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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Keith:

Where are you getting your information?

Will

On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Keith Hinton 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.
> Anyways... the question, is Speech-Dispatcher still under development?
> From what I've heard, the project has died.
> If Gnome attempts to not support the development of Dispatcher and
> uses an unmaintained application as speech system, will this have any
> impact on Orca? Orca has to interface to something, and whatever it
> uses, I want it to be just as responsive as JAWS for Windows or
> another Windows based solution. In otherwords, instant speech when
> pressing tab, etc. Not a pause here, a lag there, etc.
> Any suggestions or discussion is more than welcome!
> Regards, --Keith
>
> P.S.
> Another opinion I have heard is that you open-Source developers are
> falling apart, that Gnome and all accessibility (including Orca) is
> dying out. Is any of this true?
> Just curious.
> A lot of my friends keep telling me to use Windows because all Linux
> accessibility solutions suck and are not worth dealing with, bc there
> all such a pain.
> If anyone can email me either on or off list regarding this I would
> value any feedback. Thanks.
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