Re: [orca-list] GUI Redesign or clearup and modernization



Well, I also think that if Linux will be a viable system, it'll need good braille support. Otherwise, people 
will laugh and go back to iOS and Windows.

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On Sep 2, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com> wrote:

I think most people are still put off by linux is because of its lack for commercial software for blind 
folks not a whole lot of speech or voice variety or audio games, and also still having to go into the 
terminal to do some more advanced tuff. example on windows if i want to turn text to mp3 I get balabolka a 
gui application that will use any sapi5 voice sapi4 or speech platform voice in windows. in linux i have to 
hunt down terminal commands to do that. can I do that? yep sure I grew up with dos. command line doesn't 
bother me. but if given a choice between gui or command line i would mostly always choose the gui solution. 
Hopefully we will see the day when all desktop linux becomes much like an open source android OS easy, 
natural, and intuitive to use with many voice choices. I pick my OS based on what it lets me do and how its 
apps are, not so much because its GPL based. A year or so ago I used ubuntu for two or three straight 
months without touching windows. It did maybe 80% of what i wanted to do with the computer. but I missed 
the voice variety i got on windows and easy set up of audio games. so i went back to win7. I use android 
not because its linux based but because it has some of the best gps support I ever seen. I still keep a 
ubuntu disk around for some stuff like partitioning drives and keeping up with what's going on in the 
latest orca. I also considered linux for my son. but he likes to play roblox and setting that up in linux 
is still a pain and reports say it often crashes. don't know i can't see to play it. so I'll get him a 
windows7 core i7 laptop with a 128gig or maybe 256gig ssd solid state drive for games and put win10 on it 
for him. I think until linux really improves and supports major commercial software as well as the open 
source stuff it will always remain a fringe OS used by a few percent of people.

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On 9/2/2015 8:00 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
I haven't been following this thread, but the post below either confuses me or I just don't agree. I can't 
think of a single screen reader where you don't need to know at least one key stroke before starting, such 
as how to bring up the preferences. You either have to know that key stroke or be familiar enough with the 
operating system to know how to get into the preferences for an application, which I think is what the 
post below is disagreeing with.

Either way, it's an overly simplistic attitude to say that expecting someone to read some information 
about an application before using it is the reason so many people are put off by Linux.

On 9/1/2015 10:24 AM, B. Henry wrote:
Well, it's not unreasonalble to ask users to read a bit of
documentation to learn a keystroke or two when trying a new desktop,
but unless I'm missing
something folks like myself who use a window manager such as fluxbox
and fill in accessibility gaps with custom scripts would be left out
in the cold if
an orca prefs window was done away with.

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree.  I think that in this case, it is
unreasonable to expect people to be required to read documentation in
order to figure out how to set their Orca prefs.  That attitude in
general is why so many people, both blind and sighted, either are put
off by Linux, won't try it in the first place or give up without ever
installing it and giving it a fair chance.  I don't have a problem
expecting people to read a basic accessibility guide and I agree that
once people have learned the basics that they should be expected to read
the docs, but expecting them to read the docs before they even get
started is asking too much.  Other than your first statement, I agree
with what I think you're trying to say.  I think you're agreeing with my
previous post on the subject which is that regardless of what desktop or
window manager, there needs to be a universal keystroke to access the
Orca prefs.  I don't think people should have to read the docs to find
it, however.

What would be good is for Orca to open the prefs window automatically
when it's started from a live environment so people don't have to hunt
around to find them.  Maybe could a command line switch like --prefs be
added for this?  I thought there was already such a switch, but I didn't
see it when reading "orca --help" on my Ubuntu MATE 15.04 system.
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