Yep. I've tried orca and even bought a mac. The only time I use them is for online banking and sites where links doesn't work. Otherwise, speakup is my goto screen reader. I agree that we don't say enough just how great and liberating it is! On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, John G. Heim wrote: > I think it's not said often enough. Speakup is really, really nice. Lets face > it, when the chips are down, you always fall back on speakup don't you? I > know I do. The accessible debian install,er, talking grml CD, plus several a > talking Windows installer I built myself. They all depend on speakup. Speakup > is like that old PC you have that always works even when that new flashiy one > is on the fritz again.You know what I mean? You've got your flashy new laptop > or whatever but in an emergency, don't you want your old one running speakup? > Say your network is down and you need to make a serial port connection. What > do you want? I want speakup. When a machine won't boot, you put in your grml > CD with speakup don't you? If I'm in a panic, I always just want something > with speakup. > > -- > John G. Heim > jheim at math.wisc.edu 3-4189 > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
