty v. 4.1 - bug in brltty.conf

2010-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Labrador, le Sat 08 May 2010 16:58:45 +0200, a écrit : > Why not fixing such a bad bug definitely, or explaining why puting > Serial: as default (probably wrong) param ? Because nobody reported such issue. Are you really using an upper case for the 's' of Serial? It might just be it. Samuel --

Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.7 Beta -- Please help with testing

2010-04-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
trev.saund...@gmail.com, le Tue 27 Apr 2010 14:30:39 -0400, a écrit : > THere is a rather large local security problem with your use of unix sockets. > It is very easy for a local hostile user to cause a denial of service, > because you put the unix sockets in a world readable place with *very*

Re: Announcing the OpenTTS project, a fork of speech-dispatcher

2010-04-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Bill Cox, le Mon 19 Apr 2010 09:50:51 -0400, a écrit : > > Brailcom has always officially supported the work done by Luke Yelavich and > > others.  We > > linked Luke's git from the official Speech Dispatcher web page and we were > > trying to > > promote this work where possible.  We als

Re: April 13, 2010 Meeting Logs

2010-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Cox, le Wed 14 Apr 2010 07:55:02 -0400, a écrit : > I'll throw in two more wishes for the next release. First, can we > bind starting Orca to Control+Alt+o, Control-alt-o may not be the best choice. Sure, it makes sense for "O"rca, but what if a distro wants to ship another screen reader ? I

Re: speakup integration?

2010-04-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jacob Schmude, le Tue 13 Apr 2010 02:13:02 -0400, a écrit : > Are there any plans to have Speakup on the text-based installer disks in > the future so as to facilitate the installation of Ubuntu Server, for > example? Just to mention that Debian has speakup on its installer disks since Etch (along

Re: Lucid update broke accessibility

2010-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Cox, le Thu 04 Mar 2010 10:03:27 -0500, a écrit : > Anyone have any ideas what's going on? Shall I file a > bug report on bugs.launchpad.net? Unless somebody speaks within a day, report a bug. Better report bugs several times and they will be merged, than risk not reporting the bug at all.

Re: OCR made easy on ubuntu 9.04

2010-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, sathyan, le Tue 02 Mar 2010 16:32:39 -0500, a écrit : > Now a visually impaired person can enjoy reading the printed books using > free software, cuneiform is a wonderful ocr engine Sorry to moderate a bit, but according to Debian, cuneiform is not free, because the source for the .dat fil

Accessibility and handicap topic of LSM 2010

2010-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
The Libre Software Meeting (LSM or RMLL in French for Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) is conferences cycle about Free Softawre. LSM is an annual event born in 2000 and since 2003, it occurs in a different town each year. LSM are free as in beer and as a speech :-) No fees, no places limit.

Re: Public workstations

2010-02-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Storm Dragon, le Thu 11 Feb 2010 11:42:21 -0500, a écrit : > Accessible distros are great in some ways, they solve a lot of problems for > people, especially newbies who want and expect things to just work. The > problem > I have with them, is that when Linux gains enough popularity that it is > i

Re: ORCA, SSH and XWindows

2009-10-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Loren Schoof, le Sun 11 Oct 2009 13:24:37 -0700, a écrit : > When I connect to a Linux machine using PUTTY, JAWS does not handle the > windowed environment from the Linux machine. Mmm, are you using just an ssh connexion? In that case there is no windowed environment to be read. Are you using a

Re: Festival voices

2009-07-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Angelo D. Marra, le Mon 20 Jul 2009 17:46:29 +0200, a écrit : > I'm experiencing much difficoultis in installing HTS voices in festival > could a .deb package be done? There is one already. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.co

Re: SAPI

2009-07-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Angelo D. Marra, le Tue 14 Jul 2009 02:08:17 +0200, a écrit : > I've been googoling without clear results: > Can we have sapi 5 on ubuntu? There has been plans to implement sapi in wine, I don't know how well it is going, but I'm pretty sure it's not available yet. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibili

Re: espeakup in Jaunty

2009-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Storm Dragon, le Fri 10 Apr 2009 09:13:36 -0400, a écrit : > stormdra...@stormdragon-laptop:~/speakup/contrib/espeakup-0.60$ make > cc -c -Wall -o espeakup.o espeakup.c > In file included from espeakup.c:27: > espeakup.h:26:30: error: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory That's the issu

Re: espeakup in Jaunty

2009-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Storm Dragon, le Fri 10 Apr 2009 08:41:17 -0400, a écrit : > Is there a way to make it compile even though it has errors? Ah, so they are really errors on your system? Show them to us. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: espeakup in Jaunty

2009-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Storm Dragon, le Fri 10 Apr 2009 08:00:25 -0400, a écrit : > I have installed speakup, and everything went as expected until I tried to > compile espeakup. I kept getting errors about functions being implicitly > defined. Does anyone know what changed to cause this to happen, and beter > yet, >

Re: Laptop screens

2009-03-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 15:08:48 +1100, a écrit : > Of course, my preference would be for a display card/adapter to do the > work so the whole computer was permanently like that? Is there a > hardware way? It is possible, yes. Probably easier with DVI ports than with VGA ports. I guess tha

Re: Laptop screens

2009-03-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 13:45:14 +1100, a écrit : > Does this mean that if _you_ did xrandr -x, your display would be like > the enclosed? I _did_ it before sending my mail, to check that it was xrandr -x and not xrandr -y, yes. (and actually had a hard time typing xrandr -o normal to get

Re: Laptop screens

2009-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 12:29:34 +1100, a écrit : > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 01:42 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 06:50:12 +1100, a écrit : > > > Does anybody know of any laptop (suitable for linux) that allows the > > > user to d

Re: Laptop screens

2009-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 06:50:12 +1100, a écrit : > Does anybody know of any laptop (suitable for linux) that allows the > user to display the screen in mirror image? What do you mean by "mirror image"? xrandr -x ? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists

Re: Vibuntu the most accessible Ubuntu Linux live cd for theVisually Impaired EVA III

2008-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
luke Davis, le Mon 15 Dec 2008 01:44:35 -0500, a écrit : > Ubuntu may even recognize the value in adding at least a beeping > bootloader, and a less tricky installation process for disabled users. Again, please do not take things wrong. Ubuntu does _not_ have any opinion of what accessibility

Re: Linux WISH LIST

2008-12-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Cabrero Souto, le Fri 12 Dec 2008 13:20:14 +0100, a écrit : > 1. The system boots directly into a linux kernel with a special initrd > disk image. That initrd launches a boot menu with speech synthesys and > braille support. Mmm, a very similar project (not related to accessibility) exis

Re: Speech-dispatcher as a service?

2008-12-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Picón Álvarez, le Thu 04 Dec 2008 16:21:59 +0100, a écrit : > Even better would be if Ubuntu came like that already, but that's > probably harder to manage. Why? Yes, working with people is difficult, but keeping a parallel distribution is a lot of long-term work. See what happened in Debi

Re: ubuntu 8.10 textinstaller and braille

2008-11-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Simon Bienlein, le Tue 18 Nov 2008 19:52:58 +0100, a écrit : > After the installation, BrlTTY is not automatically started as in the > file /etc/default/brltty the parameter RUN_BRLTTY is set on "no". Can > this problem be fixed by developers or do I have to register with > launchpad to submit a

Re: is there a way to un mute sound with the key board

2008-11-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
mike coulombe, le Fri 07 Nov 2008 22:34:41 -0600, a écrit : > Hi, My kids use one of my computers. They mute the sound and sometimes forget > to un mute it. Is there anyway to un mute the sound using a keyboard command > from the desktop or from the terminal? You can use alsamixer or aumix to co

Re: I have a question about file browsers

2008-11-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
mike, le Fri 07 Nov 2008 16:55:45 -0600, a écrit : > Hi, in the dos days there was a nice little program called sdir. It was a > file browser that once ran let you use the arrow keys to look at different > files. If I remember correctly, sdir even let you change to different drives. > Does any

Re: New developer

2008-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Tom Lloyd, le Mon 27 Oct 2008 16:23:43 -0700, a écrit : > As a side project I am intergrating SAPI into Ubuntu to gives access > to the MS speech engines using speech dispatcher. That is really great news! Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: why Your development team disabled automatic braille display detection and support during booting from A Ubuntu live CD?

2008-08-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Luke Yelavich, le Mon 25 Aug 2008 11:18:59 +1000, a écrit : > Unfortunately I do not have a USB Braille display, so cannot test and check > detection myself. Qemu now (svn version) has a -curses option to work in text mode, and a -usbdevice braille option to emulate a USB baum device. Sa

Re: Braille display

2008-07-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Mura, le Tue 29 Jul 2008 05:32:46 +0200, a écrit : > It doesn't work with Orca still write down that there is a startup problem. Actually it's not orca that displays it, but brltty. You can press a braille key to acknowledge the error, and see the /var/log/daemon.log to get the full error. >

Re: Anyone tried Hardy for PPC?

2008-06-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Al Puzzuoli, le Sun 08 Jun 2008 11:20:05 -0400, a écrit : > I'm downloading the desktop CD right now, but before I burn the CD, I wanted > to > check whether there are any known issues. Does accessible install work under > PPC? The desktop CD should work. The text console reading with b

Re: grub beep control-g

2008-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
E.J. Zufelt, le Fri 06 Jun 2008 19:29:38 -0300, a écrit : > However, I can't seem to produce the control-g code in either vi or vim > through > gnome-terminal. press control-v control-g in insert mode. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

Re: liblouisxmml

2008-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
[EMAIL PROTECTED], le Thu 15 May 2008 14:44:41 -0400, a écrit : > gcc -c -Wall -fPIC -O2 transcriber.c -I/usr/include/libxml2 > In file included from transcriber.c:35: > louisxml.h:34:27: error: libxml/parser.h: No such file or directory apt-file search libxml/parser.h libxml2-dev: /usr/includ

qemu, Ubuntu CDs, and braille

2008-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, svn's version of qemu (as well as the debian qemu package starting from version 0.9.1-4) has support for virtual braille devices. That means that people without braille device can still check the support by installing brltty and then running: brltty -b xw -A auth=user,host=:1 & BRLAPI_HOS

Re: libspi-1.0

2008-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Donald Raikes, le Mon 14 Apr 2008 19:35:05 -0700, a écrit : > I am trying to compile a package from a tarball, but it keeps saying > that it requires libspi-1.0 or later. libspi is in libatspi1.0-0 # apt-get install apt-file # apt-file update # apt-file search libspi ;) Samuel -- Ubuntu-acces

Re: BRLTTY problems

2008-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian, le Sat 08 Mar 2008 17:26:40 +0100, a écrit : > I type that as soon as the cd boots up. In my memory, the way to configure brltty is to press F6 and then type brltty=ts,ttyS0 (no install) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists

Re: BRLTTY problems

2008-03-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian, le Sat 08 Mar 2008 17:09:19 +0100, a écrit : > Just wanted to try alpha6 of Ubuntu just to see if my hardware is working > now. It didn't work that good with the 7.10 release. > Isn't BRLTTY included on the alternate CD? Should be > I tried running > install brltty=ts,ttyS0 How do yo

Re: Ubuntu for visually impaired

2008-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Mura, le Fri 07 Mar 2008 15:59:33 +0100, a écrit : > just would like to ask if this list is for blind persons specific problem? That's the main topic yes (though other kinds of accessibility issues are completely on-topic of course). Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-access

Re: [orca-list] BrlTTY package testing.

2008-02-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sérgio Neves, le Fri 29 Feb 2008 14:39:47 -, a écrit : > Is it recommended to remove the old brltty with > sudo apt-get --purge remove brltty > or this new brltty replaces completely the other? It should nicely replace the old one. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessib

Arduino detected as braille device

2007-12-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I'm amazed that the patch for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brltty/+bug/84139 is still not applied. Does somebody really care about the brltty package? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Accessibility Documentation

2007-08-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Phil Bull, le Wed 15 Aug 2007 16:05:47 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:22 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > There should probably a section about automatic start of accessibility > > features. For instance, if a braille display is detected by udev, brltty >

Re: Accessibility Documentation

2007-08-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, There should probably a section about automatic start of accessibility features. For instance, if a braille display is detected by udev, brltty is automatically started and orca too (or at least I've reported a bug to make that happen :) ) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-

Re: I just want to give my thanks

2007-06-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Robert Cole, le Sun 24 Jun 2007 04:07:56 -0700, a écrit : > Anyhow...I have used gnome-mag (without Orca) for months now with > full-screen; no dummy driver setup needed. > From what i can recall, the full-screen magnification was present from > v0.14.3. Ok, I'm just using an older version, a

Re: I just want to give my thanks

2007-06-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Robert Cole, le Sun 24 Jun 2007 02:51:51 -0700, a écrit : > Now I have full-screen magnification, and I can fully utilize my > computer system; and I have finally gotten away from Windows. Mmm, how did you achieve that? The tutorials I've found talk about the dummy driver, are you using that

Re: Ubuntu with german speech

2007-05-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Lutenitsa, le Sat 12 May 2007 11:18:43 +0200, a écrit : > Bytheway, are there some hints to setup urca or to configure brllty to work > with the console? > Does orca recognize a braille terminal that is conected via usb or do I have > to > make some configurations in .conf files. A USB devic

Re: SSHD on Ubuntu

2007-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Christian, le Thu 03 May 2007 19:07:14 +0200, a écrit : > I need to have SSHD isntalled onto my Ubuntu 7.04 but i cannot seem to find > it wiht apt-cache. any thoughts? It's probably rather called openssh Note: for such not accessibility-related question, you should rather ask on more gener

Re: this may be useful to read man pages

2007-04-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, mike coulombe, le Sat 21 Apr 2007 16:26:22 -0500, a écrit : > Hi, I found a program by accident and thought I would share it with you. > I typed info in the terminal and was told info was not installed. > After installing it with aptitude I found it reads man pages. It's not really meant to r

Re: accessibility of windows applications running under wine

2007-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lubos Pintes, le Tue 10 Apr 2007 20:15:31 +0200, a écrit : > Just curious: Can Orca read applications running under wine? Not yet, because wine wasn't ported to using atk. But this should be relatively easily feasible, it's just that someone has to actually do it. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Beta version of Feisty Fawn: problems with BRLTTY and Orca

2007-03-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Simon Bienlein, le Tue 27 Mar 2007 11:56:37 +0200, a écrit : > I wanted to switch to the virtual console with Alt+F1 in order to start > Orca. I was not shown a prompt. I can confirm this: they seem to have _dropped_ the text console logins... To my mind, this really has to be reverted. Sam

Re: help needed

2007-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Naushad C A, le Thu 01 Mar 2007 21:36:48 -0800, a écrit : > Yesterday I installed ubuntu 6.1 with orca but it is just giving a > message on the startup What message? Please remember that if the programmer took the time to write a message, that was for you to report it :) (forget about the us

Re: Braille support testing

2007-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Wed 31 Jan 2007 12:02:34 +0100, a écrit : > After Herd 3 is out (this week) we want to switch back on general USB > detection and deploy a script to assist with the configuration of serial > displays. We would appreciate help with testing from anyone with a > braille

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Sun 21 Jan 2007 22:58:57 +1100, a écrit : > > Is the byte order different from i386? > > I think it is, but I couldn't be sure of that. It is different indeed: ppc is big endian. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
On my french keyboard, Mod2 is Numlock, Mod4 is Windows and Mod5 is AltGr. I didn't manage to hit Mod3. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Haneman, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 13:24:53 +, a écrit : > Luke Yelavich wrote: > > ... > > In Windows, Jaws manages to prevent the capslock key from being latched > > or unlatched. To latch/unlatch, you press shift + Capslock, or press > > capslock twice quickly. > > > I see. I expect that

Re: Substitute for Mouse in Ubuntu?

2006-11-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Terrence van Ettinger, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 00:34:23 -0900, a écrit : > Is there any way to control the mouse via the keyboard? That's a standard Xorg feature: Press shift-numlock, then the numpad lets you move the mouse. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@list

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis, le Tue 07 Nov 2006 21:22:39 +, a écrit : > There's nothing wrong with having sensible defaults, but I struggle to > believe there is a set of magic bindings which work on all hardware. Even on Apple Mac hardware ? The keyboard is really far from PC keyboards... Wouldn't

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 07:51:39 +1100, a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:48:57AM EST, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It is also known as "right alt": that's the key just on the right side > > of the space bar. It is used for expending what can be typed on

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 07:43:42 +1100, a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:35:47AM EST, Bill Haneman wrote: > > Agreed, but doesn't orca use arrow keys for many of its functions? > > I know there are lots of keys which AltGr doesn't appear to "do" > > anything with. > > I have never

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Haneman, le Tue 07 Nov 2006 20:35:47 +, a écrit : > > Yes, but it's widely used for typing ~, #, {, [, |, `, \, ^, @, ], }, > > €, «, », œ, æ, ß, ... > > Agreed, but doesn't orca use arrow keys for many of its functions? I use altgr-arrows for producing ←→↑↓ :) > I know there are lots o

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Haneman, le Tue 07 Nov 2006 20:15:53 +, a écrit : > AltGr is one that often gets forgotten; what about that? It does appear > to be a modifier key on all the systems I am aware of. Yes, but it's widely used for typing ~, #, {, [, |, `, \, ^, @, ], }, €, «, », œ, æ, ß, ... Samuel -- U

Re: Orca on laptops.

2006-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 06:21:58 +1100, a écrit : > So what modifier key would you like to use for Orca? Couldn't this be just configurable? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: BRLTTY ignores option for attributes table

2006-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Wed 18 Oct 2006 15:48:49 +0200, a écrit : > Simon Bienlein wrote: > > I tested BRLTTY and Orca with the ubuntu cd of October 8. After the > > jingle, I pressed strg+alt+F1 and entered the following command: > > > > sudo brltty -a text.de -b ht -d ttyS0 > > > > > > > > Th

Re: Software: MIDI Seqs, Graphical Devel Tools

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Claeys, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 20:44:18 +0200, a écrit : > Op dinsdag 10-10-2006 om 20:28 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Samuel > Thibault: > > Jan Claeys, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 20:17:48 +0200, a écrit : > > > Glade-the-application is graphical, but .glade files are just XML of &

Re: Software: MIDI Seqs, Graphical Devel Tools

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Claeys, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 20:17:48 +0200, a écrit : > Op dinsdag 10-10-2006 om 16:26 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Samuel > Thibault: > > Since it is for graphical interfaces, glade is graphical. > > Glade-the-application is graphical, but .glade files are just XML of >

Re: Software: MIDI Seqs, Graphical Devel Tools

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 17:23:19 +0300, a écrit : > >> Any tools you could recommend for writing C-apps and editing Gnome > >> GUis? > > For editing Gnome GUIs, glade should be accessible. > Is it text based or graphical, by the way. It is not that big a difference > in this case. I'

Re: Semi OT: Unix Philosophy and Accessibility, MIDI Seqs, Editors and Devel Tools

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 16:47:59 +0300, a écrit : > personally, I've got a practical attitude to computing. I use the OS > because it's got software I need for doing stuff e.g. driving MIDI synths, > recording multi-track audio or word processing to mention a few things. ARe > the

Re: A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Krister Ekstrom, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 14:13:09 +0200, a écrit : > > But once learned, this is a very efficient approach. Yes, it means > > learning. Well, yes, bare unix will probably be for programmers for > > long. > > > Yes and it's sad because unix/Linux is a powerful system but unless it > do

Re: Making the Command-Line Friendlier

2006-10-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 14:00:31 +0300, a écrit : > > Indeed. But gnome & co implement it of course. > I'm glad they did. I suppose KDE has one, too. DOes the Gnome trash also > handle terminals running on the desktop? No, it can only intercept gnome actions, not actions of ap

Re: A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 21:21:16 +0300, a écrit : > So what I'll use in stead nearly always is ls -1. Yeah, that's a usual option for accessibility. > And I'd like to make that the default including piping it to the more > or less commands. ls always uses -1 when piped (for permitt

Re: A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 18:31:23 +0200, a écrit : > > This sentence says three or four things in a long, hard-to-understand style > > with two sets of parentheses in it. > > Well, you're welcome to rephrase it and submit it Don't take me wrong: I'

Re: A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 18:57:56 +0300, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> LS output is very speech unfriendly, > > What do you mean? Because it speaks all file names? > WIth this in mind the ls -l ordering and formatting is quite bad. For > example: &

Re: Available text-to-speech software for linux

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jonathan Duddington, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 13:07:02 +0100, a écrit : > The LarsWiki list is incomplete. There's also eSpeak: > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Then please notify LarsWiki people. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

Re: Available text-to-speech software for linux

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, LarsWiki probably has a list http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background)

2006-10-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 09:09:08 +0300, a écrit : > LS output is very speech unfriendly, What do you mean? Because it speaks all file names? > silence on success feels disconcerting, Isn't the prompt spoken ? > having to specify that you want a confirmation appears to negate

Re: BrlTTY / orca

2006-10-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Wed 04 Oct 2006 16:45:18 +0300, a écrit : > I'm natively running Windows XP and Dolphin Supernova 7, which is a combined > screen reader and magnifier. WIthin WIndows I have a pair of virtual serial > ports com 1 and com 2 that are connected like a null-modem cable. >

Re: BrlTTY / orca

2006-10-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Wed 04 Oct 2006 09:20:12 +0300, a écrit : > I'm trying to set up both brlTTY and the gnome-orca package and am running > into a similar problem. I've written the BrlTTY config for my Voyager > display. When running brlTTY, however, it brailles that it cannot find a > text

Re: braille displays/notetakers and ubuntu

2006-09-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, MICHAEL WEAVER, le Sun 24 Sep 2006 20:03:12 +0100, a écrit : > Could anyone give me any suggestions as to displays/notetakers that will > work with Ubuntu? See http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/ (when it is available again) for a list of supported hardware. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailin

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