Now that I've worked with this for awhile, I'm reminded there was one additional step when a Google person set this up for me some years ago. Because Chrome is self-voicing with Chrome Vox, Orca (and Speech-Dispatcher/Espeak) should be disabled while Chrome has focus. I regret I don't know how to set that up. May have to take this to the Orca list, unless someone here knows? Janina Janina Sajka writes: > Wow, works on Fedora 19. Thanks, Chris. > > I also had to create the extensions directory. For good measure I > chown'd the file root:root as well. > > I used yum to install chrome 28 (stable) itself. I was able to do this > because I had the Google .repo file on archive from an installation > someone at Google helped me do some years ago. I imagine a little Google > search would turn up the downloadable location of that repo file. But, > with that file inhand, installation was a breeze. > > Thanks for the json file. It worked like a charm! > > Janina > > Chris Brannon writes: > > It's not directly relevant to Speakup, but I suspect that a lot of the > > people on this list will be interested. > > Reposted from the chromevox discussion group: > > > > It seems that there is now a very easy way to install ChromeVox under > > Linux without sighted help. > > Basically, download the following file: > > http://the-brannons.com/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn.json > > And put it in a particular directory. > > I'm running chromium, and for me, that directory is > > /usr/lib/chromium-browser/extensions. If I were running chrome instead, > > it would be /opt/google/chrome/extensions. > > I'm running chromium on Gentoo, and I have no idea whether these paths > > are distro specific. You may also need to create the extensions/ > > directory. I had to do that. > > Once the file is copied, just start chromium or chrome, and > > chromevox *should* start talking! > > I don't know if this can be used for older versions of chrome / > > chromium. For what it's worth, chromium 29.0.1547.32 is installed here. > > In any case, I'm finally able to do an eyes-free install of chromevox > > under Linux! > > > > Thanks to "floppym" for showing me how to do this. > > > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net > Email: janina at rednote.net > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
