Accessible Coconut speech at startup

Sat Oct 30 03:47:09 UTC 2021

Wow, you are a great help. I can't thank you enough. This seems to be a 
very accessible distro. I will certainly consider putting next to my 
wiindows.

Thanks a lot my friend.

Ibrahim

On 10/30/21 8:43 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Screen reader settings
> Insert plus space
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 11:04 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a million. I just figured what I was doing worng. I just realized that hitting alt-f1 or alt-f2 does not work on my laptop. I needed to push the function key along with the alt f1 or f2 for it to work. Now I can access the menus just fine.
>>
>> I still need to figure out a way of changing the default speech engine, and a way to have it display foreign characters on the Braille display. For example, When I do a youtube search and get a hit in Arabic or Hebrew it displays the Arabic or Hebrew characters as question marks. I am sure there is a way of dealing with this.
>>
>> in the next stage, I need to figure a safe way of installing it alongside my windows without screwing u    p my windows opperation.
>>
>> Thanks a lot again for your help.
>>
>> By the way I am now writing this email using the thunderbird that comes with the accessible Coconut
>>
>>> On 10/30/21 6:04 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> super-t may get you a terminal which gives you a command line.  You'll
>>> know if a $ comes up as a  prompt or a # comes up.  Failing that alt-+f2
>>> then type mate-terminal or gnome-terminal and hit enter.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a million for your help. I tried your  suggestions to no avail. However, something strange happened, when I connected my braille display it connected to accessible coconut right away. I was able to browse the menus and connect to the internet. During my browsing the speech came on.
>>>> I have two questions, how can I get a command line prompt? My second question is, what is the command to turn off the computer? Alt f4 did not take me there.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ibrahim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Press alt plus F1.
>>>>> Do you hear speech?
>>>>> If not, press escape.
>>>>> Press alt plus F2
>>>>> Type
>>>>> orca
>>>>> Press enter.
>>>>> This should fix it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a step by step tutorial on how to start?
>>>>>> I downloaded the accessible coconut iso and put it on a bootable usb drive. I was able to boot the machine from the usb, but there was no speech to guide me. I was able to confirm that I indeed booted from usb with accessible coconut by using my iPhone camera. I have no idea how to get the speech going. So please if you have a tutorial, send it my way.
>>>>>> Ibrahim
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 10:29 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> When using the live CD, The screenreader started at boot.
>>>>>>> But a  after I installed it, I get no screenreader at startup.
>>>>>>> All settings as far as I know are correct.
>>>>>>> The only way to get speech is to go to the run window with
>>>>>>> Alt+F2
>>>>>>> Then type
>>>>>>> orca
>>>>>>> And press enter.
>>>>>>> I reinstalled linux and got the same result.
>>>>>>> As I was doing the install, I checked the box to get updates during the install. Could this be the cause of my trouble?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Rob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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