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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Your pal is full of it, my friend.  Linux accessibility is way way better these days than it ever has been.  
I've been using it since 2010 and, it did experience a slight regression when gnome3 came out in like 2011 or 
so but that's all been long since overcome and far surpassed.  As for the old clunky hardware quip, I bought 
an Asus pc brand spanking new in Dec 2013-Jan 2014, wiped Windows on it and installed the then latest and 
greatest Ubuntu to use as a server/workstation.  I run Gnome, Emacspeak and console on it with their 
respective "eyes free" solutions and use them fine.  It's now my OS of choice at the house since I absolutely 
loathe, hate, despise and abhor Windows 8 with a purple fiery and incandescent passion even though it's 
plenty accessible.  So, my advice to you is just try it.  Grab a pc you aren't using that's relatively new, 
if you have one, and pop in a CD.  These days, it's a lot easier to pick a distro that works right out of the 
box since you can do a super alt s and get it to talk.  If you don't have an unused pc lying around, install 
Vmware on a windows machine and make yourself a virtual machine of a Linux distro.  Probably take you as much 
as an hour to an hour and a half to get it installed and running.  Then, you can see for yourself that the OS 
is quite accessible and won't have to rely on that person's half-baked assumptions about something he or she 
clearly knows absolutely nothing about. 

Regards,
Alex M
 

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Keith Hinton
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 1:30 AM
To: orca-list
Subject: [orca-list] The State Of Linux Accessibility

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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