Re: [orca-list] future of orca

["Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" <chmiel phil muni cz>]

Please,

Which Linux distribution did You tried with Wubi? Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala?

Please, try ADRIANE Knoppix before You will think about Orca, that this 
screen reader is crashing very often.

I can not confirm this. Orca and at-spi infrastructure is one of The most 
reliable tools for getting accessibility information from operating system 
in general, and please try to believe me, I AM using computers til The 1992, 
i experienced The stage of Eureka A4 equipped with CP/M operating system 
with 8 BIt CPU. I also used DOS with text mode screen readers, i used 
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and all new Microsoft WIndows products finished 
by Windows Xp Professional SP3.

The only trouble, which Orca is facing is The problem of supporting reliable 
support for Espeak and other speech engines, this issue has been solved with 
Debian Linux, GRML and by programmers of Vinux based on Ubuntu.

Believe me please, because many crashes, which can occur while working with 
Orca can be caused by crashes of speech-dispatcher. Or Espeak with 
Pulseaudio cooperation failures.

ADRIANE Knoppix is also very goodly faces this issues.

It is fact, that Orca can not run other applications, than those, which are 
supporting at-spi. But there are many programs awailable.

I have much Linux experience and i can recommend You good distributions, 
which would be ammazing for You. And You will find out, that Orca is 
reliable and stable assistive technology.

I AM very sad, that You had so bad experience.