Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

[Alex Snow <lists h14me homelinux net>]

The issue with speakup with respect to being included in linux distros 
is the fact that it breaks with almost every new kernel version.  This 
makes it difficult for a distro maintainer to get it running with the 
particular kernel they want to ship.  If speakup could be stabalized 
to work across many kernel versions then it would have less of a 
chance of being dropped by a particular distro.  On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Hermann wrote:
> am Di 11. M?r 2008 um 09:50:27 schrieb Janina Sajka <janina a11y org>:
> [...]
> > > 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
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