in our case, chromevox uses speech-dispatcher/espeak so no need for that here. it depends on the tts you're having it use. Janina Sajka wrote | 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/ | | _______________________________________________ | Speakup mailing list | Speakup at linux-speakup.org | http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup | ---end quoted text---
