question about accessibility

[Jim Campbell]

Hi Nick,

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
> >>
>

Will either approach (the .gtkrc-2.0 file setup or the exporting of the
environmental variable) work, or would you have to do both of them?

Jim
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