Matthias Clasen writes:
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 08:13 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello guys and gals,
>
> Anyone who is blind on this list and for developers there is an upgrade
> to Orca that should be put in to the final release of F8 please.
>
I have built orca 2.20.0.1 recently. If you are talking about orca 2.21,
that will likely have to be an update after the release at this point.
Unless it is dramatically better, and 2.20.0.1 is totally broken.
Is it ?
No, in fact I believe it's a new development direction, i.e. py-atspi.
However, on a related note, we should default gnome-speech to espeak
rather than festival. This is especially cool for orca users inasmuch as
espeak is now built against alsa via portaudio 19--which is there in
F-8. As previously discussed among some of us, this should be done via
breakout packages for particular speech engines, e.g.
gnome-speech-espeak. I believe this is what I see in the development
repository, but I'm unclear whether festival is similarly broken out,
and deprecated from its default in gnome-speech status.
While there are still a few problems with accessible login in gdm, it
mostly works with espeak, and that's a very cool feature.
Overall, things look pretty state of the art re a11y to me right now.
Some last minute bugs with F-7.92 fully updated ...
We seem to have lost the beep in gdm as well as gdm's ability to play a
custom audio file. From my personal /etc/gdm/custom.conf:
# If SoundOnLogin is true, then the greeter will beep when login is ready
# for user input. If SoundOnLogin is a file and the greeter finds the
# 'play' executable (see daemon/SoundProgram) it will play that file
# instead of just beeping
#SoundOnLogin=true
SoundOnLogin=/boot/gdm.wav
This is now broken--as of some weeks ago. Not sure if it's gdm or F-8
implementation breakage.
However, far more serious is that the beep no longer works when
"SoundOnLogin=true' is set.
Janina
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