Re: [orca-list] A question regarding the future of Orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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Yes, I think these claims about linux accessibility are unfounded.  I
personally think this area is better today than ever.  

But more specifically, I wonder about the move to Speech Dispatcher.
I personally think gnome-speech handles pronunciation of punctuations
and capitalization far better than Speech Dispatcher at this time.
Speech Dispatcher still relies exclusively on espeak saying "Capital"
before each and every capital letter where gnome-speech does not.
I've heard the debate before concerning whether the screen reader
should control such things as punctuation pronunciation and
substitution or whether the speech system alone should do it.  My
experience has been that every other screen reader as well as the
speakup patched kernel control speech effects so not totally sure
where this will go.

Another exciting thing we hope to look forward to is with the
migration to DBUS from CORBA is the improved chances that KDE will
become accessible through Orca.  Can't tell me Linux accessibility is
falling apart!

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:14:03PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> Keith Hinton <keithint1234 gmail com> wrote:
> > This might be impossible to answer.
> > But from what I've heard, Gnome is moving to Speech-Dispatcher
> > officially over what appears to be a useless tool called Gnome-Speech
> > (witch was never really good at all) never owrked on any of the
> > machines I used) over 4 PCs tested upto this point, including an old
> > laptop.
>
> It works here, so I wouldn't support the inflammatory assessment quoted above.
>
> SpeechDispatcher is still under development, and it is being prepared for
> Gnome 3.
>
> The Gnome project wouldn't move to embrace software that isn't being actively
> maintained - that would be totally irresponsible and unlikely to happen.
>
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