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

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

I also hated windows 8 and 8.1. but I am running windows10 now and it is 
fast quiet and just as good as the latest ubuntu distro with the added 
bonus I can play audio games and use my favorite voices. the latest 
ubuntu mate and windows10 are both excellent!

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On 8/5/2015 1:12 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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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