Re: [orca-list] Measures to reduce Orca and Gnome crashes

[Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com>]

On 12/31/11, Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com> wrote:
> So, for various reasons I've been using firefox with nvda instead of
> orca for the paste week and couple days.  To be honest while there are
> certainly ways the experience is better on windows I think I prefer
> using orca, and I suspect a lot of it is related to things like quick
> search working because there is no virtual buffer.

I've been using NVDA a lot because my current work requires Windows.
Being a magnifier user, I find NVDA very frustrating to use with
Firefox.  For one thing, NVDA fails to read complex web pages far more
often than Orca.  Also, I can't click on a paragraph and move the
focus there.  They have a "read object under cursor" feature that is
so cool I actually use it all the time, but after hearing a paragraph
on a web page, I can't click on it to continue reading from there!
Well... I'll probably be able to dive in and fix this in the NVDA code
at some point.  Another thing I love about Orca is I pretty almost
never feel a need to fix anything.  It's the most responsive project
to community input I've ever seen.

Overall, I'm finding NVDA does a better job with most Windows
applications than Orca does with most Linux applications.  However, I
find Orca superior in almost every way on the Python side of things.
I think what's going on here is Microsoft did a great job with their
MFC classes.  They are highly accessible, as is the Windows Desktop.
It makes NVDA's job a lot easier!

Bill