If you depend on speech-dispatcher for screen reader access, e.g. with Orca, stay away from Fedora 15 and the upcoming Fedora 16 until there's a fix for bug 743762: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743762 Unfortunately, there has been no activity on this bug since it was reported several weeks ago. Please note, furthermore, that there is no longer any other speech option for Orca The old gnome-speech option will not function over D-Bus, and should, frankly, have been removed. Symptoms Speech Dispatcher will only speak for the root user. It will not speak for an ordinary user. This does not appear to be a problem with the graphical environment, however, as it can be demonstrated from the console using spd-say. Issuing the following command as root works as expected. Issuing this command as an ordinary user hangs until a Ctrl-C. Furthermore, the audio device remains "busy" until the offending orphaned pid is manually killed. Stopping Speech-Dispat cher will not kill this pid. Lastly, the problem does not appear to be with Speech-Dispatcher itself, inasmuch as the build provided on F-15 dates to March last, and worked satisfactorally until approximately one month ago. Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxx Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
