Re: [orca-list] Has anyone heard of this alternative?



Hi,
Too bad we can't convence them to spend development resources on Orca. Orca is far enough along to be used daily, it is familiar, works well for the most part, and is part of Gnome. Other screen reader alternatives are nice I suppose, but it would be greate to have a single reader that can rival anything out there for any OS. While Orca's features out rank all other screen readers, it could use a speed boost and it needs webkit access. Also, it has to be able to keep up with new technology, so needs constant development. So, it would be great to get everyone on the same page, especially those with the ability to help financially. That is even more important now after the betrayals of a certain company with whose name I shall not defile this message.
Storm

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On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 01:43 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
Hello,
I have just stumbled over this while trying to find contact details for 
someone who I slightly unexpectedly found would be giving a workshop in 
the same slot as I will be giving a workshop. OK, the thing of interest 
is another screen reader for Linux, a quick look at the page indicates 
its based on LSR, have a look for yourselves at http://sue.sf.net.

It raises some interesting points. Firstly its had funding from some 
part of the German government (I think). With the lack of support for 
full time developers for orca (I think we all know what I am getting at 
but I don't want us to get too much into what has been done), and having 
seen some of the comments in response to some of the blog postings, 
could we learn from SUE, could and should governments/organisations who 
are meant to help the blind do more?

The other thing is, as resources in this area seem limited, while choice 
might be nice (one great solution is better than lots of incomplete 
projects), should we try and combine the efforts of these various groups?

A different note again, has anyone tried SUE, how well does it work? I 
remember LSR, while possibly powerful, I felt possibly less well focused 
on the user experience as it seemed very general (I think I heard stuff 
saying it might be possible to use LSR as more than a screen reader, eg. 
to give people reminders to do things).

Michael Whapples
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