Monday August 20, 2007

Accessibility on Linux via Orca - OpenOffice.org and other...

Darragh Ó Héiligh, a blind Linux user in Ireland, has just posted an audio introduction of Fedora Linux with Orca.

My colleague Peter Korn has a nice summary of this in his blog.

I especially like the final comment. After noting the responsiveness of Orca with TTSynth and OpenOffice.org: "It's just getting the job done faster than it is in Windows."

I like it for many reasons

• Orca is e great screen reader - and it is open source!
  
• It shows that it was worth spending some extra time in the  native UAA/ATK bridge, which we have introduced with OpenOffice.org 2.0.1.
• It shows that a good accessibility architecture, like available with GNOME, pays off

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Aug 20 2007, 12:01:26 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]