Bill Cox wrote: > If Canonical cares about support for the visually impaired, then it may > be time to mount a significant effort to put out this fire. On every > blog I'm reading, the visually impaired are recommending that users > switch away from Ubuntu. I am currently running Orca and Ubuntu 9.04, > and I have to offer that same advice. It's more than just removing > pulseaudio. I've hacked problems for a week straight, and Orca is still > not functioning properly. There are at least a dozen major problems, > and not all of them have work-arounds yet. Clearly there was zero > testing of Orca for 9.04.
I hope you do not consider me root for pointing out the accessibility doesn't stop with the blind. As much as you may be dependent on text-to-speech, I am extremely dependent on speech to text (i.e. speech recognition). Naturally speaking kind of works under wine and it really needs some dedicated effort/money/something to get it to the point where we can dictate into any of the next application. I have some ideas on how to bridge that gap but first we need a stable NaturallySpeaking. current open source speech recognition systems are a waste of time and money. They are the wrong tool for the application, says the man with 15 years experience using speech recognition. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
