Lubuntu and Accessibility

[Alex Midence]

I seem to recall that Klaus Knopix is reputed to have had some success
making LXDE accessible in his Knopix Adrienne distribution.   Perhaps
that is something that could be used as reference?  As for
python-related slowness in Orca, I would tend to agree.  C is just
faster than Python.  Interpreted languages are going to require far
more memory and resources than compiled ones in many cases.

Actually, a saner thing would be an implementation of orca written in
both C or c++ and Python.  The low-level code in c and the more
scriptable areas in Python.  This is what NVDA's devs did and it's a
slighning fast screen reader on a bloated system like Windows.  While
we're wishing, I'll go ahead and wish for iaccessible2 support instead
of complete and exclusive reliance on at-spi/at-spi2 so that more
widget toolkits might become accessible since some of them do support
iaccessible2 but not at-spi.  I'm on a orle here so, I'll keep
wishing.  I want a faster, lag-free web browsing experience with
something akin to an off screen model, navigation by element list.
and an expanded list of elements by which one can navigate like div
and span.   The inferior browsing experience in Linux is the only
thing that keeps me going back to windows.

Just my two cents,
Alex



 Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:49:37 +0200
 From: Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at freenet.de>
 To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility
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> Hi,
> On Di, Mai 24, 2011 at 01:14:32 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
>> The first thing is making sure LXDE is actually accessible, i.e make
>> sure it has keyboard shortcuts, and supports the launching of the
>> accessibility framework at startup etc. As to using the LXDE GUI with
>> Orca etc, I think the biggest problem here is the use of python. The
>
> Hmm, do you think we should replace orca in all desktop environments by
> a c-implementation?
> Slow performance is not related to lxde only. Orca isn't faster in gnome
> as well so I can't understand what you want to say here.
>
> Regarding lxde a11y:
> I played a bit with the components in the past.
> The most dificult problem was to run at-spi-registryd before the first
> gtk app starts.
>
> The application menu works (ctrl+esc).
> pcmanfm in desktopmode doesn't read anything.
> pcmanfm started in filemanager mode works when changing to details in
> menu->view.
>
> The buttons/panels are not accessible on the desktop because of missing
> keyboard shortcuts afaik.
> HTH.
> Halim
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