Re: [orca-list] State of accessibility in Ubuntu 14.

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I'd highly recommend you try ubuntu-gnome 14.04 instead of the straight Ubuntu trusty that uses unity as 
there are still 
rather serious problems making it uncomfortable to use with speech at best. Even if some of those issues are 
fixed from 
what I hear from people who know  this version of unity is not that great as far as accessability 
possibilities.  If 
anyone knows differently, please correct me, but unless I'm very wrong I'd either install the gnome version 
of trusty or 
wait till Vinux5 comes out and see whether it uses unity or gnome. 
You could install ubuntu-gnome now, make a separate /home partition, (something I always do now and recommend 
to most 
people), and then when vinux5 comes out or even a "fixed" stock ubuntu, and install that leaving my /home 
directory in 
tact from the ubuntu-gnome installation. If this means switching to unity then you could install with a new 
user-name and 
copy unity related files and directories to the old user's $/HOME dir or just use the new user when you want 
unity and the 
old one for gnome. 
While thankfully orca does now work pretty well with a few desktops besides gnome, orca is a gnome project 
and 
accessibility will likely always be the best with gnome. If it's not better accessibility with gnome will 
certainly be as 
good as any alternative for the foreseeable future. 
For now, while accessibility with gnome is the best it is good for the most part with Mate. Accessibility is 
good with 
unity for the most part except for the dash, hud results and  a couple otherminor issues that slip my mind at 
the moment, 
at least that's what I've found personally. XFCE works very well, but there is one very major problem. Panels 
and the 
desktop are not read by orca. I have to check battery state, connections, weather and so forth by other 
means. LXDE is 
somewhat accessible, but I do not know specifics as I've not tried it at all for a couple of years, and 
according to some 
things I read it seems that there is some accessibiity with KDE. These are the alternatives that I know of.
--
B.H.
 



On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 10:26:38AM -0500, Lenny wrote:
> Hi,
> I have seen some discussion on the state of accessibility in the latest 
> Ubuntu.
> Is there a solution for this, or is it still up in the air until Ubuntu 
> 14.10 comes out?
> I am    planning on putting Ubuntu on one of my systems, and I want to make 
> sure it is ready for accessibility.
> Thanks for any info.
> Glenn 
>
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