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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Ubuntu 12.04 would probably be a good choice. They're not on the 
bleeding edge but they're reasonably up to date. They're currently using 
orca v3.4.2 if I remember correctly, and the latest is 3.6.2. I'd say 
arch, but I'm not currently sure if it is arch's orca package, or orca 
in general but orca is broken and requires a manual edit of one of it's 
python files to get it to start.
On 11/28/2012 06:48 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 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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