Re: Orca a couple questions



Sorry, but that was completely irrelevant to my questions and concerns. My idea for an implementation would be a relatively simple development that might help encourage/ease the ability of more software to become windows friendly. I never suggested dropping the existing standard, just adding another that could actually integrate with the existing standards, making things work better. Also, my suggestion was not a non-free suggestion.

As for JAWs, ok, I was probably quite harsh, but after dealing with it on my mom's computer, and the issues related therein, I guess I just have very high expectations for software. I will agree, in the Windows system, due to it's highly graphical nature, and the fact that many people use very custom UI components in their development, it's fighting an uphill battle. Due to it's nature the *NIX systems make a better starting point for the visually impaired, which was why I sent my question to orca - it's as far as I can tell from my searching the main serious contender in a *nix environment that won't cost a lot of money.

Thank you,
-Jim Stapleton

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson" <jbsn tpg com au>
To: "S James S Stapleton" <stapleton 41 osu edu>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Orca a couple questions


Good evening,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, S James S Stapleton wrote:

I'm still looking at it, and I had read things a few weeks ago, that
suggested orca might be beta quality still, however I want to get some more
information (and make a suggestion if it's not already been
implemented/made), partially because I know my mom needs a screen reader
(she's blind and stuck with Windows/JAWS, that latter of which is really
$2000 pre-alpha software in my experience), and some day I may need a screen reader myself... Darn genetics, and I'd rather have my BSD system available
to me.

I wouldn't characterise Jaws as pre-alpha. Although I avoid Windows like the plague, based on thirty years experience of accessing a computer as a blind person, I have to say, that both Jaws, Hal and Window-eyes do a reasonably good job of giving blind people access to Windows. Since they have been around for over ten years, it's very impressive, in my opinion, what the developers of Gnopernicus, LSR and Orca have achieved in only a couple of years. Full marks to these people.

The very nature of a graphical user interface will always be a challenge as far as access for visually impaired people is concerned, be it with braille or speech. However, I'm convinced that the approach adopted by the developers of AT software such as Gnopernicus, LSR and Orca is the right one - and it's free.

Bertil Smark Nilsson





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