Whonix/Tails

[Tony Baechler]

On 7/12/2015 1:30 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Also is there a distro where speakup continues to work when ORCA screen
> reader is run in X Windows GNOME?


What exactly do you mean by this?  If you mean is there a way to have 
Speakup talking at the same time Orca is running in an X session, such as in 
Gnome Terminal, the answer is no.  This is because Speakup automatically 
goes silent when X starts if my understanding is correct.  If you mean is 
there a way to have an X session running with Orca and a console session 
running on a separate TTY with Speakup, the answer is yes.  For example, 
tty7 runs X with Orca.  You press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to tty1 which is a text 
console.  Speakup should be talking on tty1 while Orca should be talking in 
your X session.  Vinux, Debian, probably Arch, etc should support this, also 
automatically.  If that is not happening for you, we would need detailed 
information on what distribution you're running and what speech packages you 
have installed.