Re: [orca-list] suggested improvements for orca

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I seem to remember Compiz having a magnifier of some sort.  I ran across it when I was trying Mate last 
month.  If memory serves, it involves a magnifying glass which you move around your screen?  I don't use 
magnification personally but, perhaps one of you on here who does can comment on this.  If the new Vinux 5 
gives Mate as an alternative, would this be a viable option for someone?  I remember the compiz Magnifier 
being a big deal to people back in 2010  and 2011 with Vinux 3 when tony Sales was still heading the project. 
 Any thoughts?

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Luke Yelavich
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 12:11 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] suggested improvements for orca

Firstly, welcome to the community. I would advise that you not use all capital letters in your posts. In the 
online community, this is considered as shouting, and nobody likes shouting. :)

I'll address your comments inline, that is, below what you have originally written.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 01:25:16PM AEST, steven lunsford wrote:
> IAM WRITING TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I CURRENTLY USE WINDOWS 7 PRO 64 BIT 
> OS WITH ZOOM TEXT MAG/READER. I AM PLANNING TO USE VINUX 4.0. IT WOULD 
> BE GREAT IF THE MAGNAFICATION PART OF ORCA WAS ENABLED TO STAR 
> AUTOMATICALLY WHEN VINUX WAS STARTED. DO YOU THAT THAT THIS COULD BE 
> DONE AS AN UPDATE? OR

Firstly, Vinux 4.0 is rather out of date at the time of writing. Vinux 4.0 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 
which was released in 2012. Unfortunately it is not so easy to update Orca and other accessibility related 
software in Vinux 4.0

In the coming months, Vinux 5.0 will be released, based on Ubuntu 14.04. Fortunately, at the time of writing, 
it is much less of a problem to update Orca and some other accessibility software, so with the release of 
Vinux 5, you will have the latest stable version of Orca. Unfortunately, magnification is another story.

With newer versions of Orca however, the way magnification is used has changed. For a start, Orca no longer 
concerns itself with magnification. The best magnification currently available to the user is in the GNOME 
shell. GNOME is the name of the underlying desktop technologies used in GNOME. Unfortunately, the versions of 
some GNOME technologies used in Vinux 5 are not the latest versions, and unlike other parts of the 
accessibility ecosystem, are not nearly as easy to update.

Vinux 5 will ship with Ubuntu's unity interface enabled by default, but it will be possible to change to the 
GNOME shell, where some magnification is available, all be it, a couple of releases behind the latest release 
of the GNOME desktop environment.

The good news is even with the older version of GNOME in Vinux 5, once you enable magnification, it will 
remain enabled, even once you log out of your system and log in again.

I hope this answers your question.

Luke
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