RE: Creating an Operating System with speech included

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:39:30 -0500

Actually both orca linux and Solaris are about the same.  I would put them
around Jaws 3.3 access right now.  I run Ubuntu because it's the easiest to
get working on my laptop.  I also run Redhat 9 on my server and have no
troubles with it if you don't mind hacking a bit.

Ken 

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 6:50 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included

That's good news. Does OpenSolaris and Orca offer a better accessibility 
than Windows with Jaws?

Or at least does it offer a better accessibility than Ubuntu with Orca?

Thanks.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included


> yes, solaris is a unix platform and it suports orca.
> at least for x86 cpu family
> i've worked with solaris 10,
> i've downloaded it from sun site for free.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included
>
>
>> Sorry, but I think you don't know what you are talking about.
>>
>> First, I didn't say that Jaws is a Microsoft program. I said only that
>> the best accessibility is offered by Windows and Jaws and not by Orca and
>> Linux, but not even the comparison between these 2 is important, but the
>> fact that it is very hard to create another OS with another screen reader
>> built in.
>>
>> Second, I know that Orca works with Linux, but Sun doesn't pretend that
>> they've created the most advanced Linux OS, but that they've created
>> Solaris, the most advanced OS.
>> However, Solaris is not accessible for the blind, or it is accessible but
>> only by using emacspeak, which has a very ugly interface and offers a
>> poor accessibility anyway, and I haven't tested Solaris so I don't really
>> know if it really supports emacspeak or it is just a future plan for Sun.
>>
>> By the way, have anyone tried Solaris?
>>
>> Octavian
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:39 AM
>> Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included
>>
>>
>>> don't forget that jaws is not a microsoft software and, taking software
>>> only from the two grand companies, sun is better than microsoft.
>>> Because, with orca you can do more than with narator from windows.
>>> So Sun has right assuming it as the best company offering an advanced os
>>> with speak.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 10:08 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included
>>>
>>>
>>>> Windows is an operating system with speech included. Do you want to
>>>> create a
>>>> better OS than Windows and a better screen reader than Narrator?
>>>> I guess you want to create a better one, because otherwise... why
>>>> bother?
>>>>
>>>> In order to do that, you should create a company, employ a few
>>>> thousands of
>>>> good programmers and after very many years you might do it.
>>>> Sun Microsystems has tens of thousands of programmers and they pretend
>>>> that
>>>> they have created the most advanced operating system in the world, and
>>>> they
>>>> have also made one of the most used screen readers for Linux, but the
>>>> accessibility offered by their solutions is much lower than the one
>>>> offered
>>>> by Windows and screen readers like Jaws, and Sun work on their OS for
>>>> very
>>>> many years, so... it could be very hard to do what you want.
>>>>
>>>> Octavian
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Jose Lomeli" <jose.lomeli93@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:05 AM
>>>> Subject: Creating an Operating System with speech included
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello; Listers, I just thought.  What do I have to do to create a
>>>>> operating system with speech.  I just thought about this.  Can this be
>>>>> done? Please write back.
>>>>> From Jose Lomeli.
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