Using a web browser in gnome

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

The best way I have found to stop Orca speaking in Firefox is to copy
the self voicing script to my .orca/orca-scripts dir and rename it to
Firefox.py.  Note: the f in Firefox.py is upper case.

One problem with this is that Firevox doesn't read all dialogs in
Firefox, so you loose access to these dialogs when you silence Orca.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:25:17PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> One of the things I had been disappointed with trying to use orca in
> gnome is the poor internet support. All my attempts to use firefox or
> epiphany did not give any good results that would be possible to
> classify as useful. I have tried LSR but I was having difficulty knowing
> how to use it properly and I think the ubuntu package for it is a bit
> out of date. Searching the internet seemed to indicate that web browsers
> are difficult at the moment as they aren't providing the information
> needed by the screen readers to make them effective.
> 
> Wel  that was until I came across firevox (www.firevox.clcworld.net)
> which is a speaking extension for firefox. Admittedly it isn't perfect,
> but it seems to be alot better than not having it. It supposedly can
> handle dynamic pages with javascript, mathml, css speech presentation
> (so the way the page should be spoken can be specified in css like
> normally css is used for visual layout) and some other features. It can
> use freetts or orca for output (in linux), but I have found that orca
> still tries to do some reading of its own and so you get some other
> words from orca after firevox has spoken. May be if someone knows how to
> solve this they could help me with it, I would just imagine it requires
> a script to silence orca from doing its own reading, but as I am new to
> orca it isn't yet clear to me.
> 
> Hope this is of interest.
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> 
> 
> 
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