Re: [orca-list] Urgent: Linux accessibility help

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I don't know anything about this program you say your employers have you
use, but can you do some or all of what you need this IBM program to do
in libreoffice? That is completely accessible in both linux and windows,
and possibly mac OSX as well. I've been out of the windows loop for
several years since making the switch to linux, but the only IBM program
I ever tried to use in windows was ibm lotus symphony, and it was very
iffy with the NVDA screen reader. I suspect symphony and this other
program you're supposed to use are completely different, and so might or
might not be accessible in windows should you be forced to use it. I'd
still urge you to give joanie a chance to look at it to see if there's
anything she can do to improve it's accessibility. Can it be downloaded
for free? It's probably proprietary and probably has to be registered at
some point, but if it can be downloaded at no charge she'll be able to
test it for orca accessibility. She uses fedora, not rhel, but if
there's a package for rhel it will usually install and work in fedora.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I know on stock Ubuntu 16.04 and Vinux 5, which is based on Ubuntu
> 14.04, you can definitely run Orca 3.20.1. Luke and Rob just pushed
> this out to Vinux 5 and maybe stock Ubuntu 14.04 just a week or two ago.
>
> On 06/06/16 14:14, B. Henry wrote:
> > Try
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > maybe some package was added or removed that effects orca
> > dependencies, can't remember what it is or if that is the case, but
> > kind of think it may be.
> > YOu certainly should be able to update your orca though.
> > Luke or Rob who converted ubuntu 14.04 to vinu5 should remember
> > anything they had to tweak to make latest accessibility a reality.
> > I don't have a stock 14.04 image so can't test things quickly.