Willie: I think ORCA is a great product, and I agree it is good to give users with accessibility needs a choice of different programs to use.
One issue I see is that ORCA depends heavily on Python. Python (and probably more importantly gnome-python) isn't officially a part of the GNOME Platform. If the GNOME desktop community thinks it is a good idea to expose these interfaces via ORCA, it would be good if the GNOME community could clearly describe how supported the imported interfaces are. Perhaps this proposal should also mention the need to make gnome-python a part of the GNOME platform to support ORCA? I think a part of your proposal should include details about what interfaces outside of the GNOME Platform are imported by ORCA. I notice that you describe some of this here in Chapter 2 of the ORCA documentation, but you do not provide much detail there. http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/orca/docs/doc-set/orca.html#AEN2220 Brian
I'm writing this to propose that Orca becomes an official module of GNOME 2.16. Orca is a scriptable, extensible, AT-SPI-based screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop for people with visual impairments. Orca has been part of the GNOME CVS repository for over two years, and has undergone a substantial overhaul in the past 10 months, with blind people being involved in the design each step of the way. The Orca team recently "outed" Orca at CSUN '06, which is the California State University Northridge, Center on Disabilities, Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities. The response to Orca at CSUN was outstanding, and the activity and comments on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (archives at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/) have been very positive. More information on Orca can be found here: http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/ http://live.gnome.org/Orca Sincerely, Willie Walker, Project Lead, Orca _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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