I am so royaly @&%$ OFF at Debian that it's not even funny...

[Steve Litt]

Eric, humor me. Just for fun, make yourself a Void Linux Qemu guest. I
usually use 4GB of RAM and 8GB of disk, and that's almost always more
than enough, especially the RAM.

Then install Orca, verify that it's 3.24.0, and see if it better
fulfills your needs. I'm not positive how to get sound running in a
qemu guest.

If it works for you you can either switch to Void Linux, or get Orca
from the guys who make it, and hand-compile it on your current distro.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:28:59 -0700
Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:

> It is. It is also an active interface that allows for text to speech.
> last time I tried in 16.04 it would come up, but no sound. that made
> it pretty unusable by me. The ORCA window on the desktop looks a lot
> like a preferences pane. lots of listed keyboard shortcuts, settings
> and the like.
> 
> -Eric
> from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Accessibility
> Acquisitions Dept.
> 
> On Sep 21, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:22:55 -0700
> > Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> thats probably why the Vinux Project went over to RedHat a few
> >> months back. It does irritate me that ORCA is so far behind the
> >> current development cycle that it won't work in Ubuntu 16.04.   
> > 
> > I just installed Orca 3.24.0 on Void Linux. I couldn't test it
> > because I don't know how it works: It appears to be some sort of
> > daemon.
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > Steve Litt
> > September 2017 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical
> > Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr
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