Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

["William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker octothorp org>]

On my first day as a Linux beginner, I patched the kernel.  It was the 
first thing I'd every patched.  It was easy, owing to the great 
instructions on the Speakup mailing list.  I do agree, however, that more 
distributions should include it.  Maybe if it gets into the mainline 
kernel, this will happen.  I think we really have a chance for this.


--
Bill in Denver

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Hermann wrote:

> am Di 11. Mär 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 everthing 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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