gmane.linux.gentoo.accessibility

Firefox and Thunderbird no longer work with Orca on my system

John Robinson — 2013-03-10T10:41:00

Hi everyone.  I wonder if anyone could advise on the following.  Firefox 
and Thunderbird used to work very well on my Gentoo system. I recently 
had to re-install everything from scratch, however and now, neither 
Firefox (now known as 'Aurora') nor Thunderbird (now known as 
'Earlybird') work with Orca at all.  In both programs, Orca only speaks 
the title bar, followed by the word 'Inaccessible'.  
Apart from this, my Gnome-light desktop appears to be working as it 
should.  My version of Firefox is 17.0.3.  My version of Thunderbird is 
also 17.0.3 and my version of Orca is 2.32.1.  My Gentoo kernel is 
3.7.10 and my system's architecture is x86_64.  If you need any more 
information to enable you to help, please let me know.

Many thanks for any advice you can offer.

Yours faithfully,

John Robinson

Accessibility topic of LSM 2013

Samuel Thibault — 2013-02-19T00:30:47

                                   
LSM/RMLL 2013
                 14th Libre Software Meeting
                      July 6-11, 2013
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discussions and practical workshops based on Libre/Free Software and
its uses. Its aim is to provide a platform for Libre/Free Software
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Access to LSM is free of charge

Re: Numeric keypad causes machine to freeze when using Speakup under Gentoo 3.4.9

John Robinson — 2012-10-07T20:25:54

Many thanks for letting me know.  I contacted the Speakup mailing list who 
sent me a patch which I've used to fix the problem for now in Gentoo 3.4. 
I look forward to the release of Gentoo 3.7.

Many thanks,

John




On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, William Hubbs wrote:

Re: Numeric keypad causes machine to freeze when using Speakup under Gentoo 3.4.9

William Hubbs — 2012-10-06T14:19:37

Hi John,

This is a known issue which started in 3.4 kernels with speakup. It was
fixed in the kernel git tree, but it looks like the fix will be in 3.7.

Thanks,

William

Is speechd-up available for a new installation

Cleverson Casarin Uliana — 2012-09-14T22:18:04

Dear, is it currently possible to use Speech-dispatcher plus speechd-up 
to speech-enable a new Gentoo installation before booting into it? If 
so, how is it done exactly?

Thank you,
Cleverson

Numeric keypad causes machine to freeze when using Speakup under Gentoo 3.4.9

John Robinson — 2012-09-06T20:43:29

Hi everyone. Apologies if this is a bit off topic, but I can't tell if
the problem I'm having is related to Speakup itself or the way I've
compiled my kernel.

Until very recently, I used Gentoo version 3.3.8 and compiled the
Speakup staging driver as a module. I used this with the Espeak
softsynth and the Espeakup connector.  My numeric keypad worked exactly
as it should do under Speakup.

I have now upgraded to Gentoo 3.4.9 and recompiled my kernel.  I still
use its Speakup staging driver built as a module, along with Espeak and
Espeakup.  My problem now is that, whenever Speakup is running and I
press any key on my numeric keypad, my whole computer freezes. I can't
reboot it with CTRL+ALT+Delete and have to turn it off by holding the
power button in for a few seconds.

I have no idea what is causing this and can find no clues in the Speakup
user guide or the Speakup FAQs.  I would very much appreciate any advice
anyone has as to how to get my numeric keypad to work as it should under
Speakup.  It works pe

Health & Accessibility topic of LSM 2012

Samuel Thibault — 2012-03-01T01:27:30

LSM/RMLL 2012
                 13th Libre Software Meeting
                      July 7-12, 2012
                     Geneva, SWITZERLAND
                   http://2012.rmll.info/
              Call For Papers and Participation
           limited on health & accessibility topic
     [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message]
         Last call before deadline : march *31* 2012


The 13th Libre Software Meeting (LSM) takes place in Geneva,
Switzerland, July 7-12 2012 (http://2012.rmll.info/).

LSM is an annual non-commercial conference on Libre Softwares that
includes round tables and practical workshops. The objective is
to provide a place where users, developers and promoters of Libre
Software can exchange ideas and information. Attendance is free and
open to everyone. 

Each year the health & accessibility workshop is held as part of
this broader meeting.  This year, it will be organized

RE: speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

Shane Davidson — 2011-11-30T02:31:21

Hello;
So it's gonna require a recompile of the kernel. This is gonna be fun.
I'll send Gentoo-user a message noting the resolution of the matter.
Thanks for the help.
Shane
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From: William Hubbs [mailto:w.d.hubbs-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of William Hubbs
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:29 PM
To: gentoo-accessibility-cnFmAm88PdgLnqt3yJz4RQ< at >public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1
and 2.6.36 isn't available.

Hi Shane,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:28:09PM -0500, Shane Davidson wrote:
phase):

This is because speakup is in the staging drivers in the kernel source for
newer kernels.

You should run make menuconfig, then go to device drivers, staging drivers,
then you will find speakup there.

Let me know if you need any more assistance.

Thanks,

William

Re: speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

William Hubbs — 2011-11-30T02:28:40

Hi Shane,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:28:09PM -0500, Shane Davidson wrote:

This is because speakup is in the staging drivers in the kernel source
for newer kernels.

You should run make menuconfig, then go to device drivers, staging
drivers, then you will find speakup there.

Let me know if you need any more assistance.

Thanks,

William

speakup won't compile with kernel 3.1.1 and 2.6.36 isn't available.

Shane Davidson — 2011-11-30T01:28:09

Hello all;

I've been a Gentoo user for awhile, and installed  a knew VM, using the
latest available kernel, 3.1.1.

When speakup attempts to install I get

* ERROR: app-accessibility/speakup-3.1.6_p201011120508 failed (setup phase):

Great, ok, so I further look into it, looks like it wants kernel 2.6.36.

This is no longer available, attempt to compile anything less then 2.6.36
I'm told it requires 2.6.36 kernel.

Also, speakup hasn't been updated since around this time last year.

So, thoughts, ideas, suggestions for getting this fixed?

Thanks for any assistance.

Shane

no speech in GDM even after enabling related variables

Cleverson Casarin Uliana — 2011-07-21T00:24:16

Hello,

I installed the stable Gnome 2.32 as found in the current portage tree, 
then I followed along the instructions in the accessible login page of 
the Orca wiki, but no success. Here are the commands I have echoed at 
gnome-terminal, in this order:

su
chsh -s /bin/bash gdm
su - gdm
gconftool-2 --set --type bool  /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
gconftool-2 --set --type bool 
/desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled true
exit
chsh -s /sbin/nologin gdm

Then I added the gdm user to the audiio group in /etc/group.

After verifying that Orca was still not speaking, I went to 
gnome-terminal again and ran as root gdmsetup, then enabled 
accessibility in its respective tab, yet Orca remains silent at gdm. Any 
tip please?

Thank you,
Cleverson

Re: Unable to open the soft_synth device

Cleverson Casarin Uliana — 2011-07-21T00:16:27

OK, I discovered a possible bug related to my problem below. Whenever I 
enable the speakup_soft module as built in to the kernel, it doesn't 
creat the softsynth device during boot. Compiling it as an external 
module and configuring it to be loaded automatically works fine.

Cheers
Cleverson

Em 10/7/2011 12:42, Cleverson Casarin Uliana escreveu:

Unable to open the soft_synth device

Cleverson Casarin Uliana — 2011-07-10T15:42:43

Hello all:

After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 to 2.6.38-gentoo-r6, 
Espeakup complains it's unable to find and open the soft_synth device at 
boot. In order to upgrade the kernel, I used the .config file from the 
older kernel, however I made sure to enter the device drivers/staging 
drivers and select the speakup core and soft_synth options. I made both 
built-in to the kernel. Do you have any hint what's happening?

Thanks,
Cleverson

LSM from 9th to 14th july 2011

Samuel Thibault — 2011-06-19T20:04:57

Hello,

The Libre Software Meeting (LSM, RMLL) will take place from 9th to 14th
july 2011 in Strasbourg. All the information are available on
http://rmll.info

For people who would like lost-cost accomodation, reservations are now
open.

Reservation is recommended anyway, to get a badge and Internet access.

Samuel

Re: it works! Mostly

Derek Roberts — 2011-04-24T19:07:46

Hey all,
Still trying to figure this out. I re-emerged at-spi-registryd, dbus
and gconf with all the debugging stuff, and tried running
/usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd in gdb. Here's what I get:
Starting program: /usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

(process:10250): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2710: You forgot to
call g_type_init()

(process:10250): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion
`G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(process:10250): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
`G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7c502b8 in set_engine (client=0x0, engine=0x8056030) at gconf-client.c:275
275       if (engine == client->engine)
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7c502b8 in set_engine (client=0x0, engine=0x8056030) at
gconf-client.c:275
#1  0xb7c50845 in gconf_client_get_default () at gconf-client.c:466
#2  0x080507de in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffeee4) at registry-main.c:201
I also get this in syslog-ng's conso

RE: brltty

mattias — 2011-04-16T09:27:25

I try
Gentoo brltty=vo
I own a tieman braille voyager usb

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From: William Hubbs [mailto:w.d.hubbs-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of William Hubbs
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 1:33 AM
To: gentoo-accessibility-cnFmAm88PdgLnqt3yJz4RQ< at >public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] brltty


On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:24:49PM +0200, mattias wrote:

No, it should still be there.

What happened when you tried to load it? What did you do to try to load it?


William

Re: brltty

William Hubbs — 2011-04-15T23:33:06

No, it should still be there.

What happened when you tried to load it? What did you do to try to load
it?


William

brltty

mattias — 2011-04-15T18:24:49

I try to load brltty on the gentoo 2011 minimal cd
Not work
Are brltty removed?

it works! Mostly

Derek Roberts — 2011-03-27T20:19:55

Hi all,

First, thanks to the devs for getting this all working! I installed
Gentoo using the live cd from March 8 a couple weeks ago (speakup and
espeakup work!). Had some initial issues (I forgot to put the
filesystem type for /dev/sda5 in /etc/fstab for my root partition!),
but it's been up for about a week now. I tried emerging gnome and
xorg-server a couple days ago, and am having this weird problem. After
I start gnome, I get orca's welcome message, but nothing else. I tried
logging into a console as my normal user, and setting DISPLAY to :0.
When I tried loading orca from there, I got an error saying it
couldn't find or activate the at-spi-registry daemon. So, I tried
starting /usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd manually. It gave me several
assertion errors, and segfaulted. Out of curiosity, I tried starting
at-spi-registryd from my debian filesystem copy. That ran ok (it did
throw a couple errors, but it stayed running), so I started orca. It
came up fine, and that's where I am now. I can start apps from m

input is needed from low vision users

William Hubbs — 2011-03-08T17:38:04

All,

I have been asked by our bugzilla administrator to have low vision users
look at bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/357719.

Please take a look and let us know if the gray background is an issue.

Thanks,

--
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org

Seeking advice on accessibility for low-mobility user

S. Lockwood-Childs — 2011-02-12T19:26:51

I know a skilled programmer/cryptologist who can no longer use a
keyboard. He has an EyeGaze system (http://www.eyegaze.com/)
but apparently the software that comes with it kind of stinks so 
he's getting very frustrated. The method of using EyeGaze to control a 
Windows PC via a serial port is supposedly based on a documented
standard, so I think setting it up to control a Linux PC should be doable.

I'm a complete novice in the topic of accessibility, so any
advice that applies to handling low mobility with Free Software 
would be much appreciated.

Some specific questions I've turned up so far:

* Anyone have experience with dasher? 
  Can you configure dasher to handle the whole desktop, including menus?
  If so, does that require everything be a gnome app to work properly?

* Does Linux have any support for the standard called GIDEI, short for
  General Input Device Emulating Interface? (This is what EyeGaze uses 
  for Windows control)
  http://www.eyegaze.com/content/skeys-program
  http://trace.wisc.