Re: Screen Reader Compatibility
- From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:11:24 -0500
I would like to include my vote for Orca. Also, for Windows, instead of
any of the commercial screen readers, why not push for NVDA support.
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On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:33 -0500, Jared Wright wrote:
> For the record, I think a Unix-flavored screen reader would also be a
> great choice. I guess I do nearly as much in Linux now as I do in
> Windows, so maybe I should've started with that instead of my thoughts
> on the Windows side. But I digress.
>
> Jared
>
> On 1/23/2010 3:25 PM, Bill Cox wrote:
> > I'll throw out a vote for Orca next. There seem to be a lot of
> > open-source blind programmers out in Linux land, and I think you could
> > reach them best with Orca integration. Also, Orca and accessibility
> > in Linux seems to be advancing rapidly. I suspect in five years,
> > looking back Orca will have seemed the obvious choice.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jared Wright<wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm definitely disappointed to see JAWS getting all the attention on the
> >> Windows side. Personal, subjective preference aside, I think most of us can
> >> agree that It's more expensive than Window Eyes, has an inferior scripting
> >> implementation compared to Window Eyes, uses more system resources than
> >> Window Eyes, and yet so many accessibility products worry about
> >> compatibility with JFW which translates to implicit support for Freedom
> >> Scientific's frivolous litigation, forced Braille driver signing, and other
> >> nonsense that serves the blind community in no useful fashion. It sounds
> >> like you've already gotten pretty far on your roadmap for Windows with JAWS
> >> already, so I'll say no more. Hopefully you'll revisit the possibility of
> >> Window Eyes compatibility in the future, although I guess with Window Eyes
> >> being more adaptable (my opinion of course) it'll be easier for its users
> >> to
> >> adapt it to Sotbeans themselves.
> >>
> >> Jared
> >>
> >> On 1/23/2010 9:59 AM, Andreas Stefik wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> We're working hard out here on screen reader compatibility on the
> >>> Sappy/Sodbeans projects in NetBeans. We're trying to decide which screen
> >>> readers we should make our code compatible with. We realistically can't do
> >>> all of them in the short term and we are starting with Jaws/ OSX Voice
> >>> Over.
> >>> Once those are complete, any suggestions on what screen readers the
> >>> community would prefer come next? Any preferences?
> >>>
> >>> We were thinking maybe a unix flavor screen reader, perhaps Orca, but are
> >>> open to suggestions. What does the community think?
> >>>
> >>> Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
> >>> Assistant Professor
> >>> Department of Computer Science
> >>> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
> >>>
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