Re: [orca-list] is orca more accessible on linux, or open solaris?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I think the short answer is a no. However there may be reasons relating 
to accessibility why you may choose one over the other.

Longer answer:
Orca works with the GNOME desktop and any other system which uses GTk 
and/or at-spi. As these desktops are available on any distribution and 
in the main the applications you will use are the same, the experience 
from the accessibility angle should be the same. Why it may differ is 
that some distributions may do more to assist you in getting 
accessibility working, they may not prescribe a particular way so much 
(IE. give you more freedom to customize it as you want) and some of the 
distribution specific tools may varying in accessibility (eg. the GUI 
for a package manager).

Something you may also want to consider if thinking about other unix 
systems and if you use the text console with speakup, is that only linux 
works with speakup. For other unix systems like solaris, you will need 
to look to screen readers like YASR.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Justin Mann wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does Orca work better from one distro of linux/unix better than another?  In otherwords should accessibility 
> be improved in opensolaris over say Ubuntu, and/or Fedora?
> Thanks