FYI, I have a PR open for object navigation in Orca here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/merge_requests/101 However, this probably still requires some work, and I suspect it will be easier to add in once the migration to the libpeas plugin framework is completed. Regards, Rynhardt On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:41 AM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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