question about accessibility

[Nick Schermer]

echo "export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge" >> ~/.bash_profile

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Nadeau <j.nadeau at charter.net> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a stupid question but how do you Export a environment
> variable GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
>
> On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 09:36 +0100, Nick Schermer wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Jonathan Nadeau <j.nadeau at charter.net> wrote:
>> > Hello list,
>> >
>> > I'm a blind linux user that uses the orca screen reader. I was wondering
>> > would it be possible to get orca in order to work on xfce? I know with
>> > some modifacation some people have been able to get orca working on
>> > xfce. Has anyone looked into this? It would be great if something could
>> > be done about this because xfce would be great for a blind person to use
>> > due to the light weight features of xfce. It is great that gnome is
>> > accessible but as a blind person I don't even need 75% of what gnome
>> > offers. I think xfce would be a great addition to the blind community if
>> > it were accessible. Please let me know if this would be a possibility
>> > and I'm willing to do any testing that would be nessasary for this to be
>> > done. Thanks for your time and help.
>>
>> To enable this in the toolkit you can do 2 things:
>> 1) Create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home-directory and add the line:
>> gtk-modules="gail:atk-bridge"
>> 2) Export a environment variable GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge (or put
>> it in bash config)
>>
>> If you did this, restart the X server and gtk should send all its
>> information through Orca.
>>
>> Nick
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