The problem with running orca on LXDE is that it really only works well in
Gnome and so don't know that its a solution. I have tried to run it on
xubuntu which uses XCFE which is a GTK+ based desktop and it still didn't
work well enough to be functional, ie, it won't read menues.
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:58:58AM EST, Phill Whiteside wrote:
From a general chat to our head of development on lubuntu, he is of the
opinion that if the code is really (and I mean really) tight, that it would
be possible to include within the very tight constraints that we are
committed to be able to uphold the inclusion of accessibility and has agreed
that we should really strive to attain this.
The first thing is making sure LXDE is actually accessible, i.e make sure it
has keyboard shortcuts, and supports the launching of the accessibility
framework at startup etc. As to using the LXDE GUI with Orca etc, I think the
biggest problem here is the use of python. The components of the stack written
in c should be performant enough to work, and if they're not, then I am sure
upstream would be willing to help try and optimize them a little more, but Orca
being python is unfortunately a rather big blocker for this environment. I
remember running Orca on a dual Celeron 466 a few years back in GNOME, and it
was rather laggy in performance, I.e a quarter to half a second would go by
before I got speech feedback from my action.
So while I think the goals of getting Lubuntu more accessible are noble, I am
not sure it will be possible for it to be doable with acceptable accessibility
performance for users. I am not saying don't try, but unless Orca or another
screen reader was developed in c, then using orca on LXDE is likely to be
somewhat painful.
Luke
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