Conflict with Emacspeak?

Léonie Watson lw at nomensa.com
Mon Sep 15 15:03:54 EDT 2003


For my part, exploring the possibilities with a view to writing a paper on
the accessibility of linux to a newbie.

Other than that, I can quite see that either one or the other would be
prefferable.

Cheers,
Tink
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Crone" <dannyboy at pobox.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Conflict with Emacspeak?


> If Emacs can be used with speakup, what would be the advantage of using
> Emaccspeak?
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> > Hi.  If you're trying to get emacspeak to use the same synth as speakup,
> > you will need to boot using a kernel without speakup for emacspeak to
use it.
> > The print screen key doesn't unload speakup, it just stops it from doing
> > anything on the current console.  Since speakup got the synth when the
> > system booted, no other screen reader can use it.  Speakup does have a
> > way to let other programs talk to the synth, but the other programs will
> > have to be written to use it.
> >
> >           Kenny
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:05:18PM +0100, Léonie Watson wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > >     I'm still suffering the conflict between Speakup and Emacspeak on
my
> > > Debian (testing) distro.
> > >
> > >     I've tried using the printscr key to unload Speakup before
entering
> > > Emacspeak, but Speakup doesn't unload.
> > >
> > >     I'm using a Dectalk Express, should this make any difference and
at this
> > > time, really don't know enough to figure out much for myself.
> > >
> > >     Apologies to those on the Emacspeak list, where I am also pursuing
this
> > > enquiry, for the dual post.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tink
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