Re: [orca-list] Possibly Forking Gnome 2

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> Hi, Jason,
>
> Those are good technologies you mentioned.  I make use of them myself.
>  My only beef with them is that they are far too speech-centric which
> is all right if you just need something that provides spoken output in
> order to use your pc.  to truly make something accessible, you don't
> just make it talk.  You have to worry about magnification, braille
> output, voice input, alternative input devices and so forth.  Chrome
> Vox and Emacspeak are great if you rely on speech to interact with
> your PC.  What though, if you're partially sighted, deaf-blind or
> mobility impaired?  

The same technologies used in Emacspeak and ChromeVox can be extended to
address these needs, too. I was writing about the techniques employed, not the
specific implementations, which are speech-centric as you say.

I hope this clarifies the point.