Re: [orca-list] Using Linux for everyday computing tasks and employment

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello Krishnakant,
I have a few tips/comments on what you say.

You mention you use HTML for presentations, I would have thought this 
would be limited and if you know LaTeX there might be a better option. 
Have you looked at the beamer package for LaTeX? Beamer is a package 
specifically for writing presentations in LaTeX, and this would also 
solve issues users have with openoffice impress.

As for thunderbird, I believe orca's responsiveness does go down in a 
message list as the number of messages increase. I also think that the 
responsiveness depends on where you are in the list, if you are near the 
top of the list it will respond much faster than near the bottom, try 
this (you probably will need to wait quite a long time for orca to 
respond at the bottom of the message list having as many messages as you 
have).

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Krishnakant wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 11:22 -0500, Peter Torpey wrote:
>    
> > John,
> >
> > Have you tried Thunderbird in Linux?  I played around with this about 6
> > months ago and found Thunderbird to be much more accessible than Evolution.
> >
> >      
> Hey, May be this will soon become another thread, but can you plese tell
> me the size of your inbox?
> I have about 96000 mails in my inbox and the file is about 1 gb.
> Now when I start thunderbird 3.0 on my laptop, I find that after I tab
> from inbox to the message list, orca just stops speaking.
> I did not see this when my mail box was smaller with hardly 100 emails.
>
> Is the the problem of mozila accessibility or with orca.  Who ever it
> is, I think this is buffering problem.
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> > I used Unix for many years as my main development platform, before all the
> > accessibility enhancements to Linux.  At that time, I used a Windows PC as a
> > front end to the Unix box by running a terminal emulator from within
> > Windows.  I'm amazed to see how far Linux has come since then in terms of
> > accessibility.
> >
> >      
> If you are a typical office computer user using spreadsheets for daily
> work, surff regular sites like google, twitter or facebook, chat using
> google or yahoo, then orca is more than enough.
> If you do coding, it is great.  Word processor gives you all the
> accessibility you need but for some 20% of features which you will never
> need for 80% of your work.
>
> I make presentations in html with one good template which I downloaded
> from the net, so that solves my presentation problem.
>
> Most often than not I use LaTeX which is very easy and can help blind
> person to generate richly formatted articles and reports by just
> remembering about 15 tags.
>
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> > Of course there still needs to be a bunch of work done to make Linux
> > accessibility more robust (such as being able to install and configure by a
> > blind person out of the box, conflicts of audio and speech drivers and
> > interfaces, etc.), but its incredible how accessible Linux is these days.
> >
> >
> >      
> I think once the audio conflict being talked about offlate is fixt, we
> have one of the best accessible OS till date.
> And yes I hope in coming 4 or 5 months openoffice and firefox will have
> state-of-the-art accessibility with orca.
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> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
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