ubuntu accessibility

[Josh]

Firstly Arki, I am not criticizing yourself or Luke I am sure you both are
committed to the accessibility cause. 
Unfortunately, anybody who follows the accessibility scene will be aware
that accessibility within Ubuntu is only a part time effort and resulted now
with completely speech broken Karmic distro certainly for the typical  user
who just want Orca and accessibility  to work rather than struggle with
configuration files, it does not work reliably for most geeks either. 
Accessibility is not a glamorous field for developers to work in for free.
We have seen on this list a number of offers over time as far as I am aware
very few have gone beyond good intentions; sadly this situation is not
likely to change.
 
Orca made huge steps forward in recent times but this progress is held now
in this case by poor audio and speech infrastructure downstream. Canonical
made fantastic job in making Linux for the first time accessible to the
masses on their desktop by making everything working out of the box with
minimal configuration and having to understand the nuts and bolts of Linux,
unfortunately this does not extend to accessibility with Karmic (the
underlying problems are there since the switch to PulseAudio  over a year
ago so it is not simply regression) and until Management are committed to
follow their bold accessibility statement on the web with action I am afraid
nothing will happen.  
   I know that there are geeks on this list who can build their system from
scratch and optimize it to work with Orca and the best that accessibility
has to offer but this will not bring free accessibility to the masses.  


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