You don't understand. You get to have both Speakup and Orca and go back and forth between them all day long. It's not an either or situation. It's a both and situation. Janina James Homuth writes: > My only knock against Speakup is it's strictly command line based. If I'm > sitting in front of a linux desktop, I want to be able to use a lot of the > actual desktop applications. Certain IM clients, for example. Plus, my > limited money for hardware means I can't wander out and get my hands on a > speech synth. Otherwise, when I install linux on my laptop in the next month > or so I'd go with Speakup over Orca. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Trevor Astrope > Sent: January 13, 2009 12:07 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: speakup is nice > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at CapitalAccessibility.Com Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
