Re: [orca-list] A real message with a question

["John J. Boyer" <john boyer abilitiessoft com>]

I am thinking of switching from Windows to Linux for ofgice work. So I 
want to avoid the bleeding edge, but I do want reasonably up-to-date 
accessibility features and desktop. I'll be using LibreOffice. What 
would be a good compromise between Ubuntu and CentOS?

Thanks,
John

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:23:07PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hello John,
>
>
> On 11/28/12, John J. Boyer <john boyer abilitiessoft com> wrote:
> > My question is whether anyone has had experience with Orca on CentOS
> > 6.3.
>
> Well, is there something specific you want to know? About the only
> thing I can tell you is because CentOS is largely using Enterprise
> packages like Red Hat Enterprise the accessibility stack is extremely
> old. From what I can tell CentOS 6.3 is still using Gnome 2.x and
> at-spi 1.x, and they are way behind in terms of modern Orca
> dependencies etc. This isn't unusual for Enterprise Linux as every
> Enterprise system I've seen over the last couple of years is way
> behind in terms of VI access packages where distributions like Ubuntu
> try to stay on the bleeding edge of things.
>
> Cheers!
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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