Re: [orca-list] The State Of Linux Accessibility

[kk <krmane gmail com>]

At the outset my Specs
Thinkpad t440 (I guess all know it is one of the latest ultra books ) 8 
gb Ram and I5 4th generation Intel processor and the latest Intel 
Motherboard to go with it.
So that claim of linux not working on new machines go out of the 
"windows " (pun intended ).
Web accessibility with Firefox is really great these days, talk about 
browse and focus mode and the way performance has gone up is really 
commendable.
Libre Office is doing fairly good word processor does absolutely fine 
except for comments.  We did have a discussion on this a few days back.
Spreadsheet is also really working like a charm.
I believe we don't have that much accessibility on Impress so that needs 
improvement.
I have other methods of doing professional presentations.
But pdf accessibility is the only factor which really need improvement, 
although we can read pdf files.
OCR does well and there are people who hav been doing a lot.
So it seems either your friend is ignorant or there are other reasons 
due to which he has such an extreme view.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.





On Wednesday 05 August 2015 12:00 PM, Keith Hinton wrote:
> Hi folks,
> it has been a very long while since I have posted to the Orca mailing list.
> In fact, more than a year.
> I was writing in to find out from people who know what they are
> talking about what the current state of Linux accessibility is with
> Orca, etc.
> I was wondering how the major Linux distributions like Fedora, Open
> Sues, etc are doing with Orca, Speech Dispatcher, and generally over
> all how is Linux these days?
> I have avoided Linux for a long while because I have a friend who
> believes  actually, who is utterly convinced that linux accessibility
> is going backwards.
> But I don't honestly know for sure if that is so.
> So, I naturally question him and would like to know from those of you
> out their who are involved in Linux accessibility generally how do you
> think Linux is?
> WouldI be able to run something under Gnome these days like Virtual Box?
> How does Linux perform with the latest and greatest CPUs, multi core
> SMP hardware and such from your experiences>?
> My friend says to me that most of you are using old clunky outdated
> hardware which is why you don't get Speech Dispatcher or Orca
> subsystem crashes, etc.
> But I haven't used Linux in so long that I figure the time is now to
> actually just come out and ask and see what responses I get.
> Obviously, I know that everybody will have their own distribution prefferences.
> But I'm not here to start a war on Ubuntu, vs Fadora, etc.
> I am trying aside from an OS specific fight to figure out what the
> current honest state of Linux accessibility is.
> Is it actually falling back and going backwards and thus dying out?
> I don't know.
> Is it worth grabbing something like the latest oh, I don't know, Open
> Suse, Fadora or similar and giving Orca a spin?
>
> So I was hopeing some of you out their might have a better idea.
> Thanks!
>
> All the best,
> Keith
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