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Re: [orca-list] VoiceOver vs. Orca - An ignorant question

Ah, whenever Orca stops talking, immediately press Alt + Control + D for the desktop. If that doesn't work, press Insert + h, then F1 or F2, then you'll have an extra window, but stuff should work again.


On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 5:29 AM Reece O'Bryan via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
I tried to think of the nicest way to ask this without offending anyone on this list, but I can’t think of a way to ask my questions without either being unclear or slightly offensive, so here goes...

Why is it that VoiceOver seems to work so much better than orca? I ask from a position of pure ignorance… is it as simple as Apple having $1 T and not wanting an ADA lawsuit while Orca is a free project done by amazing volunteers? Is VoiceOver somehow integrated into Mac OS and Orca is working with further distance from the Linux kernel?

My biggest problem with orca is that I somehow repeatedly make my system kill speech by doing very small things. If this happened with Mac OS and voiceover, then I can simply tell Siri to turn voiceover off and back on. With orca it seems as if when you kill speech, then you literally have killed it and it takes dramatic steps such as a restore or reinstall  to fix it. Wouldn’t it be easier to have a secondary, potentially even optional, process running in the background that only checks to see that speech is working with Orca and Wood restart Orca if it crashes? 

Maybe this is incorrect thinking. Is the problem that orca is running at or like software on the operating system instead of being a part of it like with macOS? Meaning an OS process should perform the check and fix of speech.

Thank you,

-Reece O’Bryan
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