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

[chrys87 <chrys87 web de>]

Hi José Vilmar,

for this:
> Occasionally I need to give maintenance in some applications written 
> in asp and power shell , and for that I run Windows in a VM using 
> virtualbox . VirtualBox is not quite accessible but you can use its 
> command line interface. 
Did you try Gnome-Boxes? it seems to be accessible at a first(realy 
fast) look.
anyone experience with that?


Am 05.08.2015 um 14:56 schrieb José Vilmar Estácio de Souza:
> Hi.
> I just use Linux since 2010 , and for me its accessibility has been 
> improved every day. It is true that we had problems in moving to the 
> gnome 3 but this is a thing of the past.
>
> Actualy I am running linux on a dell vostro 5470 with 8GB of ram. It 
> does not seem a very old-fashioned machine .
>
> I can run virtualbox using the command line, eclipse to develop java 
> apps, read e-mails, access the internet and etc.
> Occasionally I need to give maintenance in some applications written 
> in asp and power shell , and for that I run Windows in a VM using 
> virtualbox . VirtualBox is not quite accessible but you can use its 
> command line interface.
>
>
>
> On 08/05/2015 03:30 AM, 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 My friend says to me that most of you are using old clunky outdated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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