State of accessibility in linux

[Marcel Oats]

Hi Al, this is interesting.  I am wanting to install Ubuntu on a 
machine of my own so as I can fiddle with it and do these kinds of 
things myself.  I seem to be mistaken a lot of the time, but I 
believe there is no support for Speakup in Ubuntu yet, is that 
correct?  Their accessibility guide on ubuntu wiki is very limited, 
in that it tells us how to start gnopernicus from the live cd, that 
if you perform an install it is installed as well, and also that 
speech is not available during the graphical installer.
Their boot manager is interesting as well.  I need to get some eyes 
round here I guess, (smile).

Since it is debien-based, I guess there'd be nothing to stop me 
installing a speakup-enabled kernel.  Yes, I'd download Orca from 
source, possibly from cvs.
Anyway, enough rambling.

Marcel

At 12:56 PM 5/06/2006, you wrote:
>Hello Marcel,
>
>If you're using Ubuntu Dapper, then Orca is available in the universe
>repository.  The name of the package is actually gnome-orca, because Orca
>was already taken by another package; However, development is moving very
>rapidly.  The package currently in Universe was created a couple months ago,
>and is already significantly out of date, so you're probably better off
>either downloading the 0.2.4 source from  gnome.org, or getting the latest
>via gnome CVS by checking out the 'orca' module.
>
>--Al
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:12 PM
>Subject: Re: State of accessibility in linux
>
>
> > Hi, thanks for that, I'll check this out.  Interestingly, Ubuntu,
> > which is what we are playing with at present, now has Gnopernicus
> > available as part of their "assistive technology".  Pity they didn't
> > consider Orca instead, though since it's only available in source, it
> > could pose problems anyways for updating.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Marcel
> >
> > At 02:43 Ay M 5/06/2006, you wrote:
> >>Hi Marcel,
> >>Orca is designed quite differently than Gnopernicus, and its major
> >>advantage is that there is almost no learning curve involved in terms
> >>of being able to use the screen reader.  Orca speaks most information
> >>automatically, and if there is a need for using flat review, you can
> >>activate it with a single keystroke.  At that point, the keystrokes
> >>for reviewing are much like those in Speakup.
> >>Right now, web browsing is still a bit cumbersome, but everything
> >>else works quite well.  GAIM, Star/OpenOffice, email, file browsing,
> >>system administration tools, the list goes on and on.
> >>
> >>To get more info about Orca, visit
> >>http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/
> >>
> >>Ricky
> >>
> >>At 03:56 PM 6/3/2006, you wrote:
> >> >Hi, would you say it's better than Gnopernicus?
> >> >Marcel
> >> >
> >> >At 04:22 Ay M 1/06/2006, you wrote:
> >> > >Hi,
> >> > >For information on Orca, check out the project home page at
> >> > >http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/
> >> > >
> >> > >Despite the fact that Orca is pretty much still in the alpha stage,
> >> > >it's amazingly functional and easy to use, and works with most apps
> >> > >right out of the box without the need for scripting.
> >> > >
> >> > >I'd strongly encourage anyone interested in exploring the Linux GUI
> >> > >environment to give it a try.
> >> > >
> >> > >Ricky
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >At 06:45 PM 5/25/2006, you wrote:
> >> > > >Where can I find information on Orca?  Thanks!
> >> > > >
> >> > > >Propaine
> >> > >
> >> > >
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