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List:       kde-accessibility
Subject:    Re: general accessibility question
From:       Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs () igalia ! com>
Date:       2019-08-02 17:03:07
Message-ID: 21a68f4c-626b-0aea-b0af-d7ed06121501 () igalia ! com
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Hi Adri.

I'm the Orca maintainer, and when the KDE community (especially Frederik 
and Chrys) reach out to me to look into an issue, I try to do so in as 
quick a fashion as possible. And the collaboration usually leads to KDE 
accessibility improving, either by changes in KDE or in Orca or both. I 
expect that to continue for the foreseeable future.

GNOME Shell goes beyond the scope of this mailing list, but as a quick 
aside: I just took a look at the dash and noticed there's a new panel 
for each item. Orca was presenting that (so extra chatty). Orca no 
longer is. If that was the problem, it's now fixed in Orca master. If 
there are other issues that are not KDE specific, feel free to raise 
them on https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list.

HTH.
--joanie

On 8/2/19 11:20 AM, adri wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I am a blind user of operating systems. I am using Windows as my 
> mainstream OS, for years, but I am searching an accessible linux distro 
> or something like this.
> 
> I've seen that there is a couple of accessible distros, like Vinux or 
> Sonar, but both are discontinued and deprecated
> 
> I use to work with debian, because I know the basic commands and I am 
> able to use the terminal. But the problem comes when I want to find an 
> accessible and lightweight desktop environment. Most desktop 
> environments are unaccessible, and I've tried gnome, but I don't like 
> it, there are so much things that Orca don't read properly, like the 
> left side bar, wich contains application icons, and I   don't like the 
> searcher that appears when I press the Super key, I think the gnome 
> desktop is the worst accessible desktop I've seen, but a lot of people 
> talks about it as the best accessible desktop, I suppose that they say 
> this because Orca is based on gnome desktop.
> 
> Okay, my main question is, is KDE desktop accessible? Does it uses Orca 
> as screen reader? or there are other screen readers on KDE desktop?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 

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