Yes, one very broad generalization I'll hazard to make about Linux
in general is that many tools are narrower in scope than the
one-size-fits-all applications that are more prominent on Windows.
If you knew you were going to only be working in Gnome exclusively,
Orca would really be all you'd need to know about. The Gnome
Terminal would be roughly comparable to what you think of as
cmd.exe. But there are many Linux environments where a desktop like
Gnome is unnecessary or even counterproductive, in which case you
can run a terminal without their additional overhead. For this,
though, you'd use Speakup for your access needs. You end up
researching and trying more focused packages in Linux so as to piece
together the combination that's ideal for the activities you're
doing, and this is why Linux is one of those things that takes more
to set up right, but when you set it up right, oftentimes it's about
as good as it gets. Ultimately a practice in cost/benefit analysis.
On 8/18/2011 9:27 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
Orca -sort of- works in the terminal. What most people do, or at
least what I did was just use speakup for the consoles and orca
for gnome.
On 8/18/2011 7:25 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Oh. So then if Gnome works with SuSE, (for I’d like
to be acquainted with that distribution), does Bash, KSH,
ZSH, and Onquist also work with Orca as well? I’m all
confused over the command line in Linux and it’s
accessibility features. You know how in windows when you
call CMD, you get input via the same interface (JAWS,
Window-Eyes), as you get when working with desktop and Gui
components? Does the same go for Linux? I ask because is
not Emac Speak different from Orca, and depending on which
environment you want, you have to keep switching between
them? If so, then it sounds kind of cumbersome, doesn’t
it?
You are correct, it's only Gnome for Orca users for now. As
for what Unity is, it's just a different spin on shell
management. Has more features for netbooks and touch
interfaces, given their growing prominence.
On 8/18/2011 8:51 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Now I’m trying to take steps to get myself acquainted
with Linux, and I’m just curious, what is the unity
desktop? I’ve never heard of it, but I never bothered to
look it up since I’ve heard on various threads here
probably, that Gnome is the only accessible desktop for
linux out there. Can somebody correct me on that if it’s
not true?
When I installed 11.04 I installed it using the
accessibility if you do that it defaults to the classic
ubuntu so it works perfect. I found that Ubuntu is only
getting better I hope 11.10 stays that way.
ken
At work we use a couple of Ubuntu machines which I
use with ORCA. We're currently on the 8.04 baseline but
they are being upgraded to 11.04.
As I understand it this release includes the new
unity desktop by default but you can use the older style
Gnome desktop. Does anyone know if this is write and how
you go about it?
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