UNS: instructions for doing an eyes-free install of chromevox on Linux

[Deedra Waters]

in our case, chromevox uses speech-dispatcher/espeak so no need for that
here. it depends on the tts you're having it use.


Janina Sajka wrote
| Now that I've worked with this for awhile, I'm reminded there was one
| additional step when a Google person set this up for me some years ago.
| 
| Because Chrome is self-voicing with Chrome Vox, Orca (and
| Speech-Dispatcher/Espeak) should be disabled while Chrome has focus.
| 
| I regret I don't know how to set that up. May have to take this to the
| Orca list, unless someone here knows?
| 
| Janina
| 
| Janina Sajka writes:
| > Wow, works on Fedora 19. Thanks, Chris.
| > 
| > I also had to create the extensions directory. For good measure I
| > chown'd the file root:root as well.
| > 
| > I used yum to install chrome 28 (stable) itself. I was able to do this
| > because I had the Google .repo file on archive from an installation
| > someone at Google helped me do some years ago. I imagine a little Google
| > search would turn up the downloadable location of that repo file. But,
| > with that file inhand, installation was a breeze.
| > 
| > Thanks for the json file. It worked like a charm!
| > 
| > Janina
| > 
| > Chris Brannon writes:
| > > It's not directly relevant to Speakup, but I suspect that a lot of the
| > > people on this list will be interested.
| > > Reposted from the chromevox discussion group:
| > > 
| > > It seems that there is now a very easy way to install ChromeVox under
| > > Linux without sighted help.
| > > Basically, download the following file:
| > > http://the-brannons.com/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn.json
| > > And put it in a particular directory.
| > > I'm running chromium, and for me, that directory is
| > > /usr/lib/chromium-browser/extensions.  If I were running chrome instead,
| > > it would be /opt/google/chrome/extensions.
| > > I'm running chromium on Gentoo, and I have no idea whether these paths
| > > are distro specific.  You may also need to create the extensions/
| > > directory.  I had to do that.
| > > Once the file is copied, just start chromium or chrome, and
| > > chromevox *should* start talking!
| > > I don't know if this can be used for older versions of chrome /
| > > chromium.  For what it's worth, chromium 29.0.1547.32 is installed here.
| > > In any case, I'm finally able to do an eyes-free install of chromevox
| > > under Linux!
| > > 
| > > Thanks to "floppym" for showing me how to do this.
| > > 
| > > -- Chris
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| > 
| > -- 
| > 
| > Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
| > 			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
| > 		Email:	janina at rednote.net
| > 
| > Linux Foundation Fellow
| > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
| > 
| > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
| > Chair,	Protocols & Formats	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
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| > 
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| -- 
| 
| Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
| 			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
| 		Email:	janina at rednote.net
| 
| Linux Foundation Fellow
| Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
| 
| The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
| Chair,	Protocols & Formats	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
| 	Indie UI			http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
| 
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