From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com (mail-fx0-f213.google.com [209.85.220.213]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE56C1A2FC for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:34:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so1363695fxm.9 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.5.92 with SMTP id 28mr2390728fau.26.1268850886599; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (69-45-182-8.mod.clearwire-dns.net [69.45.182.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm99306fks.30.2010.03.17.11.34.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:55 -0700 From: Gaijin To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Linux Introduction Message-ID: <20100317183455.GA32636@gnuked.clearwire.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:34:52 -0000 On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:10:09PM -0400, JP Jamous wrote: > Thank you all for your feedback. I have to say that this is a new area for > me that I am exploring. I don't mind the command prompts, but I prefer the > GUI, due to speed and ease of use. I'm running Debian Linux on a P6 Celeron at 2GHz, and the Orca screen reader in the GUI is as slow as molasses, sometimes taking 5 full seconds for the next keypress to be read, if at all, and I'm running the fastest Seagate HDD I could find, in 1.25G of memory. I don't know if a P3 could handlethe Orca screen reader, as I think it's a piece of crap at my end. I stick with (gags) Windows and the NVDA (www.nvda-project.org) screen reader for any GUI operations here. I told those Orca losers years ago they were implementing it wrong and they'd be spending their time from now until doomsday, cleaning up other programmer'sFUBARs, but hey, what can I say. No accessibility standard, no accessibility following by the mainstream. Hehe. Michael