Hi Aura, Have you tried the i38 desktop?
The trouble with orca is that it is dependent on atspi. What version of atspi do you have? What distribution of linux are you running? Pranav -----Original Message----- From: BRLTTY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Aura Kelloniemi Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux Hi, On 2025-04-01 at 17:09 +0530, "Pranav Lal" <[email protected]> wrote: > First, please get up to speed on the GUI. It is a fact of life and it does > work in Linux. A lot of work is happening on the GUI side of things. Orca is > a capable screen reader and it does support braille via brltty. I use Orca everyday to access Firefox. I use the awesome window manager. My experience is that Orca's terminal support (for braille) is painfully slow and Orca's word wrapping repeats the word that gets split at the braille window edge. Also Orca freezes for me daily and causes weird scrolling issues in Firefox for sighted users. BRLTTY's capability to render terminal contents as braille is significantly better than Orca's. Also Orca does not work well on Wayland. With my window manager Orca does not speak anything. xbrlapi says "root window" while the menu of my window manager is open, which is much more information than what Orca gives me. Orca, as a Python application, is too slow to run on most mobile devices, and Orca does not support phosh (the Phone Shell). Running a full-fledged Desktop environment on my machine is not possible due to low resources. Also, I don't want to run anything which is not very customizable and lightweight. I just share my experience, because it explains my standpoint, even though the above is not necessarily relevant for the topic of my original message. -- Aura _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
