getting orca included in gnome 2.16

[Jason Grieves]

Hi,

Yeah I was actually talking to Steve Kannel about the issue.  He has agreed
to test out LSR, since he uses the voice of JAWS and Zoomtext occasionally.
I will work on getting the packages and making some debs.

It is very ironic, and also sad at the same time how similar the products
are.  Sadly it's the disabled community that is going to lose out on this,
not the companies.  When we have IBM engineers and Sun Engineers working on
the same project but cannot work together it makes me wonder if perhaps we
have lost our focus in FREE and accessible software.  What is the community
to do?  It feels very award for all parties involved. 

Jason 
  

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[mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Henrik
Nilsen Omma
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 7:09 AM
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: getting orca included in gnome 2.16

Jason Grieves wrote:
> With that said I have talked to some friends about the Linux screen
reader.
> They feel that LSR is comparable to Orca currently, and will surpass it in
> the future.  The difference lies in the scripting capability.  Although
both
> screen readers will surpass Gnopernicus, LSR provides a higher abstraction
> than Orca.  Orca relies heavily on the at-spi layer, and if that layer
> changes, the majority of its scripts will break.  However the LSR scripts
> that users make should be fine, with a couple of touchups to lower levels
of
> the code.
>   
Jason, you've mentioned this a few times. Any chance you or the LSR team 
could prepare some an Ubuntu .deb so those of us who are not seasoned 
devs could give it a try? :)

We are clearly at a generational shift in screen reader technology and I 
agree that it makes sense to look carefully at both strong candidates.

It's a bit ironic though that these two IT giants, Sun and IBM are now 
suddenly (MA ODF perhaps?) working on a much improved version of a key 
AT tool, in the same language (python) but in separate code bases. To 
make it worse the licences are incompatible, which blocks the flow of 
code between the two, which in turn removes the encouragement to make 
compatible configuration interfaces or script files.

- Henrik


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