Has anyone ever used the dell support web page and not gone around in a circle? Their site is an accessibility violation. Could be one of the blind consumer organizations might help out after they finish with target.
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > You could quit Orca with Insert-Q: > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/KeyboardCommands > > Then press Alt+F2, type "orca", and press Enter to start Orca again when > you want to. > > Or you could mute the volume temporarily. The Dell 1420 laptop includes > a set of 7 media control button on the top right of the keyboard. > There's a group of four on the left, then a group of three on the right. > The first button in the group of three is the mute or unmute button. > There is documentation of this, but Dell have relied on diagrams rather > than putting it into a particularly accessible format: > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1420/en/OM/about.htm#wp1187428 > > It might be worth raising that issue with their customer support. > > You didn't say whether you have compiled the latest version of Orca, or > are just running an old standard package: > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall > > If it's still a problem in the latest version, you should consider > writing the Orca mailing list or filing a bug in the Gnome bug tracker: > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Bugs > > It may well turn out to be a problem with Thunderbird but the Orca > developers are probably best placed to determine that. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > Herzog wrote: >> Who can I tell my bug discoveries to so my wining gets to the right >> UBUNTU guy(s) who could help fix them.? >> >> I use Ubuntu and Orca, which came on my new Dell 1420 Laptop. >> >> I have been getting updates, I don't know whether thru Dell, Ubuntu, or ??? >> So far they have been useful. But to whom can I tell the changes that >> are bad, or still needed? >> >> For instance, now there is no way I know of to shut Orca off. > >> You wonder why I would want to!! >> The answer is that in Thunderbird, when I try to send mail, a box asks >> for THE My password, which is the one for the ISP. >> If ORCA is off, it will work, and I can send mail, or receive mail.; and >> I can check the box that says remember this password. >> I am sighted; a blind person could never cope. >> Now I can only cope by removing ORCA, signing on, remembering the >> password being checked, and then reinstall Orca. >> >> Actually I don't cope, I just use my windows XP machine and JAWS, which >> works with thunderbird fairly well, but not yet good enough for a blind >> person, (my wife) to use. She uses Eudora. >> >> I suspect that ORCA or maybe it is only the echo part of it, >> interacting, that might causes other boxes, maybe not only passwords, to >> fail Wil Herzog >> . >> > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
