Re: [orca-list] ORCA concept

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Good point.  I think Orca was initially run by folks on Open Solaris too.
That's a straight up Unix OS not a Linux distro.  I wonder if the FreeBsd
port of Debian would come with it pre-installed on the Live CD.  Free BSD is
another Unix OS.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Thomas
Ward
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 2:58 PM
To: orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] ORCA concept

Hi all,

A technical point if I may. I've seen a couple of you refer to Orca as a
"Linux screen reader" which is only partly true. I know most of us,
including myself, use Orca on Linux, but I'd prefer to call Orca an all
purpose Unix screen reader as I've run and used it on non Linux operating
systems such as FreeBSD and Solaris in the past. In short, where ever Gnome
can be run chances are you can run Orca there too.

Cheers!


On 7/8/13, Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Nandana,
> If you are a programmer, then the technical part first.
> You can't use Orca on Windows.
> Windows is a proprietary OS with a totally different set of API for 
> GUI and accessibility infrastructure.
> So you can not retro fit the a11y system of Windowds desktop nor get 
> them to do so.
> Orca is a Linux based screen reader and currently works most 
> efficiently with Gnome and Unity interfaces.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
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