[orca-list] Problems with orca and updated Ubuntu 16.04

Tom Masterson kd7cyu at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 21:44:57 UTC 2018


Yes accessibility stack is running before firefox is started.  I don't 
normally run thunderbird as I use alpine for email but thunderbird does 
work.  When I bring up firefox there is no speech and no braille.

Tom

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, Peter Vágner wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Have you started orca before starting Firefox or is Firefox not accessible for you eventhough you are sure Orca and the rest of the accessibility stack is running
> prior to starting Firefox?
> Are you also running Thunderbird? Is Thunderbird working fine for you?
> If you restart Firefox is it still lacking accessibility support?
> Greetings
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> Dňa 27. 1. 2018 20:53 používateľ "Tom Masterson" <kd7cyu at gmail.com> napísal:
>       Thanks for the help.  Orca is now working everywhere but firefox.  Not sure what is happening with that.  Turns out something was not working in the sound
>       system and a reboot fixed it.
>
>       Tom
> 
>
>       On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, Peter Vágner wrote:
>
>             Hello,
>
>             Can you access that PC remotely to trouble shoot? Does other audio such as system bell play? Can you blindly try running
>             espeak hello
>             spd-say hello
>             or similar to discover if speech is working fine?
>             If all this appears to be working are you sure orca is running?
>
>             Greetings
>
>             Peter
> 
>
>             2018-01-26 18:29 GMT+01:00 Tom Masterson <kd7cyu at gmail.com>:
>                   I am running Ubuntu 16.04 with all the latest updates.  Under either mate or Ubuntu Default orca comes up and works with my braille
>             display in some
>                   circumstances but there is no speech.  It does not work with even my braille display under firefox.  The only oddity I see in syslog or
>             other places is
>                   the following line.
>
>                   Jan 26 09:23:34 Tom-M2800 console-kit-daemon[5024]: (process:7120): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0'
>             failed
>
>                   Does anyone on these lists have suggestions?
>
>                   Tom
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