On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:36:43AM -0200, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote: > Hi Daniel,
Hi José, > What version of ubuntu are you running? 12.10 > Are you running unity 2d or unity 3d? Not sure, is there a method to check? I just installed straight from the livecd as of last night, so what would that likely mean? > > >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? > > The win key or the alt+f1 is used to see the list of the prefered > applications or the running applications. > I never found how to se all applications using unity 2d. Yes I'm finding the same can find common application, but not all. Oh well that's not a huge problem for me atm. > > >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? > > Personally I prefer gnome-shell, but canonical decided to adopt > unity as the default. I suppose I'll try gnome-shell on ubuntu then I can decide which one to go with easily. I'm use to gnome-shell so maybe that's why I'm having some bad luck with unity. > >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? > Did you try the f10 key to access the menu bar? Does not work. If I press alt by itself I hear somethin hud or hub. Using arrows does not do anything here though. I'll try gnome-shell though and hopefully this problem might disappear. > > >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 can not say about this topic, but I think that it is not so easy > revert to alsa in ubuntu. Yes, your probably right. > > >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? > > > you do not need build speakup in ubuntu because there is a package. > sudo apt-get install speakup espeakup Thanks for clarifying made it a lot easier!:) > The problem is that you can not use speakup and the gui environment > using the same login. > What I do in general is to login in the console as root and su - my > real login. Hmm, this is very interesting. Do we know why yet? Because would speakup/espeakup be running as root anyway? Maybe this is a pulseaudio issue again similar to what I found on debian, but then again it also seems quite different. I shall keep investigating anyway. > >I hope this can help in some way. It is very helpful, thank you very much. Daniel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
