orca out of the box

[Arky]

Hi all, 

That's wonderful! We need all the help we can get. Right now Luke is doing most of the work. :( 

At this moment I am trying out various mainline kernels to get a glitch-free audio.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/479375

Somehow I haven't given up on Pulseaudio yet, we can try to get the performance on par with alsa/oss driver.



Cheers

--arky

 Rakesh 'arky' Ambati| IT Consultant| http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | Blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com



----- Original Message ----
> From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com>
> To: Isaac Porat <isaac at porat.me.uk>
> Cc: Arky <rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com>; Josh <jkenn337 at gmail.com>; ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Fri, 11 December, 2009 7:37:04 PM
> Subject: Re: orca out of the box
> 
> Hi, Arki, and thanks for working on the bugs.  I think there are a few
> of us who would like to help get Orca working well in Lucid.  I've
> installed alpha1, and have run into the pyatspi bug you know about.
> Any help getting Orca working well is appreciated.  I'm comfortable
> debugging C code, but I don't understand the whole D-bus/atspi/COBRA
> stuff at all, or even if that's where the bug lies.
> 
> Another issue with continues to be pulseaudio.  Disabling it with the
> .pulse_a11y_nostart hack leads to far superior audio performance.  Do
> you think we have time to fix the pulseaudio problems for Lucid, or
> should we focus on making the accessibility install with pulseaudio
> disabled less buggy and more usable?  I'd like to help track down bugs
> in Lucid related to accessibility from now until the April release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Isaac Porat wrote:
> > Hello Arki and all
> >
> >  Your reply implies that all is well, in fact those who tried speech with
> > Karmic knows that it is for all practical purposes unusable.  It is my
> > impression that even geeks can't get it to work reliably PulseAudio is too
> > deeply embedded into the system and it seems that those looking after audio
> > in Canonical never considered the impact of this on the blind community.
> > There is a bold statement about accessibility on Ubuntu's website but it
> > seems to have no roots in reality at least with Karmic.
> >
> > Jaunty had at least a clean way to remove PulseAudio and in fact it is the
> > first distro I can use as a blind person productively - thanks to all
> > concerned.  Karmic is completely the other way - unusable.
> >
> > Yes I am aware of the various tweaks with limited effect and completely
> > unworkable for the typical blind Windows or Mac user looking for an
> > alternative.
> >  http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuKarmic
> > When Karmic was released I thought this problem  was a glitch, an oversight
> > which will be sorted out; there are no visible sighnes of this yet, at least
> > nothing that the blind community is aware of.
> >
> > Regards
> > Isaac
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Arky
> > Sent: 11 December 2009 05:30
> > To: Josh; ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: orca out of the box
> >
> > Hi Josh,
> >
> > Ubuntu LiveCD has an accessibility mode that enables blind users to use Orca
> > screen reader and magnifier.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/#Starting%20Orca%20on%20the%
> > 20Live%20CD
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --arky
> >
> >
> > Rakesh 'arky' Ambati| IT Consultant| http://www.braillewithoutborders.org |
> > Blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> >        From: Josh 
> >        To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> >        Sent: Fri, 11 December, 2009 6:40:12 AM
> >        Subject: orca out of the box
> >
> >
> >        Hi,
> >
> >        I think in the next release when ubuntu live cd/dvd starts up it
> > should detect the sound card then say: if you're blind do this to start the
> > live cd with orca and dothat to start the installer with orca. make it more
> > like the mac with voiceover kind of.
> >
> >        Josh
> >
> >        My email address is: jkenn337 at gmail.com . www.satogo.com Get klango
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> >
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