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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Firstly Arki, I am not criticizing yourself or Luke
I am sure you both are<BR>committed to the accessibility cause.
<BR>Unfortunately, anybody who follows the accessibility scene will be
aware<BR>that accessibility within Ubuntu is only a part time effort and
resulted now<BR>with completely speech broken Karmic distro certainly for the
typical user<BR>who just want Orca and accessibility to work rather
than struggle with<BR>configuration files, it does not work reliably for most
geeks either. <BR>Accessibility is not a glamorous field for developers to work
in for free.<BR>We have seen on this list a number of offers over time as far as
I am aware<BR>very few have gone beyond good intentions; sadly this situation is
not<BR>likely to change.<BR> <BR>Orca made huge steps forward in recent
times but this progress is held now<BR>in this case by poor audio and speech
infrastructure downstream. Canonical<BR>made fantastic job in making Linux for
the first time accessible to the<BR>masses on their desktop by making everything
working out of the box with<BR>minimal configuration and having to understand
the nuts and bolts of Linux,<BR>unfortunately this does not extend to
accessibility with Karmic (the<BR>underlying problems are there since the switch
to PulseAudio over a year<BR>ago so it is not simply regression) and until
Management are committed to<BR>follow their bold accessibility statement on the
web with action I am afraid<BR>nothing will happen. <BR> I
know that there are geeks on this list who can build their system
from<BR>scratch and optimize it to work with Orca and the best that
accessibility<BR>has to offer but this will not bring free accessibility to the
masses. <BR></FONT></DIV>
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