Re: kde and speech
Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:20:56 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.accessibility |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Yes, that helps very much! With that information I can try a few things on this end. On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:58:42 > From: Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]> > To: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> > Cc: Gustav Degreef <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: kde and speech > > Jovie is not a screen reader. It is only useful to speak notifications from > clock, etc. It has been completely replaced by QtSpeech in Qt5 based KDE > applications and Plasma. Jovie will not be ported to Qt5 since QtSpeech > does everything (mostly) that Jovie did. Orca is the recommended screen > reader on plasma systems. > > Hope that helps, > Jeremy Whiting > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's what I'm talking about. I am doing testing for an accessible linux >> distribution called slint. They have kde documented as inaccessible partly >> because no kde accessible iso exists similar to the vinux project but using >> kde. The project developers don't know how to get jovie up and running >> once kde is on a system. >> >> If you would be willing to look at one of the project files on >> accessibility and willing to offer suggestions for corrections concerning >> kde and jovie, probably kde-accessibility would get some more members and >> users of jovie. The url if you're interested is: >> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-testing/iso/ACCESSIBILITY >> >> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Gustav Degreef wrote: >> >> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:27:34 >>> From: Gustav Degreef <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: kde and speech >>> >>> On 10/11/2017 05:15 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >>> >>>> Have we got any kde screen reader users on this list using speech >>>> rather than magnification for their accessibility? >>>> -- >>>> If you are talking about Jovie, yes I use it extensively.? And at >>>> least for the past 3-4 years.? Gustav. >>>> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> > --