@jab01701mid @aral The problem isn't a lack of a screen...

@jab01701mid @aral The problem isn't a lack of a screen reader, it's the lack of a consistent user-interface API. Linux has two major UI frameworks (GTK+ and Qt) and a whole mess of minor ones, so there's no single point you can plug in to and start describing what's on the screen.

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John Breen

@carnildo @aral True, the fact that Windows (and MacOS ?) supports only one Windowing system might seem like a "feature".
But assuming people are willing to use GNOME/GTK, or even Wayland, on Ubuntu, it seems like there is a good chance this could be available for linux soon, which despite the complaints, offers some significant advantages compared with Windows platforms, for all users.

19 February at 20:59 | Open on universeodon.com

John Breen

@carnildo @aral I'm curious, have you tried the Orca screen reader ? It seems to be installed by default with Ubuntu 22.04, and I had never tried it, but did just now, and while I'm not sure how it compares with NVDA, and am not sight-impared, it seems to work. ???

20 February at 1:21 | Open on universeodon.com

Carnildo

@jab01701mid @aral No experience with Orca. I'm not sight-impaired; my screen-reader experience consists of researching and using Windows and Mac screen readers so I can tell my co-workers "no, a screen reader isn't going to be able to do anything useful with that".

20 February at 6:35 | Open on indieweb.social

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