Re: [orca-list] First impressions after the migration to Ubuntu 12.10

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

You should have tried  12.04 instead of 12.10. The accessibility experience is much better on that version. 

Alex M

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On Jan 6, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Luciano de souza <luchyanus gmail com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 and Orca 3.2.0 for a long while. Now, I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10. 
> The first impression is a whole chock. If you are acquainted with Gnome, it'll be natural to have 
> difficulties with the new interface.
> I don't know if it was a good idea, but after installing the new system, I have upgraded it. Opened a 
> spreadsheet, I noticed that Orca does not interact well with Calc. It means a lost since in Ubuntu 10.10, I 
> have used Libreoffice successfully.
> Compared to Ubuntu 10.10 and Gnome, Ubuntu 12.10 and Unity has  much more lacks of accessibility. One of 
> them is found when we press alt+F2 to access a prompt to type commands. If the command is wrong, there's no 
> way to know it.
> Actually, I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 becose, in the previous version, there wasn't newer deb 
> packages of Orca. Having installed the version 12.10, I noticed Orca was upgraded from 3.2.0 to 3.7.0. I 
> don't follow constantly the news of Orca, but I was expecting for improvements in web navigation.
> Orca has the magic command "o that allows us to find text eazily, so it would be nice to read texts by 
> means of Orca if it didn't pause before links. That's true. Texts with lots of links, for example, 
> Wikipedia texts, can't be read freely. As Orca stops before each link, the reading is so trunked that I 
> prefer to copy the text to read in Gedit. This is a severe, really severe issue.
> The lower performance is another negative aspect. I have a trio with 3.26 GHZ and 4 gigabytes of RAM> It's 
> not a top machine, but it's not a justification for so bad performance. With Ubuntu 10.10, I got 
> performance much lower than Windows, but better than Ubuntu 12.10.
> There are to main types of user: the common, worried only with the usage and the testers, worried to search 
> for new features. I have some fear of instalations and upgrades. When you have your life stored in your 
> machine, the  possibility to lose it is terrible.
> So I would like some orientation to select the more accessible distribution, the more  stable and featured 
> Orca and the best graphical user interface. Is Ubuntu the best option? Archlinux? Fedora? Open Suse?
> For my current distribution, Ubuntu 12.10, I ask:
> 1. Is there a way to use Calc spreadsheets?
> 2. Does someone know tips that can improve Ubuntu's performance?
> 3. Is Orca 3.7.0 the newer version available in deb package?
> 4. Is there something to eliminate the pauses when Orca reads links of webpages?
> I have writen this message in Gedit. When I tried to copy to Thunderbird, the information of "alt+tab" was 
> very confused. Sometimes, it stops in the wrong option, sometimes it stops to read. In Ubuntu 12.10, does 
> Orca behave as described?
> Well, if someone has any tip to become eazier the migration, I will enjoy very much!
> Best regards,
> Luciano
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