Excellent stuff Henrik, good to see you on here. When you mean running Orca from a terminal as root, how would you do that from the live cd? Can you run Orca from a separate console? I'm a bit confused, though I know I aught not to be. Marcel At 04:58 Ay M 4/10/2006, you wrote: >Hello SpeakUp List! > >I've just been make aware of this list, so I'm writing to introduce >myself. I'm Henrik Nilsen Omma, Accessibility Coordinator at Ubuntu. > >I see from the archives that there have been some questions about Ubuntu >Edgy, Orca etc. and some misconceptions that I'll try to clear up. > >The aim of the Live CD is to provide an environment for exploring the >system and later installing it. This should work independently for both >visually and mobility impaired users. We are just a few bugs away from >making it work smoothly ;) -- but we still have a couple of weeks. > >The default Ubuntu installer is written in GTK (as it runs on a Gnome >system). The reason it does not speak to Orca at the moment is that it >is running as root, while Orca runs as a user. We are preparing a fix >for this, but for now you can work around it by running Orca from a root >terminal and then running 'ubiquity' from there as well (the installer). > The Kubuntu version of the installer is written in QT, but most VI >users would not want to install KDE at this point. Things are looking >better for KDE4 though. > >We have also included speakup with our default Edgy kernel, but have not >prepared the required command line scripts for it yet. Any help with >testing speakup in Edgy and preparing such scripts would be great! > >About myself: I'm not visually impaired but I do have a mobility >impairment. Of the Linux access tools, I only use sticky keys myself >though I do have a working familiarity with the others. My main role is >to encourage, facilitate and coordinate accessibility development in >Ubuntu. I work with end-users in the forums and mailing lists and with >the core developers to implement features. > >Henrik > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
