Re: kde install accessibility experience
What follows is likely no more than tangentially related to the subject line or
the OP, but might be of use to anyone seriously challenged visually.
I spent about 6 hours today at the home of a previously sighted long-time Linux
user whose macular degeneration is nearly complete. We have multiboot on his
machine, primarily openSUSE, which he started using long before I started using
Linux at all, at least 15 years ago. Right now he has openSUSE 13.1, 13.2 and
42.1, plus Stretch, all bootable from one Grub menu that I configure manually.
In 13.1 he has KDE3. In 13.2 he has KDE3 and KDE4. In 42.1 and Stretch he has
TDE, a very mature fork of KDE3. We've never been able to get everything he
needs to work from any single DE, which is why we have the four installations.
Up until today, he hasn't put Stretch to use. 13.1 has gone out of support, and
13.2 is on the out of support doorstep, so 42.1 and/or Stretch need to be doing
at least as well as the older openSUSE versions did.
Today we got over one big hump. KDE3 and TDE have KTTS (which provides speech in
conjunction with Festival voices), but it stopped working with the upgrade from
13.1 to 13.2, and still would not work in 42.1, because Festival got upgraded
from 2.1.something to 2.4.something[1]. Before today we had KTTS working in
Stretch, but he wasn't using it because of other things I never got finished
getting to work in Stretch. Today I got all but one of those other things to
work in Stretch, so that's what was running when I wore out and came home. The
hump was proper migration of KMail, which resulted from using TDE's migration
utility that I hadn't previously known existed, migratekde3.
So, what still does not work is Audible.com. It works fine in Firefox ESR 38 in
13.1 and 13.2, will not play what matters in 42.1 or Stretch. Its sample media,
which are tiny sound files embedded in the logged in home page, play just fine
in both Firefox ESR 45 and Chromium in 42.1 and Stretch, but the books he has
subscribed and paid for, which live in "the cloud", error in trying to play
("problem connecting to server. Please click to try again."). Audible tech
support does not support Linux, even though it previously worked, and works in
older versions, in Linux. NAICT, the problem is CORS related, but I had to quit
before making any significant progress trying to figure out if a solution exists.
[1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=981271
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