From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C46C1A312 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:19:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mta1.math.wisc.edu Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id x2RsbN0k2b3V for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:19:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADE83E0009 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:19:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ulam.math.wisc.edu (ulam.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.245]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:19:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vv507j (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ulam.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24AA42BE4B for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:19:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: From: "John G. Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20100317183455.GA32636@gnuked.clearwire.net> Subject: Re: Linux Introduction Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:19:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 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: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:19:24 -0000 With all due respect, Michael, you shouldn't refer to orca as "a piece of crap" or to the developers as losers. First of all, its not true. Secondly, it is rude and counter productive. If you think you're making people think less of orca, you're wrong. All it does is make people think less of you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Linux Introduction > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >