Re: [orca-list] making Linux a hospitable place for TTS engines like Voxin

[Alex ARNAUD <aarnaud hypra fr>]

    Le 22/12/2020 à 03:21, Bill Cox a écrit :
> if
>       you are willing to direct my efforts.
    Hello Bill,
    
    Are you interested on speech synthesizer issue or are you willing to
    help on other issue?
    
    Currently on the Linux world we've many challenges:

• The status of the caps lock key is not properly reported to Orca by the qt toolkit: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-84225
  
• Audacity is not fully accessible because the Wx widget is not accessible on Linux. So making Wx Widget accessible will help a lot.
  
• Thunderbird is very slow when used with Orca with big folder under Linux, see here for details.
  
• The PDF accessibility needs to be improved because currently on Evince, heading, table or much more are not properly reported by the screen reader.
• Make Orca plug-in friendly, I know Joanie would like to implement libpears support but she doesn't have the time.
  
• Create Orca remote desktop control feature like NVDA Remote Control is.
• Improving Wayland a11y or LibreOffice a11y.
  
• And so on.
  

I summarized the desktop agnostic challenges to improve the overall Linux a11y experience. I don't think working on making another desktop accessible would be really useful at the end if we don't improve applications themself.

Thanks for providing help to improve a11y.