If you are looking for an accessible version of Ubuntu that has a built in
screen reader and magnifier and can be installed and run out of the box
without vision, check out the Vinux Project at:
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been optimized for
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screen magnification, many other features and support for USB Braille
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Hosts Peter Torpey and Nancy Goodman Torpey devote this entire show to
Vinux, a fully accessible and easy to use computer operating system. Besides
describing how it works, they interview two of its
It seems to me one of the big frustrations with Ubuntu is that these
important tasks are not easily accessible for the blind user.
It should be an easy and straightforward task for a blind person to at least
install the OS without having to search around for documentation and hints
on what magic
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o what distro can do the things you mentioned currently?
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From: Peter Torpey ptorpe...@gmail.com
Sandy,
If you are a new Linux user, you might want to try the Vinux distribution of
Linux. This was specifically put together with accessibility concerns in
mind.
Although Ubuntu can be used with speech and a magnifier, performance with
speech seems to be somewhat erratic and unreliable. Also,
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 with Orca and brltty.
Everything was running fine until I tried to see if I could get a NetGear
WG111 USB Wi-Fi device to work.
I got into the Hardware settings and, after the program searched around for
a bit, it said it couldn't find a driver. Of course, this
[PT] Agreed. This is a big issue and I also hope some work is being done to
address this.
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Yes. Just after posting my last note, I noticed this post of yours.
This was working when I first installed Jaunty, then I must have changed
some settings.
There are many choices in the various Sounds settings with which I am not
familiar. For example, I have many entries for halxxx, along
Same problem here with Ubuntu 9.04.
Also, Control+Alt+Delete doesn't seem to perform a reboot (when I get into
trouble) as I thought it should.
--Pete
From: mike kb8...@verizon.net
Subject: karmic problem is fixed but here is another one
To: ubuntu ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Mike,
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How about the Vinux CD? This should have all the accessibility stuff on it
you need. It is build from Ubuntu specifically for people using screen
readers and/or magnifiers.
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Pete
13 Jun 2009 09:23:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: mike kb8...@verizon.net
Subject: does anyone know of a
I have two USB audio devices.
I have ORCA set to speak out of one of these devices.
Unfortunantely, when I reboot, the usual bongo sound which indicates
it's safe to log in is coming out of the second audio device (whose
speakers I usually ahve turned off since this is for my music
playback).
From the instructions page on the Orca web site, I tried to configure
Grade 2 braille. I've restarted the computer, but still, Orca has no
choice for enabling Grade 2 as it should.
Perhaps there is some other configuration setting not mentioned in the
instructions?
Here are the commands I
Thanks for the suggestions on Thunderbirdf, flat review mode, etc. I'll get
on the Orca bug list and follow up with some of these issues.
Anyway, I have a few more questions about Thunderbird:
1. 1. What is the best way to open and read a message in Thunderbird?
I haven't been able
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Hi,
On 06/06/09 15:59, Peter Torpey wrote:
1. 1. What is the best way to open and read a message in
Thunderbird? I haven't been able to do this without performing a lot
of tabbing. I'm used to just hitting enter
I reported not being able to get into the message of a message by
hitting enter or F6.
I was going to try and change from HTML view to text view as suggested,
but then I restarted Ubuntu.
After restarting Ubuntu and loggin in agin, all seems to work this time.
Thus, maybe this was a startup
Okay, thanks to several suggestions on this list, I installed the latest
Thunderbird beta rather than using Orca.
Although I can open and read messages in Thunderbird with Orca, I don't see
how to easily do it.
When I hit enter on a message, I'm put in some kind of shredder app window
and
Using the desktop keyboard layout in Orca, the documentation says that
hitting the NumPad - should toggle into and out of Flat Review mode.
First of all, Orca never announces whether I am in flat review mode or not,
so I never know whether or not I'm actually in this mode.
Also, when I use
One more Thunderbird question.
When running Thunderbird, I got into the ORCA preferences to see if there
were any special ORCA hotkeys for use with Thunderbird. I didn't see any.
It got me to thinking if there was something else I was supposed to install
besides just the beta version of
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 with a PacMate display connected via USB. Braille
is working fine, but I'm wondering how to turn on braille translation so
that I can view braille in grade 2.
Thanks.
--Pete
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I set up my mail account in Evolution, but can't seem to easily red HTML
messages.
When I hit enter on a message to red it with Orca, the braille display says
something like panel is showing HTML, but the message can't be read.
I figured out that I could read the message with Orca if I hit
like enable carot navigation which
lets you arrow around read-only emails as if it was editable text. It
should be in the menus somewhere.
If this doesn't work I hope someone else can answer this for you.
Paul
On 31/05/09 21:14, Peter Torpey wrote:
I set up my mail account in Evolution
.
In there is a combo box for picking the card you want to use. I imagine
Orca will speak through the default card. Might take a reboot.
Paul
On 27/05/09 15:02, Peter Torpey wrote:
I had a strange experience with my sound devices when installing Ubuntu with
Orca. Also, I have a question on how
Although this problem is rectified now (I don't know how), I thought it was
worth reporting to the list to see if anyone has any ideas what is going on.
My setup is Windows XP Pro running on a Dell desktop, 2.66 GHz CPU, XP Pro,
1.25 GB Ram, 3 Hard disk partitions each about 100 GB.
What I
I had a strange experience with my sound devices when installing Ubuntu with
Orca. Also, I have a question on how to have Orca come out of a particular
sound device.
First, here is my (slightly unusual) setup:
- I have Windows XP Pro installed, and Ubuntu installed on a
separate
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 onto a separate partition on my PC which had Windows
XP Pro previously installed.
I have a Pacmate display (from Freedom Scientific) hooked up to my desktop
PC via a USB cable.
During the install of Ubuntu, I had choices only for installing with speech
or braille
Is it possible to install Ubuntu 9.04 using speech only and get everything
running?
If so, how? I haven't seen anything on the install CD that indicates how to
do this.
Thanks.
n Pete
e-mail: ptor...@rochester.rr.com
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I am considering getting a small, NetBook computer running Linux for times
when we are traveling or on vacation.
My questions are:
1.If I purchase something like an Asus EEE PC running Linux, will I
be able to load and run Orca on it in order to make it accessible to me?
2.
I loaded up Ubuntu with Orca recently. Since I'm still getting used to
understanding the Orca speech synthesizer (I'm a JAWS/Eloquence user), I've
been trying to read as much of the on-line documentation on how to use Orca
as possible before I run Ubuntu (or Vinux) much more.
I've seen
[PT] I loaded Ubuntu 8.1 into a VMWare virtual machine to test drive Ubuntu
before I commit putting it on my Windows PC. It's a bit sluggish, but it
seems to work.
[PT]
Anyway, I got Orca to work fine (out of a USB sound card even!), but can't
get the braille to work.
I have tried both a
My Dell desktop PC has an internal sound card (which I don't use), as well
as two external USB sound cards (which I do use). The external cards are a
SoundBlaster Live and an EMU 0202.
Since I am blind, I will be using Orca when installing Ubuntu. How can I
configure Ubuntu to use one of
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