Hello, well, a quick look into the code shows that this is curently far away from being a screenreader but more a very early prototyping. Lets see what happens. > Am 02.11.2021 um 09:41 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hello, > >> Accessibility on Linux has historically been under-developed, under-maintained, > > And thus let's split the effort instead of joining? Ew. > >> Members of the Rust community are reimplementing a number of C-based programs, making the argument that they can improve on the current state of the art. > > That is right for various C-based programs that are a pain to maintain > because of C. Orca is not a pain to maintain because of Python, it's a > pain to develop because the problem itself is complex. Rewriting in Rust > won't change that. > >> On the other hand, choices are good. > > Choices are good when there are enough people to work on the various > choices. Split the community, and instead of having one good software, > you have two poor software. > >> not a tremendous amount of development occurring on either. > > That's just a matter of people joining in. > >> Does Orca have object navigation? No flat review is not the same thing. > > Where is the feature request for object navigation? Where is the pull > request to propose an implementation? > >> Also, I can't remember which, but other the Orca dev or someone on Mastodon >> reviewing Orca's code said that, I believe the Terminal-access code is >> "black magic". > > For terminal access, it'll be much more interesting to run brltty, which > has decades of experience. > > brltty -b ba -x a2 -N > > Note that the "black magic" inserted in Orca is most often because it's > the application itself which exposes bogus information. > > Samuel > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list