Re: [orca-list] LXDE/Openbox menu accessibility

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

There hasn't been a major release in some time, true, but I just got updates to several xfce4 packages, with 
in the last 
few weeks anyway; so, I'd say it's still in active development. 
Like many opensource projects resources can be tight, but I"m hoping that accessibility improvements will be 
coming sooner 
or later. 
Is lxde still going to merge with razorqt or what ever that desktop is called, and if so, I wonder what 
accessibility will 
be like after the merge.
I'm just excited to see that there's quite a bit of interest in trying a variety of distros. Screenreader 
users have a 
variety of needs, and we do have more choices than ever before which is great. Resources can get spread very 
thinly 
though, so hopefully folks will learn from what other desktps and distros are doing and options will continue 
to expand 
and improve.
Another resource worth checking out is the vinux wiki. Some things are certainly ubuntu/vinux specific, but 
many of the 
articles are useful to those on other distros, and a majority of the comtent is designed for those new to the 
world of 
accessible Linux with some information that will be helpful to those who are a bit more advanced. New content 
is in the 
works and does go up from time to time; and of course contributers are welcomed.
http://vinuxproject.org/wiki/
will take you to the site.
--
B.H.

 
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 01:12:27PM +0200, Jakob Herrmann wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On 06/25/2014 06:05 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > A general question for anyone, but especially for the person who
> > said that lxde seemedto be a better choice  compared with xfce...
> > Are there  some accessibility issues that lxde has resolved that
> > are still problematic when using xfce?
> The reason why I would prefer lxde is not a lack of accessibility...I
> would even say that xfce is kind of more accessible, i.e. the window
> switching problem does not exist. However, it is important for me to
> use software which is under active development and the last (stable)
> release of xfce was about 2 years ago. Maybe I'm wrong and we will
> have a new release soon.
> BTW: Metacity was especially written for Gnome 2.x/fallback, so we
> imho shouldn't rely too much on that distros will keep it in their repos.
>
> Cheers,
> Jakob
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