I second your thoughts. I actually am always curious to try new stuff and was impressed with ubuntu because of it's internet speed specially and secondly, that it's coming up fast in terms of it's easy interface. Ya, I agree about orca and that it has a long way ahead in terms of coming any closer to JAWS or windows-eyes.
On 2/25/10, balaram <balaramputh...@gmail.com> wrote: > News reading is as easy in Ubuntu as in Windows. > The thing is, one has to understand the concepts and work accordingly > thats all. > Besides, Firefox is already providing the facilities you can have in > accessible web IE. > You can subscribe to RSS feeds with firefox and read the news as easily > as you do in windows. > Of course, Ubuntu and Orca has it's own limitations but,. things are > getting better and better by the day. One has to also take into > consideration that, JAWS was developed in the early nineteese and orca > is in the business only for the last 6 years. I am not against or in > favor of any screen reader or any operating system. > At the end of the day, what we need to do is to do our tasks easily and > comfortably regardless of the operating systems and screen readers. > > But still, I would rather like Ubuntu and orca promoted by the blind > comunity because, it is totally free and freely distributable. > The more we use this OS, the chances are more that the accessibility > issues will be solved sooner than later. > The problem it seems among the blind computer users in india is the lack > of Ubuntu and orca users to guide the majority. > You can contact me privately to ask about ubuntu and orca and I am ready > to help you within my limitations. > > Thanks and regards, > > P. Balaraman. > > > > > > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 13:10 +0530, Arpit Jain wrote: >> Hmmm, >> >> I know this is a little drawback of firefox and thats why I don't like >> it that much, but I don't think that ORCA (ubuntu screenreader) will >> work that well with any other browser because it still has to go a >> long way. >> Anyways, I will try asking if anyone is using ubuntu with screen >> reader, to suggest any other browser if at all it exists.. >> >> On 2/25/10, Renuka Warrier <eren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Actually the problem is in reading the news paper, since when we exit >> > after >> > reading any llink, the focus is shifted to the top of the page, rather >> > remain to the visited link and have to arrow down to the next link,which >> > consumes a lot of time. In the webb IE, this problem was not there and >> > the >> > time could be saved. >> > >> > Renuka. >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Arpit Jain" <arpit....@gmail.com> >> > To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:24 PM >> > Subject: Re: [AI] web brouser in ubuntu >> > >> > >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> There might be other web browsers for sure and some of them which work >> >> on windows can be made to work in linux using "WINE", but I can't say >> >> how accessible this solution will be. >> >> Anyways, is there any particular problem which you are facing while >> >> using firefox in ubuntu. I ask this because whosoever I know using >> >> ubuntu is pretty happy in using firefox. >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Arpit Jain >> >> Pune >> >> >> >> On 2/24/10, Renuka Warrier <eren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> Could anyone suggest any web brouser which works more easly than fire >> >>> fox >> >>> >> >>> in >> >>> Ubuntu9.04? >> >>> >> >>> Renuka. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to >> >>> accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >> >>> with >> >>> the subject unsubscribe. >> >>> >> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> >>> please >> >>> visit the list home page at >> >>> >> >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >> >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> >> please visit the list home page at >> >> >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >> > with >> > the subject unsubscribe. >> > >> > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> > please >> > visit the list home page at >> > >> > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. 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