Re: screen reader

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

I'm sorry I didn't explain the full interaction of the text based setup 
for Orca.  Here's a session:

wwalker laptop:~/Downloads/work/orca/trunk$ orca -t
Welcome to Orca setup.
Select desired speech server.
1. Fonix DECtalk GNOME Speech Driver
2. Swift GNOME Speech Driver
3. eSpeak GNOME Speech Driver
Enter choice: 2
Select desired voice:
1. Callie (en-us)
2. David (en-us)
3. Diane (en-us)
Enter choice: 1
Enable echo by word?  Enter y or n: y
Enable key echo?  Enter y or n: n
Select desired keyboard layout.
1. Desktop
2. Laptop
Enter choice: 1
Enable Braille?  Enter y or n: y
Enable Braille Monitor?  Enter y or n: n
Automatically start orca when you log in?  Enter y or n: y
Accessibility support for GNOME has just been enabled.
You need to log out and log back in for the change to take effect.
Do you want to logout now?  Enter y or n: y
Setup complete. Logging out now.

Will

Steve Lee wrote:
> 2009/4/2 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com>:
> > So, you might be running into #2 and the situation where accessibility has
> > not been enabled.  In this case, Orca is asking you things such as which
> > speech synthesizer you want to use, if you want key echo, etc.  If you
> > answer the questions, then Orca will have the information it needs.  You
> > then need to logout and log back in for accessibility to be enabled and Orca
> > should function normally.
>
> Would it be worth adding a one line text prompt that explains that at
> the start of the cmd line prompts? Assuming you know the reason for
> asking them is as GNOME a11y is off.
>
> Steve Lee