Hi Don, > Hi all, > > I have posted much of this to the orca-list so my appologies for the > cross-posting. > > My situation is that I am needing to run oracle enterprise linus 5.0.01 (a > derrivative of rhel 5.0). > It coms with orca-1.0-2.fc6, and associated packages. > > All was fine when I installed the o/s. However, I wanted to make a couple of > small changes like adding braille support, and adding the ttsynth speech > synthesizer. > > ... > > My desire is to get an environment stable enough to perform accessibility > testing of Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle database management tools. Oracle > would prefer that I use enterprise linux rather than one of the more > "accessible" flavors like ubuntu, fedora, or debian. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Separate from any specific suggestions you may get as to the minimum set of packages to update to make this all work, I'd like to share with you a basic observation - one we've struggled with at Sun in our decisions about when and how to fold things like Orca into our Solaris releases. Accessibility improvements are happening at a *very* rapid pace, and they are doing so in the latest GNOME releases, on the latest OS releases (on top of the latest Linux kernels, latest Solaris builds). Insisting on using the latest in accessibility on top of a slow-moving, conservative "enterprise" edition is always going to be a huge pain, and always going to involve hard-to-track-down bugs. My strong recommendation is to test your apps for full accessibility with the full support for the latest accessibility features on the non-enterprise editions of UNIX variants - e.g. on Ubuntu or Fedora or OpenSolaris (and perhaps best, a bit on all three). Then go back and make sure that the accessibility support (whatever it is) in the "slow-moving and conservative" enterprise editions also work, so you know you are supporting the less functional accessibility that is being sold in the enterprise variants. In that way, you will know that you will work with what is supported today in the enterprise (with it's less feature-full accessibility), as well as the latest in accessibility that will become part of tomorrow's enterprise UNIX OS releases. Perhaps this is an error on my part, but I frankly think an organization is more likely to give a user with a disability a copy of Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSolaris rather than attempt to support some odd mixture of old and new platform libraries in an edition of an "enterprise" UNIX. It'll be much less headache and hassle. And of course, for users who don't need the newer features (e.g .a user for whom a large print theme is all they need for their vision impairment), enterprise editions are largely there and can be used "directly, out of the box". Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
