Re: Latest Ubuntu and accessibility.
- From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:50:33 -0400
Hi,
for most things Orca works great with gnome-terminal. Notable exception
to this is irssi. Switching to the console isn't hard, ctrl+alt+f1 and
back to gnome with ctrl+alt+f7. but for writing bash scripts and things
I just use gnome-terminal to test and gedit to write.
HTH
Storm
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On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 19:27 -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Orca -sort of- works in the terminal. What most people do, or at least
> what I did was just use speakup for the consoles and orca for gnome.
> On 8/18/2011 7:25 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ken
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Nick.
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