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 versions all the time. I wanted to try out the mainstream, true blue Ubuntu to see what all cool new packages it offered and how Orca behaved in it with an unmodified Pulse Audio configuration. Wherever possible, I do like to use things as closely to the way in which my sighted friends do as I am able. The results were highly discouraging. I couldn't get it to talk at all. I tried all sorts of things and nothing worked. I couldn't get orca to turn on and I understand sound is muted by default? They ought to at least have something trigger the system bell to beep when you arrow over the blind user profile or something. I hit f5 and 3. I also arrowed down 3 times. Nothing, zilch, nada. I never found out what version of Orca comes installed on it, what kind of speech synth is on it or any of that. I gave up and went running back to Vinux which is not the least bit bashful and tells you just exactly what's on its mind. I figure I'll create a Maverick-based virtual machine and then upgrade it to Natty to see how that turns out since I'll have orca running when I do that. I wonder if it will upgrade at-spi up to at-spi2 for me and all that. It's another reason I'm keen to try it out since I have long been curious about taking the as yet unfinished qt-at-spi out for what I am sure wil be a bumpy spin. I think it's important that as many advanced Linux users of accessible technology try this thing out since it looks like things were getting pretty close there for a moment and it would be a shame to have this fizzle out resulting in another prolonged wait for something to be done about qt accessibility.
anyway, that's my Natty experience for what it's worth. Thanks. Alex M On 5/6/11, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > As for question one, Ubuntu 11 comes with Gnome 3. As you probably are > aware I think we are all in the same boat with Gnome 3. They've broken > some things, accessibility wise, that use to work in Gnome 2.32 and > earlier. > > As for question two, where is the system menu, I haven't figured that > one out yet myself. I have however come up with a quick and dirty work > around and if you know the name of the system application to simply > open run and enter the name into the run dialog. That's the only way I > know to change your screensaver, keyboard settings, gdm settings, etc > without getting to the system menu itself. Personally, I'm inclined to > go back to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS until all this stuff is resolved with > Gnome 3 as it seems less accessible than previous versions. > > HTH > On 5/5/11, Andy B. <sonfir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I finally got Ubuntu 11.04 installed as a wubi image. Got a chance to play >> around with it and it looks pretty cool. I can't quite tell what desktop >> I'm >> using, but it looks possibly like gnome to me. There is a launcher bar on >> the top of the screen with things like home, applications, ubuntu1, Ubuntu >> software center, firefox, the office apps, workspace switcher and trash. >> Below the launcher bar is a menu bar that has things like file, edit, >> view, >> messages, calendar/clock, network and quite a few more. Below this menu >> bar >> is an empty space (assuming it is the desktop icon area). My questions, >> what >> happened to places and system? And once I find them, how do you open the >> menu itself? Pressing enter on applications just brings up some places >> window where you can type/search for something. >> > _______________________________________________ > orca-list mailing list > orca-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. > The manual is at > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions > Netiquette Guidelines are at > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
