Re: [orca-list] Hi

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Welcome to orca and ubuntu

I think we are all relatively new on this list, those who know a bit 
more seem to be secretive and live elsewhere :)

orca by default works using soft text-to-speech engines, whereas speakup 
is more towards supporting hardware synths. (I think) (speakup home is 
dead at the moment so cant varify)

speakup work with the vertual terminals, (dos style, pure text), whereas 
gnome and orca is a fully graphical desktop.


Yes, the vertual terminals are not accessable via orca, but you can 
simply bring up the gnome-terminal, which is accessable using orca.

Hope this helps

-Jon

On Sun 08/07/2007 at 14:33:48, Parham wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm pretty new to this mailing list. I joined this mailing list after somebody recommended me to use Ubuntu 
> distrobution of Linux.
> I'm blind and I use the GUI more than the command line, but I had a problem.
> As I suspect, I think Orca doesn't support the terminal quite good, that is because of such statements from 
> the Speakup list:
>
> > Sorry, something is not clear here. If Ubuntu has a screen reader itself, 
> > why do I need the support of Speakup?
>
> You don't, not if you plan to use the gui.
>
> and etc. 
>
> Having a good screen reader for the GUI version is quite cool, but there were questions I have for asking:
>
> First, does Orca really work perfectly in the text terminal? If yes, then why would I need SpeakUp as the 
> people in the speakup list suggested?
>
> Second, I'm a fan of mudding and have not found a mud client supported by Orca. If I want to get one, what 
> should I search for that I would be sure they would be supported?
>
> I think they are not easy to get a script for, since the text of the window gets upgraded as you type 
> something in, and in Windows XP SP2 that I'm already using with JFW, if I switch Jaws to "say all", it 
> would also read the text that has not been changed. In other terms, it reads the whole window. 
>
> So do you think searching a "terminal-based mud client" would take me to the correct path or you have any 
> other suggestions?
>
> Thank you,
> Parham Doustdar
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