Re: [orca-list] PC Linux...

["Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" <chmiel phil muni cz>]

Dear master,

KDE desktop system is currently not supported by Screen Reader, which You 
could valuably use. The Accessibility project for enabling users to use KDE 
with Screen Reader is relatively new and this project exists for short time. 
The development team started with Accessibility architecture development and 
The development team is also developing Speech driver similar module like 
Gnome speech services is, but everythink is in The stage of testing and can 
not be used for valuable work.

Try to rather use Gnome desktop environment instead of waiting for 
accessibility support for KDE. Orca is providing valuable assistive 
technology tool for accessing most important and The most used applications, 
which are supporting At-spi accessibility architecture for Gnome. If You 
would like to use Linux operating system with graphical user interface 
really valuably and with best stability awailable, try some distributions 
with Orca.

Ubuntu Linux could be very good choice. Opensuse is also working very well, 
but Festival synthesizer is only included,so if You would like to use other 
languages after installation, You had to install Espeak support or You had 
to install other text to speech engines.

   Mr Walker is intensively working on The accessible Opensolaris 
distribution. But my opinion is, that Opensuse and Ubuntu Linux are now The 
best awailable distributions specially prepared for visually impaired 
computer users.

   I Am appreciating development team of Fedora and if I do not know about 
other distributions, I Am very sorry. I Am appreciating all developers of 
all Linux distributions. But I know about those distributions, Ubuntu and 
Opensuse. If somebody of us know other accessible distributions, I will and 
not only I will welcome those information.

Foresight Linux live Cd with Gnome from Year 2007 can not be installed and I 
experienced problems during plug and play process, My sound cart could not 
be founded. And Orca has been probably modified, so no setup dialog box 
welcomed Me, only Welcome to Orca main Window appeared. No chance to enable 
accessibility support for Gnome.


Opensolaris will be probably thirt distribution, which could be used by 
visually impaired users after finishing programmers work and deep 
cooperational task with development team of Opensolaris. Everythink will be 
awailable thanks to Sun Microsystems and development team of Orca and thanks 
to very valuable and kind man Mr Willie Walker. I Am very glad, that this 
man was born.