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

[Eric Oyen]

um yeah. trying to get sound running under an OS without any kind of speech output or braille support can be a real trick. Not sure how I can do that without a sighted assistant (and no one in my pad qualifies as anything other than an appliance operator).

-eric
from the office central office of the Technomage Guild, Accessibility Assessments.
On Sep 22, 2017, at 6:59 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> 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
> 
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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
>>> 
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