Re: theHoary Live CD Array 4 & Gnpernicus

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Ian:

You asked:
> Is there a module within Gnpernicus which will provide inversion of 
> screen colours - ie white on a black background - or can anyone 
> recommend compatible accessability software to do this? 

Gnopernicus can do this via the gnome-mag interface - in order to change 
this, you'll need to go into 'magnifier preferences' in the gnopernicus 
gui, choose the "default" zoomer and select "Add/Edit zoomer".  From 
there, you will see a checkbox marked 'invert', if you select this the 
screen colors will be inverted in the magnified area.

You can do this with fullscreen magnification as well, but this is more 
complex.  See Appendix A of the GNOME 2.10 Accessibility Guide, 
available at http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/

However, most users who want white-on-black text prefer to use the 
'HighContrast Inverse' GNOME theme instead.  If Ubuntu is bundling the 
latest accessibility patches from Sun, then even most Mozilla content 
pages will display with white-on-black text using this theme.

To select a different GNOME theme, go to the 'foot' menu (not sure what 
Hoary calls this menu) on the panel (Ctrl-Esc), choose 
'Preferences'->'Desktop Preferences'->'Theme'.  (The exact menu 
structure may depend on your distribution, I don't know if the Ubuntu 
menus have been modified).  From the 'Theme Preferences' dialog, choose 
'High Contrast Inverse'.  If you want larger print and icons, you can 
choose 'details' from this dialog, select the HighContrastLargePrint 
'Controls' theme, 'Bright' or 'Atlanta' window border theme, and the 
HighContratLargePrintInverse icon set.  You can further adjust your font 
sizes from the 'Preferences'->'Desktop Preferences'->'Font' dialog.


 I also seem to
> remember that a past posting said that to use Gnpernicus with Open 
> Office a Java interface had to be installed as well; can anyone point me 
> in the right direction for this too?

I believe there is documentation in the GNOME 2.10 Accessibility Guide.

> For Information
>
> When running the CD as a boot up everything loaded fine - no error 
> messages etc - but when the accessability was activated the following 
> was experienced:
>
>  - screen magnification would only go to 2x and once there could not be 
> reverted to normal size

I don't know anything about this, and have not seen this problem before. 
 Perhaps someone from Ubuntu can help?

>  - with festival activated the only speech output were clicks and 
> whistles as the mouse was moved

Try turning off the 'sounds for events' in Desktop Preferences->Sound.
It's possible that festival itself isn't set up properly, I am not sure. 
 See the recent email from Zsolnai Laszlo about running 'test-speech' 
to help diagnose problems.

Hope that helps

Bill

> This was experienced on 2 different machines prior to loading onto a 
> dedicated machine and run from there.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
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Bill Haneman
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