From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I42tE-0003m1-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:55:04 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (jdashiel@server2.shellworld.net [209.61.182.169]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.13.1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l5SMt3Bt080273 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:55:03 GMT (envelope-from jdashiel@shellworld.net) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:55:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jude DaShiell To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: dropline-gnome accessibility Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:55:04 -0000 I'll try to help out as much as possible and wish I could be more helpful by now than I can. droplinegnome is the only slackware 3rd party gnome that's mostly keeping current with the real gnome versions. droplinegnome can be installed by downloading the droplinegnome-installer from http://www.droplinegnome.org and running it as root. droplinegnome does have orca as part of its distribution and just using the installer will get you only the latest versions of all packages. Unfortunately, droplinegnome does not include the speech-tools or festival packages or the necessary add-ons from festvox.org. I've been trying to build both on a kernel 2.4x system here without much luck. I'll try again in my home directory since it has more space and maybe they'll build then. gnome-speech is also included in droplinegnome but since festival wasn't available on my machine when I installed droplinegnome it built in such a way that it excluded all speech servers like festival. So first get speech-tools and festival built and working then install droplinegnome and if all works orca will talk on your end.