RE: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility.
- From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:43:35 -0400
Hi,
Have you tried irssi with Orca in gnome-terminal?
thanks
Storm
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On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 22:47 -0400, Ken Perry wrote:
> Orca in 11.04 is very stable in the terminals. Before 11.04 I found
> myself switching to speakup and a console window but now I do
> everything in orca just because I can have as many consoles open as I
> want.
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> ken
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> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katherine
> Moss
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:25 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility.
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> Oh. So then if Gnome works with SuSE, (for I’d like to be acquainted
> with that distribution), does Bash, KSH, ZSH, and Onquist also work
> with Orca as well? I’m all confused over the command line in Linux
> and it’s accessibility features. You know how in windows when you
> call CMD, you get input via the same interface (JAWS, Window-Eyes), as
> you get when working with desktop and Gui components? Does the same
> go for Linux? I ask because is not Emac Speak different from Orca,
> and depending on which environment you want, you have to keep
> switching between them? If so, then it sounds kind of cumbersome,
> doesn’t it?
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> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared
> Wright
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:20 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility.
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> You are correct, it's only Gnome for Orca users for now. As for what
> Unity is, it's just a different spin on shell management. Has more
> features for netbooks and touch interfaces, given their growing
> prominence.
> On 8/18/2011 8:51 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
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> Now I’m trying to take steps to get myself acquainted with Linux, and
> I’m just curious, what is the unity desktop? I’ve never heard of it,
> but I never bothered to look it up since I’ve heard on various threads
> here probably, that Gnome is the only accessible desktop for linux out
> there. Can somebody correct me on that if it’s not true?
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> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:47 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility.
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> When I installed 11.04 I installed it using the accessibility if you
> do that it defaults to the classic ubuntu so it works perfect. I
> found that Ubuntu is only getting better I hope 11.10 stays that way.
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> ken
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> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7:24 AM
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility.
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> Hi All.
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> At work we use a couple of Ubuntu machines which I use with ORCA.
> We're currently on the 8.04 baseline but they are being upgraded to
> 11.04.
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> As I understand it this release includes the new unity desktop by
> default but you can use the older style Gnome desktop. Does anyone
> know if this is write and how you go about it?
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> Thanks.
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> Nick.
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