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From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
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Subject: Re: instructions for doing an eyes-free install of chromevox on Linux
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Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com> wrote:
> I think there might be a way to customize Orca so that Orca is disabled
> when self-voicing apps like chromevox have focus.  If there is, don't
> use it right now.  Chromevox does not (yet) speak some browser dialogs.
> These can be read with Orca, however.  Just enable it temporarily to
> read them.  Yes, it's annoying!

As I understand it, all browser dialogues and menus are spoken with ChromeVox
under Chrome OS, but the code that does this isn't enabled in the standard
Linux builds of Chromium. I don't know what would be required to fix this.