how do you use synaptic? with orca? -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fran: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Lawlor Skickat: den 7 augusti 2008 21:28 Till: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List Amne: Re: Screen Reader
Hi Carl: To answer this question on the state of readyness regarding Orca, the screen reader built into Ubuntu, we must ask the question: What does this person want to use the screen reader for? I use it here every day for reading my mail using Thunderbird 3.0, browse the web with firefox, doing various things with gnome-terminal, listening to music with the totum movie player, text editing with gedit, word processing with open office, using various administration tools such as synaptic package manager, network-manager, gdmsetup, plus others. Regarding reading mail with Thunderbird: it will be necessary for this person to download the latest nightly build from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/. This is a tar ball which the user must extract into a directory, I use my home directory, and then he will execute the thunderbird shell script inside the thunderbird directory which will be created by decompressing the thunderbird tar ball. The reason that the user must perform this step is because Thunderbird 2.0, which is shipped with ubuntu, does not contain the necessary accessibility requirements for Orca to work with it. If this user is more used to using Microsoft outlook for email he can use Evolution, which is reported to work well with Orca. I don't use this email client myself so can't comment on it directly. I don't know if the above comments have been helpful but feel free to write back to the list with more questions. Doug Carl Wuensche wrote: > Is there any update on more support for the screen reader? I have a > friend whom is blind, he'd love to use Ubuntu but the screen reader > isn't that great yet. He is using JAWS for windows. > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
