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

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

I agree with most of what you say, of course, but lawsuits are a factor. 
I work for the University of Wisconsin. In the early 2000s, the IT staff 
in the libraries had to replace Macs with Windows machines because, at 
the time, there was no screen reader for the Mac. I don't know if 
anybody actually filed a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin but 
that's why they replaced those Macs. Apple cannot drop support for 
Voiceover, the same thing would happen today. One could argue that Apple 
doesn't have to do such a good job of supporting Voiceover or they could 
charge extra for it. But they can't drop it.

I work for the Math department at the University of Wisconsin. We have 
Linux machines in our labs. But we couldn't do that if it wasn't for Orca.


On 12/22/21 05:33, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Very easy to answer and no law suits aren't even a factor.
> Developer counts are the controling factor.  Orca has one developer and
> you can be sure VoiceOver has always had and continues to have more than
> one developer available to work on the project.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Reece O'Bryan via orca-list 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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