Hi, do we no longer have the option of using gnome-speech? although speech-dispatcher has been made the default, it would have been better if gnome-speech was also available, at least till the time speech-dispatcher is stable enough. Thanks, Aruni.
On 10/22/2009 3:55 AM, Bill Cox wrote: > Hi, Luke. > > Thanks for working on accessibility. I feel really rotten about > complaining about the bugs without putting in effort into debugging. > However, my boss is all over me at the moment to get another project > back on schedule. I'm sure you know what that's like. > > However, over the next year, I promise to find some time to nail a bug > or two, like the crash in speech dispatcher. In the meantime, we > should probably set expectations for users, and let them know it will > be a while before Orca is working in a stable manner in the latest > Ubuntu. It's an unfortunate situation, but blind users are simply not > able to chip in and fix things when accessibility is broken, so it > will be up to the very few of us interested in accessibility who still > have decent vision to pull it off. > > Best regards, > Bill > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Luke Yelavich<them...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:46:26AM EST, Bill Cox wrote: >> >>> Sorry guys, I know there's some of you out there who actually work on >>> Ubuntu accessibility, but the current state sucks. I certainly hope >>> Ubuntu decides at some point to make accessibility a priority. >>> >> I can understand why, as a user, you feel that way. Unfortunately I am the >> only one so far as I know of, actively working on improving Ubuntu's >> accessibility, and while I do as much as I can to make things work as well >> as they can, I have other matters that I need to attend to, due to working >> for Canonical and being responsible for other parts of the desktop as well, >> so I can only do so much in the time I allocate for accessibility work. >> >> Unfortunately the speech-dispatcher crasher is at the moment, somewhat >> beyond my current skills to debug, although learning valgrind will likely >> help me get better with sed debugging, and hopefully get rid of the >> speech-dispatcher crash. >> >> So if you really want Ubuntu's accessibility to get better, I urge you to >> consider helping out in whatever way you can, even if its only filing and >> triaging bugs, thats something. The more bugs that are in a triaged state, >> the less work I have to do, and the more bugs I can attempt to fix. >> >> I hope you all understand, and will do what you can to help. >> >> Regards >> Luke >> >> -- >> 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
