Earlier I wrote the kde-accessibility list and asked how to get kde accessibility working with kde installed on a system specifically screen reading accessibility. I was advised I would need to install the whole orca dependency stack and get orca up and running and from orca then get kdespeech started. I was also told kdespeech would read qt stuff orca cannot read but wouldn't do much more beyond that.
I tried it and had an interesting install failure experience.
First going into console and installing orca dependency stack on the kde installation that had already got done was no problem.
The problem started on rebootand I got the graphical environment running and I know that because espeakup stopped working like it does in the console. So next I start orca up and that worked too and I was thinking I'm just about home free here. Wrong! What came up talking on the screen was I suppose you could call it a dialog to set the system date. I tried several times to set the system date in that calendar dialog and though I was able to set the date, I found no control or way to close the calendar dialog and go beyond the calendar dialog to get any of kde's accessibility up and working. Since then I have read about some variables that may be helpful exporting before I start up the graphical environment on next installation try.
Understand, I do my own stuff with computers and do not have sighted assistance to help out when I do it let alone someone experienced with kde who can see so that's the explanation for this failed kde accessibility install experience.
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