A few hints requested?

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi Dave
Being an old Linux hand, I'm using the command-line to maintain my 
packages at present. My Dash did speak for a while (though I didn't 
figure out what the lenses did) but has recently stopped speaking. I 
thought it was because of my session being set to unity 3d, but I 
managed to force it back to 2d and it still doesn't speak. I suspect one 
of the updates in proposed broke it, but I didn't keep track (stupid of 
me) and I've no idea which one it might have been. Adding the extra 
unity a11y PPA did nothing, it seems that thos packages are either in 
proposed or have lower version numbers than those in proposed, so adding 
it did absolutely zilch. I applaud the efforts of the a11y team, but 
these random breakages and *still* inaccessible system apps, I must 
admit, are discouraging. I don't have time to patch code at present, so 
I'll still stick with it and test, and help in any way I can, because I 
suspect we're going to need a stable a11y in Ubuntu in the not too 
distant future when Windows 8 hits us full in the face.

On 10/22/2011 07:16, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Do you have Synaptic running?  Do you use the command line to maintain 
> your packages?  I cannot even tell what apps are installed; the lens 
> that is supposed to be opened with 'super+a' does not read.  Do the 
> lenses read properly when the proposed and/or Unity Extra a11y ppas 
> are added to Sources?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 10/21/2011 11:10 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>> Hi Dave
>> So far as I can tell, the apps list in software center doesn't read 
>> although the rest of the program does. You're getting further with 
>> Skype than I--I'm able to enter my login credentials in the GUI just 
>> fine but, regular as clockwork, the instant Skype tries to sign in it 
>> crashes. Running it from the terminal to see exactly what's happening 
>> gives me the extremely unhelpful message "Aborted" and nothing else. 
>> And I thought Windows' error messages were vague.
>>
>> On 10/21/2011 15:08, Dave Hunt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running an out-of-the-box installation of 11.10 on my Asus 
>>> 1015PE netbook.  I'm trying to use the Software Center tool with 
>>> Orca.  When I search for applications in a category, how can I get 
>>> Orca to read the names of the apps resulting from my search?  I'd 
>>> use Synaptic, but it throws a bunch of errors about missing themes 
>>> in pixmaps.
>>>
>>> Also, I notice that the Skype gui is somewhat accessible, but cannot 
>>> seem to set options or enter login credentials.  Any ideas?  If I 
>>> run Skype from a terminal and use the 'pipelogin' option to pass my 
>>> credentials, Skype throws errors about pixmaps stuff missing.  When 
>>> I used apt-get to install Skype and Synaptic, there were no errors 
>>> regarding missing or broken dependencies.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave  Hunt
>>>
>>>
>>> I tweet as wx1gdave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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