The survey is out of a university, not part of a larger gov plot....grin.
Do not forget the populasrity of chromebooks over the last year or almost 2 now I guess it is. While you can argue a bit about whether chromeOS is a
niche opperating system perhaps, (I could not argue one way or another having no eperience), ichromevox is the screenreader for more than chrome as we
know it on Linux or that Microsoft OS.
The survey is more about web accessibility if I remember correctly than general purpose computer accessibility, so talking a browser specific
screenreader does make sense in that context.
Lots of the younger blind people coming up are dumbed down in to us9ing web apps when they are not necesary for school or work. Not knocking the current
batch of kids, each generation has its own "blind spots" if you will pardon the poor pun.
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kendell clark wrote:
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 07:18:18AM -0500
> >> <stommepoes stommepoes nl <mailto:stommepoes stommepoes nl>>
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> hi
> This is definitely possible. I was talking with some people on the
> talking arch channel and we were all wondering why orca didn't get a
> mention. After all, chromevox is on the list, and that barely
> qualifies as a screen reader. It's more of an application specific
> reader, which ... well, whether it counts or not is debatable I guess.
> I think it all boils down to the blind government agencies, of which
> this web accessibility thing is probably associated with, conveniently
> forgetting to give linux any mentions at all. I've noticed this a lot,
> but I don't have an answer. My cinical side thinks it's some plot to
> make windows and apple invaluable, while the rest of me has no idea.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>
>
> kk wrote:
> >
> > Hi all. orca is indeed being used in India extensively, specially
> > in the south. And I think this is deliberate social engineering by
> > some exploitative proprietary mafia which wants people to have
> > another reason not to use a free OS. Given that NVDA gets a mention
> > at all the places, it being open source, then why not Orca? The
> > reason is very simple, you still need proprietary OS and other
> > proprietary software with NVDA right? But Linux is free as in
> > freedom and to a great extent as in free of cost. So they want to
> > defeate the very social purpose. Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
> >
> >
> > On Monday 27 July 2015 01:03 PM, Trenton Matthews wrote:
> >> hmmm. Fewer usrs? Nah. Small community, definitely.
> >>
> >> As for it not being on the survey, (which i think is closed now,)
> >> I wonder the reason why Orca isn't on the list, is because it
> >> doesn't get enough press. Same with Supernova and Cobra on
> >> Windows for that matter...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:09 AM, _mallory
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 09:17:52AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> >>> I wanted to pass this link along to you guys so the Orca
> >> community is more represented in these things so, I’m terribly
> >> sorry about the cross posting. This is a survey conducted by
> >> Webaim to find out how accessible screen reader users think the
> >> internet is. What bugs me is that they mention nearly all
> >> screen readers except for Orca. Last time I mentioned it to
> >> them, they said it was because they didn’t think anyone used it
> >> much so, they didn’t include it. Chromevox was there though
> >> which I would argue has fewer users than Orca does.
> >>
> >>> http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey6/
> >>
> >> Jared even made a snarky comment about Orca users:
> >> https://twitter.com/jared_w_smith/status/618529195761668096
> >>
> >> It would be nice to know if Orca is more heavily represented in
> >> countries like India and Brazil, because I'm pretty sure the
> >> WebAIM surveys are very Western-biased, where having a Windows
> >> machine is often an automatic default.
> >>
> >> _mallory _______________________________________________
> >> orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org
> >> <mailto:orca-list gnome org>
> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit
> >> http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The
> >> manual is at
> >> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> >>
> >>
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> >> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find
> >> out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing
> >> list orca-list gnome org
> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit
> >> http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The
> >> manual is at
> >> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> >>
> >>
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> >> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find
> >> out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing
> > list orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual
> > is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> >
> >
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out
> > how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> >
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> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp