Hello all,
Some of you may have heard of me, others ..... maybe not.
I've recorded a number of audio walk throughs in the past aiming to guide new users through the installation, configuration and use of differing Linux distributions. The walk throughs are mainly aimed at new users however in the case of this one, I am hoping that as many people will listen as possible to highlight the exceptional work the OpenSuSE developers have done with this release to make it the most accessible release ever!
The walk through demonstrates the new text to speech functionality found in the boot menu. Simply boot the Gnome Live CD or the DVD, wait for the beep to signify that the boot menu is displayed, press f9 and you will instantly hear speech feedback when you arrow through the options. OpenSuSE 11, boot from hard disk failsafe, memory test are normally options we would have to memorise. In this version we have full access! Press f2 to choose your language and again, it's spoken!
I could rant and rave about how impressed I am but really, I would suggest you take a listen to the walk through and download 11 for your self. Of course, there are quite a few Yast GTK bugs to iron out and I've not had the time to submit them to bugzilla but I'm very confedent that once their submitted they'll be acted upon very promptly.
Get the walk through at www.digitaldarragh.com/linux/opensuse-installation-with-orca-walkthrough.mp3
You can see more audio walk through's at www.digitaldarragh.com/linuxat.asp
I've written a post guiding users through the installation of the ESpeak synthesizer in OpenSuSE for use with Orca at http://www.digitaldarragh.com/2008/07/23/InstallingEspeakInOpenSuSE11ForUse…
I've also written a walk through for installing Speakup, the console screen reader at http://www.digitaldarragh.com/linux/showpage.asp?section=linux&category=acc…
Other audio recordings can be found on the Orca wiki at http://live.gnome.org/Orca
Please do not hesitate to contact me either via this list or privately if you have any questions, comments, suggestions or problems.
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Experienced Web development, Linux / Windows Workstation and server support, Assistive technology support and consultancy.
Website: http://www.digitaldarragh.com
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Greetings all,
OpenSuSE 11 has seen the introduction of some great leaps in terms of accessibility in this distribution.
When you boot the DVD, you'll hear a short high pitch beep. If you press F9, you'll hear a synthesizer that sounds like a poor quality ESpeak speak the grub menu items such as boot from hard disk, installation, falesafe etc. When you press f2, f3 f4 etc you will again hear the synthesizer speak the items you arrow over. This is a fantastic step and one that I am delighted to see OpenSuSE introduce.
However, when I press enter on install, the installation loads in text mode however I don't get any further speech feedback.
This is very unfortunate.
I've been able to install OpenSuSE 11 using the Gnome live CD. That worked well however the GTK+ version of Yast still has a lot of accessibility related bugs. I unfortunately don't have time to report them all at the moment but I@d love to get around to it soon.
Brien, Hans and JP Rosvier set out to make this the most accessible version of OpenSuSE 11. I think they've done a fantastic job.
I've posted a few howtos on my website over at www.digitaldarragh.com to guide users through installing ESpeak from source along with Gnome-Speech and Orca from SVN in OpenSuSE so Gnome-Speech can use ESpeak.
Any thought's on making the text installlation speak would be very appreciated.
Thanks
Darragh
www.digitaldarragh.com
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