Re: question about gnome

On 2 Jan 2009, at 16:30, jonathan wrote:

> I am new to the list. I am a blind linux user and was wondering with
> gnome and the orca screen reader I have noticed with diffrent distro's
> that they will have orca set up to work and some distro's do not have
> orca setup. could gnome make sure that the orca screen reader is  
> working
> before diffrent distro's package gnome for their distro?

That's really up to individual distros, each of whom are entirely  
responsible for deciding whether to enable accessibility features in a  
default installation.  You'd have to ask each one individually about  
their decision.

(As I'm sure you're aware, though, many of the major distros do have a  
variant available that's tailored to accessible installation and  
usage, so things are somewhat better than they used to be.)

> if not could some one tell me if i could take the latest build of  
> gnome and make sure
> that orca is working and take out some of the programs that a blind  
> user
> would not need and then package it for diffrent distro's. thankyou for
> your time and help.

We've certainly discussed enabling accessibility features by default  
in stable GNOME releases, and I don't think anyone really disagrees  
that it's something we should aim for.  Unfortunately, certain  
accessibility features do cause some notable performance issues for