tips for working with more at-spi compatible screen readers in Ubuntu Jaunty

[Mgr. Janusz Chmiel]

Dear users,

    I would like to familiar You with ammazing possibility. This possibility 
is, that You can use more than one screen reader in Ubuntu Jaunty in The 
cases, when Orca will not read some specific list or other part of user 
interface of a specific application. Eventhough Orca is now onlyone and The 
best awailable Gnome screen reader, and i do not know about better solution, 
i would like to write You some procedures, which You would find useful in 
The case, if You accidentally break Your current Orca installation, or if 
AYou would try to analyze user interface of some application which Orca can 
not access. No everybody of us is advanced Python and C programming language 
developer, so it would be good approach.

Firstly, i would like to inform You, that You can always install The fully 
functioning and stable release of Orca by using gnome-orca package. This 
package can be uninstalled or reinstalled by using

apt-get install gnome-orca

apt-get remove gnome-orca

So if You would for example accidentally download non functioning Orca 
development snapshot, You would install it and You would lose Orca support, 
You can always solve this issue by changing to The directory, where You 
installed Orca snapshot from.

And as  A root user in The gnome-terminal
¨
Type
make uninstall

Thank's to The ammazing feature of Linux architecture, You can even be 
running Your Orca if it will atleast provide You basic feetback and You can 
type those commands with speech support. Then, please terminate Orca by 
using quit function.

Then, You can reinstall Orca from official Ubuntu repository by using

apt-get install gnome-orca

Before You will install Orca from source, please correctly install all 
components before trying to use

./configure
make

make install

commands.
So for building Orca from source, You will need to execute The following 
commands as A root user.

apt-get install libglib2.0-dev python-dev

apt-get install git-core gnome-common automake1.9

Then type
./configure
make
make install

If You will follow my instructions, You will be able to successfully install 
LSR and Sue screen readers too.

And You can use those three screen readers without causing software 
conflicts be each others.

Where You can find LSR and SUE screen readers? Those screen readers can be 
downloaded by using provided direct links and those screen readers are also 
written by using Python programming language and C programming language. 
Please be aware, that LSR or Sue can not replace Orca and there can be some 
stability or other bugs, but You can use those products for The situations, 
while Orca has been accidentally broken, or if YOu would try to use those 
screen readers for accessing some applications, which Orca is not able to 
read. Those applications must be at-spi compatible, in other cases, also 
those screen readers will not provide You access to those applications.

So You can download source code of LSR by using one of The following two 
direct links.

http://download.gnome.org/sources/lsr/0.5/lsr-0.5.3.tar.gz

http://download.gnome.org/sources/lsr/0.5/lsr-0.5.3.tar.bz2
After decompressing those archives, You can install them like installing 
Orca.

Where You can download SUE screen reader?

The best  solution will be to use last development snapshot of this product, 
so use svn to get this program by using The following hyperlink for 
downloading source from SVN repository for SUE.

https://sue.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sue/trunk

Or You can download The branch of this source by using

https://sue.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sue/tags/SUE_0_4_0

SUE is based on LSR but core developers modified The source code and if 
somebody want's to help developers during developing this product, everyone 
is granted to do this.

Ubuntu Jaunty is now really stable and speech friendly distro, so do not 
thesitate to try this distro, core developers are constantly updating this 
distro, even complex parts of it like kernel image, at-spi.

I would strongly warn all users before building at-spi from source, it is 
much more better to wait, if official build will be awailable by automatic 
updates feature.

The kindness regards.

Janusz Chmiel