Re: [orca-list] JAWS or Orca?

[Mattia Scattolin <mattia scattolin gmail com>]

Hi,

I use linux with orca and brltty for my job as programmer.

I use emacs as text editor and a lot of text based utilities.

Orca isn't as powerfull as Jaws but it's free and  it's growing very fast.

At the moment orca gives my the opportunity to do all I need and, in my 
opinion, it offers better braille accessibility than jaws dows (I don't 
use speech).

bye

Mattia



On 06/20/2009 01:11 PM, Alastair Irving wrote:
> Hi
>
> I personally find emacspeak to be very productive for writing code.   
> It has quite a steep learning curve, especially if you're unfamiliar 
> with emacs, but the results are, in my opinion, definitely worthwhile.
>
> Also, you don't necesarily have to make a firm decision between 
> windows and linux as you can run one inside a virtual machine on the 
> other, (assuming you have enough memory).
>
> Alastair Irving
> Bill Cox wrote:
> > Sorry for this obnoxious first post!
> >
> > I'm a programmer who is slowly losing central vision.  I probably have
> > 2-5 years of reasonable reading left.  I've decided to be proactive
> > and begin learning how to program with poor vision.  I've been hacking
> > in Linux for a few years now, and I absolutely love it.  I hate the
> > thought of going back to windows, but JAWS seems to be more mature
> > than Orca.  On the other hand, I hate losing control over my
> > environment, which will be especially important as I lose vision.  I
> > would also like to contribute code to improve computer accessibility,
> > which means Linux, not Windows, SFAIK.
> >
> > I've talked to one blind programmer who can listen to is JAWS based
> > reader comfortably at over 500wpm, far faster than I can read.  Do
> > Orca users achieve similar productivity?  In the end, I feel I should
> > go with the most productive environment I can find.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
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