Hi, I'm currently a vision impaired user of debian, but I'm trying out ubuntu and potentially looking to make a switch. However I've ran into some problems:
1. How do I see the list of all my applications? I press the windows key and then attempt to arrow around, but this does not work. I read that this is the method to view the entire application list with unity... So how to do this with orca? Also, on a bit of a side note, what is a better choice from an accessibility point of view, gnome-shell or unity? Is there some reason why unity is the default on ubuntu? 2. In Some applications are not working quite right. In Libreoffice calc when I use the arrow keys to navigate the spread sheet I do not get any spoken feedback from orca. Also in both writer and calc (possibly other apps, but that's all I've tested so far) I can not access the menu bar by using alt or alt+f. Is there a solution to this one? 3. I've just installed emacspeak from source on ubuntu, using espeak. When I run emacspeak with espeak I experience regular crashes on average one every few minutes. Obviously this is quite annoying, so I was hoping there might be a fix around. I'm also experiencing almost identical problem on debian, but my best solution so far is to revert back to alsa. Is this also the best solution for ubuntu? I'm presuming this will also be an issue when I get around to installing speakup, as it was on debian also. 4. My final problem: I'm attempting to build and install speakup as kernel modules. First I tried installing module-assistant and doing the following as root: m-a prepare m-a a-i speakup The build process failed though. Is my best option for now to build the modules from source out of git? If anyone can help with any of this I'd grately appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Daniel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
