[Athen] unix screen reader
Saroj Primlani
sarojprimlani at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 10:38:56 PDT 2011
As far as I know GNOME ( http://live.gnome.org/UnixPowerForDesktop) is still
the only accessible GUI for both UNIX and Linux and Orca is the screen
reader for this environment. Orca was developed by SUN so I don't know what
the state of the art of it is now since SUN was purchased by Oracle. It
worked really well when I used it. We did a great deal of work on it to
make X11 environments accessible to blind users.
Saroj
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> From: Greg Kraus <greg_kraus at ncsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Athen] unix screenreader and JAWS & webex
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> Orca is the main screen reader for Linux. You just bring up a terminal
> window and type the command "orca".
>
> WebEx has issues with JAWS. The accessibility is all achieved through
> keyboard shortcuts, and fully navigating everything in the UI is
> extremely difficult if not impossible for some things.
>
> Greg
>
> --
> Greg Kraus
> University IT Accessibility Coordinator
> Office of Information Technology
> North Carolina State University
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> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Howard Kramer <hkramer.atsol at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello All:
> > Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of a screenreader for a Unix
> > environment. I'm sure I've heard that there is a screenreader for linux.
> > I think I've also heard that WebEx is not very screenreader or JAWS
> > friendly. Can anyone verify this?
> > Thanks,
> > Howard
> >
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> From: Jeffrey Dell <jeffreydell99 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Athen] unix screenreader and JAWS & webex
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> Orca is the screen reader for Linux which works on the gnome desktop.
> This desktop can also be used on Unix if I'm not mistaken.
> Here are some links for blogs and websites for Orca and Accessibility
> on the Linux/Unix platforms
> http://blog.carrolltech.org/archives/category/orca
> http://www.unix.com/man-page/all/1/orca/
> Jeff
>
> On 7/1/11, Greg Kraus <greg_kraus at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> > Orca is the main screen reader for Linux. You just bring up a terminal
> > window and type the command "orca".
> >
> > WebEx has issues with JAWS. The accessibility is all achieved through
> > keyboard shortcuts, and fully navigating everything in the UI is
> > extremely difficult if not impossible for some things.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > --
> > Greg Kraus
> > University IT Accessibility Coordinator
> > Office of Information Technology
> > North Carolina State University
> > 919.513.4087
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Howard Kramer <hkramer.atsol at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello All:
> >> Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of a screenreader for a
> Unix
> >> environment. I'm sure I've heard that there is a screenreader for linux.
> >> I think I've also heard that WebEx is not very screenreader or JAWS
> >> friendly. Can anyone verify this?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Howard
> >>
> >> --
> >> Howard Kramer
> >> AHG Conference Coordinator
> >> Access Specialist
> >> 303-492-8672
> >> fax: 492-5601
> >> Disability Services
> >> Division of ODECE- achieving excellence through diversity and inclusion
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> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:56:07 -0600
> From: Howard Kramer <hkramer.atsol at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Athen] unix screenreader and JAWS & webex
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> Cc: Lee Shayler <l.shayler at comcast.net>
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> Thank you Jeffrey, Greg.
>
> -Howard
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jeffrey Dell <jeffreydell99 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Orca is the screen reader for Linux which works on the gnome desktop.
> > This desktop can also be used on Unix if I'm not mistaken.
> > Here are some links for blogs and websites for Orca and Accessibility
> > on the Linux/Unix platforms
> > http://blog.carrolltech.org/archives/category/orca
> > http://www.unix.com/man-page/all/1/orca/
> > Jeff
> >
> > On 7/1/11, Greg Kraus <greg_kraus at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> > > Orca is the main screen reader for Linux. You just bring up a terminal
> > > window and type the command "orca".
> > >
> > > WebEx has issues with JAWS. The accessibility is all achieved through
> > > keyboard shortcuts, and fully navigating everything in the UI is
> > > extremely difficult if not impossible for some things.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > > --
> > > Greg Kraus
> > > University IT Accessibility Coordinator
> > > Office of Information Technology
> > > North Carolina State University
> > > 919.513.4087
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Howard Kramer <
> hkramer.atsol at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> Hello All:
> > >> Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of a screenreader for a
> > Unix
> > >> environment. I'm sure I've heard that there is a screenreader for
> linux.
> > >> I think I've also heard that WebEx is not very screenreader or JAWS
> > >> friendly. Can anyone verify this?
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Howard
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Howard Kramer
> > >> AHG Conference Coordinator
> > >> Access Specialist
> > >> 303-492-8672
> > >> fax: 492-5601
> > >> Disability Services
> > >> Division of ODECE- achieving excellence through diversity and
> inclusion
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