Orca: A screen reader sailing into uncharted waters
Orca, the screen reader of the GNOME Desktop, is moving into previously-uncharted territory: giving computer users who are blind -- and the developers of the assistive technologies they use -- a single tool which is more tightly integrated within the platform and designed to access multiple desktop environments, including KDE. Orca, the screen reader of the GNOME Desktop, is moving into previously-uncharted territory: giving computer users who are blind -- and the developers of the assistive technologies they use -- a single tool which is more tightly integrated within the platform and designed to access multiple desktop environments, including KDE. This session will take a brief look back at the history of Orca and screenreaders in general and bring audience up to speed on screen reading technologies. With this foundation laid, the current and future development of Orca will be presented, including the team’s efforts to further eliminate access barriers for people with visual impairments.
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Orca: A screen reader sailing into uncharted waters
- 1. Orca A screen reader sailing into uncharted waters FOSDEM 2011 Alejandro Leiva <aleiva@emergya.es>
- 4. As they navigate using the application's commands
- 10. Employ “tricks”
- 11. At best : somewhat unreliable
- 12. At worst : unusuable
- 13. BUT no dependence upon applications and toolkits doing the RightThing
- 15. Direct communication with applications/toolkits
- 16. At best: very reliable
- 17. At worst: noticeably slower
- 18. BUT depends 100% upon applications and toolkits doing the RightThing
- 19. Welcome to Orca
- 21. It is a screen reader for AT-SPI/Atk-ready desktops
- 22. It is an open-source project under the GNOME umbrella
- 23. It is a project with an impressive user base
- 25. Official screen reader of GNOME in 2007
- 29. Tracks the caret and focus via AT-SPI events
- 30. Provides a way to spatially review screen contents
- 31. Provides customized and customizable handling through applications and toolkits scripts
- 34. Provide support for users with learning disabilities
- 35. Provide access to other desktop environments
- 37. It is hard to “keep up” with external changes.
- 38. We cannot be a “one size fits all” solution.
- 39. Contributing to Orca needs to be easier.
- 40. What We're Planning To Do About It
- 41. We have a plan ! (Make Orca truly extensible – and more performant )
- 44. Co-existing with other ATs; not driving them
- 46. Speech (for users with learning disabilities)
- 47. Braille
- 48. Magnification
- 49. Highlighting
- 50. Stuff we haven't thought of
- 53. Caret Navigation
- 54. Structural Navigation – jump amongst objects
- 55. Structural Navigation – list of objects
- 56. Chat Support
- 58. Skim Reading
- 61. Application and toolkit idiosyncrasies
- 62. Reduced (eliminated?) need to know AT-SPI
- 66. To provide configuration tools
- 68. Plugin language
- 69. GUI and settings backends
- 70. Documentation
- 73. GSoC
- 75. More functionality for Orca users
- 76. More accessible desktop environments
- 77. Way for other applications to become AT tools
- 78. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Avenida de la Innovación · 3 · C.P. 41020 · SEVILLA · Tel. 954 51 75 77 · 951 21 04 00 · Fax. 954 51 64 73 · www.emergya.es Thanks for your attention! Questions? More information and free beer Alejandro Leiva < [email_address] > // @gloob