Re: [orca-list] Orca and IDEs

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:04:57AM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
 
> 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.

I don't know anything about speechd-el, so can't comment. 

I would also recommend taking up any braille-related issues that haven't been
reported already, and submitting them as Orca bugs.

I don't think the Orca developers are deliberately prioritizing speech over
braille. The problem is that there are more speech users contributing on this
list (and reporting bugs in Bugzilla) than there are braille display users
doing so.

It is also true, though, that many problems affect speech and braille equally.
 
When using Orca, I find it necessary to have speech running, even when my
preference is to use the braille display alone. Outside of Orca, I can work
comfortably without using speech at all, although it is often useful to have
both available.