kde and speech

[Jude DaShiell]

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 <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Cc: Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com>, kde-accessibility at kde.org
> 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 <jdashiel at panix.com> 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 <gustav97 at gmail.com>
>>> To: kde-accessibility at kde.org
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>>
>>
>

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