gnopernicus

Thomas D. Ward tward1978 at earthlink.net
Fri May 30 03:32:46 EDT 2003


Hi, I don't think the problem is so much gnopernicus but many of the
applications for gnome and X-windows haven't been updated to support the
accessibility framework.
So there is quite a large number of applications you will see on your system
that simply won't work, or only half work.
Mozilla is a work in progress, and I've not got it working at all on my 9.0
system so behavior seams to change from Linux system to Linux system.
As for gnome-terminal gnopernicus sort of works with it, and I have managed
to use lynx, and links, in it with pretty good feedback. When, I tried nano,
all it wanted to say was terminal over and over, and I would love to kill
that message.
However, if I don't want to leave x I tend to open gnome-terminal and load
yasr which reads gnome-terminal quite well.



----- Original Message -----
From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters at linuxpowered.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: Gnome Accessibility List <gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: gnopernicus


> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> what I'm mainly seeing is this. it doesn't announce the name of the
> program that's starting, and take mozilla again for example, when I take
> it to a webpage such as www.debian.org, or www.dmwaters.us, it does not
> read the page, it acts like the page is blank.
>
> it does the same with the gnome terminal, I haven't tried it in editors,
> and I'm unsure of wether I should try conciddering what I'm seeing so
> far.  I understand that it's still experimental, but from what I've
> heard so far it's supposed to be decently useable.
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2003,
> Thomas D. Ward wrote:
>
> > Hi, which arrow keys are you trying to use? Remember the numpad is
really
> > only for the mouse, not for working in say the gedit text editor.
> > If you want to move by words use the arrow keys on the upside down t
such as
> > control+right arrow and control+left arrow. Reading by line use the up
and
> > down arrow keys.
> > As for telling Mozilla what site you want I believe the command is
ctrl+l
> > type the address, and enter.
> > Hth.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters at linuxpowered.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:58 PM
> > Subject: gnopernicus
> >
> >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > I've spent most of the afternoon playing with gnopernicus, and so far
i
> > > find it very inaccessible.
> > >
> > > You can't read things line by line or word by word, and  I get the
> > > impression that stuff is just scattered across the screen, and you
can't
> > > land on anything you want to.
> > >
> > > I saw someone say that it works with different gtk programs to an
extent,
> > > but so far I'm seeing the exact opposit, take mozilla for example, it
> > > doesn't read pages as they come up and you can't even really choose to
put
> > > in an address and let it take you there, or so it seems.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any ideas on how to make this more useable I'd
appreciate
> > > it. I do have the gnome accessibility stuff turned on, but that
doesn't
> > > seem to help much accept to make it talk.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
> > > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76
> > >
> > > iD8DBQE+1tbdU5AGPOTGNc8RAszDAJ9/BTKvpBBfmI+8szuztymLKxO/VwCdFkCC
> > > uc84+E4bA1X20s+GCCFZpWc=
> > > =aC2o
> > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76
>
> iD8DBQE+1uhNU5AGPOTGNc8RApDoAKC7FdD3V6F7iL3aQyqEsloiYrWztQCeOeaA
> fe4CLNPzyfBlzvCKBVNcEXY=
> =jHQ5
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup





More information about the Speakup mailing list