Re: Text reader

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 2 Sep 2008, at 18:51, Jonh Wendell wrote:

> Hi, folks.
>
> Is there any text reader integrated with GNOME?

Yes: Orca, which has been part of GNOME since 2.16, when it replaced  
gnopernicus.

<http://live.gnome.org/Orca>

> I'm asking this because frequently people come and ask for such a  
> tool.
> If is exists, it should be installed by default on distros.


I'm sure most people here would agree, and AFAIK orca is installed on  
many distros by default-- Ubuntu Hardy and OpenSolaris, for example.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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