Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Di 11. Mär 2008 um 09:50:27 schrieb Janina Sajka <janina a11y org>:
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> > For those without speakup in their kernel, it allows them to have the best 
> > of both worlds: the GUI for tasks which require it (web browsing, 
> > recording, etc), and a terminal for everything else!
>
>
> Is Speakup too expensive? What? Because I think Orca's a long way from
> equivalent access. In fact, I'm arguing it will never catch up. I'm
> arguing it can't, just from the nature of where it lives in the stack.
 
Why do more and more Linux distributors decide to take Speakup away? I 
think we should try to convince them, that Speakup is really needed by 
blind/visually impaired people to work with Linux, since I aggree with 
you, that Orca perhaps never will achieve Speakup's performance.
But you can't expect Linux beginners to patch the kernel in order to get 
Speakup.
An alternative would be yasr, but there's the need to make it work under 
unicode. A Speech-dispatcher support exists.
Note: I would be happy with the text console, if it were possible to 
develop a modern sophisticated web browser and a word processor. I 
never understood while this doesn't happen, since there's for example a 
text based spreadsheet.
Just my thoughts.
Hermann