On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:24:27 -0600 Nolan Darilek <no...@thewordnerd.info> wrote:
> Normally I'd stay away from development releases, but apparently the > newest Orca requires Python 3.3, and I'm experiencing some issues in the > Orca shipped with 12.10 that make it difficult to use (it doesn't seem > to respond to the command line option that's supposed to kill it, hangs > fairly regularly, and I occasionally get stuck in states where I can't > navigate websites with arrows nor do keystrokes interrupt speech.) I > know that at least the kill thing is probably resolved in Git master, > but I'm wondering about the others. > > So I'm wondering about 13.04. Since many features aren't being > publicized, are the 13.04 builds more accessibly stable than they'd be > were Unity and other components undergoing massive churn? Has anyone > experimented with this? > > What is the most accessible way to boot a virtualized desktop? Vbox is > QT, and while I know there is a command line interface, I'd really like > an easier and more accessible option for booting a Ubuntu desktop that > doesn't involve configuring a VM from scratch via the command line. > > Thanks. > As stated many times now by the developer that maintains accessibility for Ubuntu: "It is recommended that you use 12.04 LTS instead. The accessibility team does not have enough resources to make sure every release of Ubuntu is as accessible as it can be, so the team only focuses on the LTS releases. Luke" That means the next version that we know will have orca and accessibility working is 14.04. In between, things may or may not work, and should be expected to give problems. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
