Re: mozilla speech fails.

[Christopher Moore <christopher h moore verizon net>]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 06:27:36PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> Ok, I have grabbed the mozilla accessibility tarball, removed the old
> mozilla packages from my system, and extracted it in testers home directory,
> and created a launcher for it.
> when I launch the mozilla app I'm still not getting any speech with
> gnopernicus. It remains silent until I close the mozilla window.
> Any more thoughts?
> 
Yeh, wait for Mark's fourth presentation on acbradio main menu.  Maybe
he'll have some tricks to offer.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>
> To: Thomas D. Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>
> Cc: Gnome Accessibility List <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:28 AM
> Subject: Re: mozilla speech fails.
> 
> 
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > > I've successfully compiled gnopernicus, currently using festival for a
> > > synth, and I am able to navigate the gnome desktop, gnome main menu, and
> > > use some apps like gedit and the gnome cd player with almost no
> problems.
> > > However, when I go to the main menu, goto the internet menu, and select
> > > mozilla or mozilla-mail speech stops. I can hit keys, and nothing
> > > happens. Gnopernicus completely stops talking.
> > > It also does this in the gnucash financial software and in ggnumeric
> > > which I was truly hoping to look at. Any ideas why this happens, and is
> > > there a solution?
> >
> > For Mozilla, you need to use the right version (one that implements
> > Accessibility API support, and isn't shipping yet).
> >
> > See ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/accessibility/ (and specifically
> > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/accessibility/redhat7.3/2003-03-14/ )
> for
> > the latest builds of (the not yet shipping) accessible Mozilla.
> >
> > I'm sorry to say that the shipping versions of gnucash and gnumeric
> likewise
> > don't support the accessibility API.  I don't know what their timelines
> are
> > for moving to GTK+ 2 and accessibility support.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
> 
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