Re: Gnopernicus (screen reader) and Orca?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

Orca, Gnopernicus, and LSR are all screen readers with their own  
approach. Gnopernicus is the oldest of the bunch, followed by Orca,  
and IBM announced LSR very recently.  As the overall lead of Orca, I  
do not think it is professional of me to provide a comparison of the  
screen readers and I will refrain from doing so.

The Orca model is one where we've involved people with disabilities  
from the beginning, with the first prototype being written by a blind  
engineer.  The UI design of the current version of Orca is being led  
by Mike Pedersen, who is a blind engineer and who also led the script  
writing department at a leading screen reading company for the  
Windows platform.

While Orca was received very well at CSUN last week, we do realize we  
have a long way to go.  I'm looking forward to productive and  
constructive discussions on this list where people can share their  
experiences and provide feedback on how to improve Orca.

Hope this helps,

Will

On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Ermengol Bota wrote:

> I have another question on that... :-)
> Is there any relationship between ORCA and LSR from IBM ?
>
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/lsr? 
> open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-lnxw03awlsr
>
> It's also python scripting, over at-spi...
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> * Ermengol *
>
>
> 2006/3/28, Ermengol Bota <ermengol gmail com>:
> > Hello,
> > I've spent last days trying to know the "work in progress" around
> > "accessibility" on free software.
> > On the screen reader's area I've found this project, as well as
> > gnopernicus (screen reader), both of them on GNOME ...
> > So, I'm little bit confused about what is the main goal of each  
> > one...
> >
> > What I've read (and seend :-) is that ORCA is a more like a plugable
> > platform and gnopernicus is more like a direct solution for gnome
> > applications, but the two projects are working over the at-spi layer.
> >
> > Is there any relationship between this projects?
> > or I'm missing something....?¿?
> >
> > Thanks a lot :-)
> >
> >
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