Orca and xfce
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
Hello list, i'm a blind user and I use the Orca screen reader. I've been working on getting Orca to work with xfce. So far everything has been going really well. So far I've been able to make the xfce desktop accessible along with the xfce menu and other programs such as pidgin. Here is a problem that I'm having. When I open firefox and thunderbird Orca can't read anything in these programs. Using the gnome desktop both of these programs are very accessible. So i'm not sure what I could be missing. I noticed that there is a package firefox-gnome-support and this was already installed. I also installed gedit and this application was accessible without having to do anything to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This would be a big boost for the blind community to have a light and fast desktop to use as an alternative to Gnome. Thanks for your time and help. I'm not an IT guru but reading the info on orca makes me wonder about your settings. Orca has default settings and then also able to write scripts for application specific. That is where i think the problem is... i'm sorry i can't help further but i'm sympathetic as i used to work for the blind community and my sister was a Guide Dog Instructor for many years. You mentioned Firefox and Thunderbird. I used to use both applications and had problems; Firefox always seem to run slow and Thunderbird slow for imap. Thunderbird has had a number of technical problems but i haven't used it now for two years - Alpine is old and well proven so it won me instantly. I switched to xubuntu using Chrome browser and Alpine for mail - all seem to use less resources and no problems. james -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel |
Orca and xfce
Johnatan, while you wait for a better response you could try alternative browers, like the xfce's project one Midori, you can also try Chromium?
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Orca and xfce
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Bruno Benitez wrote:
Johnatan, while you wait for a better response you could try alternative browers, like the xfce's project one Midori, you can also try Chromium? -- Bruno.- I did a bit of 'browser research' a few months ago. I found Chrome the least buggy and it seems google do a bit of tidying on chromium. You can remove the google tracking on chrome if you wish [some folk don't like google logging their use!]. james -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel |
Orca and xfce
Sadly Orca doesn't work with webkit. There is a package being worked on
called webkit-gtk but it is not finished yet. On 09/18/2012 06:08 PM, James Freer wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Bruno Benitez wrote: Johnatan, while you wait for a better response you could try alternative browers, like the xfce's project one Midori, you can also try Chromium? -- Bruno.- I did a bit of 'browser research' a few months ago. I found Chrome the least buggy and it seems google do a bit of tidying on chromium. You can remove the google tracking on chrome if you wish [some folk don't like google logging their use!]. james -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel |
orca and xfce
Hello list,
Thansk for all of your help and suggestions. Here is my last problem. I have all of xfce accessible except for two programs. The two programs are Firefox and Thunderbird. When I go to the menu and open these programs they open but Orca doesn't read the programs like they normally do. I thought maybe the problem was that this version of programs for some reason weren't accessible. So right now I'm running xubuntu 12.10 and I installed the gnome desktop where both of these programs are accessible normally. I logged out and logg into Gnome and Firefox and Thunderbird were accessible. Then I logged out of Gnome and back into xfce and they both weren't accessible again.Does anyone have any ideas of why this could be happening? -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users |
orca and xfce
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
Hello list, Thansk for all of your help and suggestions. Here is my last problem. I have all of xfce accessible except for two programs. The two programs are Firefox and Thunderbird. When I go to the menu and open these programs they open but Orca doesn't read the programs like they normally do. I thought maybe the problem was that this version of programs for some reason weren't accessible. So right now I'm running xubuntu 12.10 and I installed the gnome desktop where both of these programs are accessible normally. I logged out and logg into Gnome and Firefox and Thunderbird were accessible. Then I logged out of Gnome and back into xfce and they both weren't accessible again.Does anyone have any ideas of why this could be happening? Are you running 12.10? That to be released in October so you're trying to run a beta version of xubuntu not yet released! Use 12.04 until 12.10 is released - once released problems are sorted out. You say your logging into gnome? why I have been using xubuntu for two years [used ubuntu 6.10 to 9.10] and have to say i have found xubuntu very reliable and have only come across two known bugs in that time. james -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users |
orca and xfce
On 20/09/12 20:13, James Freer wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: Hello list, Thansk for all of your help and suggestions. Here is my last problem. I have all of xfce accessible except for two programs. The two programs are Firefox and Thunderbird. When I go to the menu and open these programs they open but Orca doesn't read the programs like they normally do. I thought maybe the problem was that this version of programs for some reason weren't accessible. So right now I'm running xubuntu 12.10 and I installed the gnome desktop where both of these programs are accessible normally. I logged out and logg into Gnome and Firefox and Thunderbird were accessible. Then I logged out of Gnome and back into xfce and they both weren't accessible again.Does anyone have any ideas of why this could be happening? Are you running 12.10? That to be released in October so you're trying to run a beta version of xubuntu not yet released! Use 12.04 until 12.10 is released - once released problems are sorted out. Wouldn't it be better to report bugs early - they might stand a chance of being fixed prior to release. You say your logging into gnome? why Seems pretty straight forward to me - the OP tried these apps he has an issue with in Gnome to check they were working, logged out and back into Xubuntu - not working there. I have been using xubuntu for two years [used ubuntu 6.10 to 9.10] and have to say i have found xubuntu very reliable and have only come across two known bugs in that time. I've only been using Xubuntu for 2 years - Ubuntu before that and have to say that while I have found Xubuntu very reliabel - I've come across more than two bugs ... james elfy -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users |
orca and xfce
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Elfy <ub.untu@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to report bugs early - they might stand a chance of > being fixed prior to release. I thought that... so beta 12.10 is for testing only. >> I have been using xubuntu for two years [used ubuntu 6.10 to 9.10] and >> have to say i have found xubuntu very reliable and have only come across two >> known bugs in that time. >> > I've only been using Xubuntu for 2 years - Ubuntu before that and have to > say that while I have found Xubuntu very reliabel - I've come across more > than two bugs ... > elfy Well done elfy you've found more bugs & faults with xubuntu than i have. james -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users |
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