Re: [orca-list] Orca and IDEs

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 10:17 +1000, Jason White wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Strange that, I seemed to be heading for the emacs answer anyway. I was
> > thinking of emacspeak in a text console, but I would like braille as
> > well (I don't know whether brltty in a text console will be as good as
> > from a screen reader which may do more intelegent processing of what to
> > display). 
>
> BRLTTY from a text console is much better than BRLTTY with Orca. It supports
> more features, including more navigational commands, at the console.

I would agree about this, I regularly am using brltty in a text console
and speakup for speech output and then orca when those fail me (eg.
access to a widely used browser for those annoying pages that only work
with very specific browsers). In the area of braille there is quite alot
about orca which I find annoying. Possibly the use of the term "screen
reader" was wrong for what I was asking, I was meaning whether something
like speechd-el which has braille support for emacs would be better than
just brltty with the text console driver stuff, like I have been lead to
believe the speech output from emacspeak is meant to be very good
compared to some general screen readers and editors.
> The Orca developers are working to improve this situation, in relation to
> which there are several bugs currently open.