[orca-list] Fedora, was RE: I experience very positive results with new QT Accessibility Bridge related with Skype

["Albert Sten-Clanton" <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Fedora 13 is the latest speakup-modified version, as far as I know.  15 may
be on the way.

Al 

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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [orca-list] I experience very positive results with new QT
Accessibility Bridge related with Skype

I haven't been following it lately, but there's the Speakup Modified Fedora
Distribution at http://speakupmodified.org/.

On 26/09/11 10:37, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hmm.  I didn't think Fedora was all that accessible.  Is this untrue?
> Is anyone running Fedora on this list?  How well does Orca and Speakup 
> work on there?  Is there much tweaking involved before you get a 
> working accessible machine?  I'm doing a lot of studying in my spare 
> time to see about a Linux-related certification in the future.  They 
> all use Debian and Redhat and, sometimes suse as the distributions for 
> presenting the information.  Fedora is supposed to be just like Redhat 
> in many ways and it's free where Redhat costs like 50 bucks or 
> somehting like that.  I figure for now, while I'm using it for study 
> purposes, Fedora should do just fine.  Any thoughts?
>
> alex M
>
> On 9/26/11, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> > Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> > > I here you there. I think the problem is that because qt-atspi 
> > > requires a lot of newer packages like the latest atk, at-spi2-core, 
> > > at-spi2-atk, QT 4.8, etc you have to upgrade or recompile a number 
> > > of dependencies to get it to work. Even though Ubuntu 11.04 is only 
> > > six months old it is still using Gnome 2.32, and the dependencies 
> > > required for qt-atspi are Gnome 3.x from what I can see. So based on 
> > > what I'm reading from the full dependency list something like the 
> > > latest Arch or Ubuntu 11.10 is required for the minimum stable 
> > > versions of the requirements for qt-atspi.
> >
> > Or the forthcoming Fedora 16 release, and probably other 
> > distributions by then.
> >
> > Debian hasn't moved to Gnome 3.x yet, but full AT-SPI 2 packages are 
> > available from the experimental repository.
> >
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