What you are saying Peter makes a lot of sense. I just want to make sure of something which I have never tested. The orca/gnome setup on a client machine will not read information redirected from another machine like the oracle server using the export DISPLAY=client.host.name:0.0 method. Is this assumption correct? TIA, Willem
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Peter Korn wrote: > 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 > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
