[NFBCS] Linux Screen Readers

[Mike Gorse]

I guess I'm wondering what you want your screen reader to do, specifically 
how it would be different from orca.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Bryan Duarte via NFBCS wrote:

> Thanks Jim for your response. I was pretty sure this was the case but I wanted to check anyways. I am wondering if there is any interest in putting together a team of people to build a Linux screen reader for X windows? I do not know exactly what is required to build a screen reader but I know I could figure it out. I also do not believe it is a project I would be able to handle on my own. Is there any interest from this group before I search else where for interested folks? Thanks everyone I know this is a big ask but I blieve it is long over due for Linux X windows to have full desktop aaccess for screen reader users. 
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> Bryan Duarte Ph.D. 
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>> On Aug 21, 2022, at 9:00 AM, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
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>> I am not aware of any screen readers that work well with X windows, except for orca. Orca runs on top of gnome, which imposes extra rules on its clients so that the necessary data is made available to orca.
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>> There are, in my opinion, better commandline screen meters. YASR is a good one. But again, it only works in a terminal. 
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>> Sorry I don’t have better news,
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>> Jim