State of accessibility in linux

[Scott Howell]

Hey, you know I forgot about Orca. I heard of it ery recently and  
have been meaning to have a look at it. So thanks for the word on  
that and its good to know there's another option available for Gnome.


Scott



On May 25, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi Scott
> With regard to Gnome accessibility, don't forget about the other
> screen reader, Orca. It has great potential and, at least for me, has
> superceded gnopernicus completely. It's scriptable and has
> independent cursor moving keys similar to speakup, with the ability
> to click the mouse where the cursor is as the windows screen readers
> do. Voiceover is still much more efficient at this point, yet Orca is
> getting better quite fast.
> Just my $0.02
>
>
> On May 25, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
>> For Gnome there's Gnopernicus which at least as of the last time I
>> tried it, it worked, but wasn't very efficient. I had real hopes that
>> would be the case, but if your looking for a comparison between the
>> gui-based Linux solutions and the Mac, the Mac would win hands down.
>> I say this because so far KDE isn't accessible to my knowledge,
>> Gnopernicus despite being a solution and a good one isn't really
>> ready for daily use based on my experience, and I am sure this will
>> improve with time. On the other hand, the Mac with VoiceOver is what
>> I use daily and for a large number of tasks and its very good. Is it
>> perfect? No, but then what adaptive solution is. They all have their
>> issues, but you simply have to choose what works best for you. Now if
>> your talking about access from the console, well Speakup will win
>> everytime because there is truly an accessible solution if there ever
>> was one. Speakup reigns supreme from the console providing more
>> access than any other adaptive solution both gui or console-based.
>> Now these are just my opinions and if you disagree, that's fine, I'm
>> not looking to turn this into a pissing contest, just merely making
>> some observations based on my experience.
>>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 25, 2006, at 6:52 AM, sean murphy wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> The accessibility to Linux varies depending on which application
>>> you are
>>> using.  I know of four applications for the shell environment.
>>>
>>> Speakup
>>> Emacs speak (its own desktop environment)
>>> BRLTTY (only used with braille displays)
>>> IBM (They have a screen reader which I know very little about)
>>>
>>> There is a XWindows screen reader, but I don't know much about it
>>> and how
>>> good it is.  If anyone on the list could add some info to this, I
>>> would be
>>> welcomed.  I would like to know how it compares to Windows or MAC.
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Andrew Wagner" <wagner.andrew at gmail.com>
>>> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:40 AM
>>> Subject: State of accessibility in Linux
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all.
>>>> I'm pretty new to this list. What is the state of accessibility
>>>> for linux
>>>> users? I read somewhere that there was at one time a goal of
>>>> having a
>>>> screen
>>>> reader that functioned from boot up to shut down. Is that the case
>>>> now? Is
>>>> there a linux distribution where the installation is local and
>>>> accessible?
>>>> What projects need to be done? I have a goal to find/create a linux
>>>> distribution to get my (blind) girlfriend off her dependency on
>>>> Microsoft.
>>>> One of these days...
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