Orca urgent response needed! want some tips for a huge seminar.

hello all,
Installer of ubuntu 6.10 with the work around seams to be
fine.
I barely got a chance to start the setup and my engineer
(ubfortunately ) came over and I gave him the laptop.
are there any issues with ubiquity when orca is running with
orca --
no-setup command?
I herd previously that selecting time zone is a problem.
I am most interested in the latest status of open office
accessibility.
I recall that the formatting options like toggling the bold
etc.
buttons is not spoken.  I also remember that the last time I
upgraded
openoffice about 20 days back, there was no change and no
font
information was reported.
what is the current status in this regard?  I am doing a
seminar for
some univercity and want them to adopt orca for the
accessibility
needs for the blind students out there.
secondly do I need to upgrade orca itself?  I have the
ubuntu 6.10
live cd and obviously the orca version on that cd must be
older than
the current?
is it worth apt-get install orca for updating it?
thanks a lot,
Krishnakant.
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Hi Krishnakant:

> are there any issues with ubiquity when orca is running
with orca --
> no-setup command?

The Ubuntu Edgy Eft install with Orca is still a bit on the
bleeding
edge, and requires you to do a little extra work:

  http://live.
gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuEdgyEft

The good news is that we've been working (and listening) and
have
updated things in Orca to hopefully work better in this
environment.  At
the same time, work has been contributed by IBM to help
solve the
problem where assistive technologies cannot access
applications being
run as a different user on the display.  We should hopefully
see the
improvements as GNOME 2.17.x and GNOME 2.18 become more
widely
available.

> I am most interested in the latest status of open
office accessibility.
> I recall that the formatting options like toggling the
bold etc.
> buttons is not spoken.  I also remember that the last
time I upgraded
> openoffice about 20 days back, there was no change and
no font
> information was reported.

Unfortunately, much of this is outside the control of the
Orca team.  We
have logged bugs with the OpenOffice team, however, and they
are working
away at them.  We hope to see great improvement by their
next released.

> secondly do I need to upgrade orca itself?  I have the
ubuntu 6.10
> live cd and obviously the orca version on that cd must
be older than
> the current?

You can always grab the latest Orca sources from
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca.  I'd like to say
that
building/installing it by hand is easy, but that's because I
do it 10's
of times a day.    

To build/install it by hand, you need some extra packages on
Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install gnome-devel build-essential automake1.9
python2.4-dev 

You then need to unpack the Orca tarball you downloaded, cd
into its
directory and then type the following:

./configure --prefix=/usr; make; sudo make install 

Hope this helps!

Will

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