Greetings from Ubuntu

[Marcel Oats]

Excellent stuff Henrik, good to see you on here.  When you mean 
running Orca from a terminal as root, how would you do that from the 
live cd?  Can you run Orca from a separate console?  I'm a bit 
confused, though I know I aught not to be.
Marcel

At 04:58 Ay M 4/10/2006, you wrote:
>Hello SpeakUp List!
>
>I've just been make aware of this list, so I'm writing to introduce
>myself. I'm Henrik Nilsen Omma, Accessibility Coordinator at Ubuntu.
>
>I see from the archives that there have been some questions about Ubuntu
>Edgy, Orca etc. and some misconceptions that I'll try to clear up.
>
>The aim of the Live CD is to provide an environment for exploring the
>system and later installing it. This should work independently for both
>visually and mobility impaired users. We are just a few bugs away from
>making it work smoothly ;) -- but we still have a couple of weeks.
>
>The default Ubuntu installer is written in GTK (as it runs on a Gnome
>system). The reason it does not speak to Orca at the moment is that it
>is running as root, while Orca runs as a user. We are preparing a fix
>for this, but for now you can work around it by running Orca from a root
>terminal and then running 'ubiquity' from there as well (the installer).
>  The Kubuntu version of the installer is written in QT, but most VI
>users would not want to install KDE at this point. Things are looking
>better for KDE4 though.
>
>We have also included speakup with our default Edgy kernel, but have not
>prepared the required command line scripts for it yet. Any help with
>testing speakup in Edgy and preparing such scripts would be great!
>
>About myself: I'm not visually impaired but I do have a mobility
>impairment. Of the Linux access tools, I only use sticky keys myself
>though I do have a working familiarity with the others. My main role is
>to encourage, facilitate and coordinate accessibility development in
>Ubuntu. I work with end-users in the forums and mailing lists and with
>the core developers to implement features.
>
>Henrik
>
>
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