[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Pranav Lal]

Hi Aura,

Have you tried the i38 desktop?

The trouble with orca is that it is dependent on atspi. What version of
atspi do you have?

What distribution of linux are you running?
Pranav

-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Aura Kelloniemi
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5:25 PM
To: brltty at brltty.app
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

Hi,

On 2025-04-01 at 17:09 +0530, "Pranav Lal" <pranav at techesoterica.com> wrote:
 > First, please get up to speed on the GUI. It is a fact of life and it
does  > work in Linux. A lot of work is happening on the GUI side of things.
Orca is  > a capable screen reader and it does support braille via brltty. 

I use Orca everyday to access Firefox. I use the awesome window manager.

My experience is that Orca's terminal support (for braille) is painfully
slow and Orca's word wrapping repeats the word that gets split at the
braille window edge. Also Orca freezes for me daily and causes weird
scrolling issues in Firefox for sighted users.

BRLTTY's capability to render terminal contents as braille is significantly
better than Orca's.

Also Orca does not work well on Wayland. With my window manager Orca does
not speak anything. xbrlapi says "root window" while the menu of my window
manager is open, which is much more information than what Orca gives me.
Orca, as a Python application, is too slow to run on most mobile devices,
and Orca does not support phosh (the Phone Shell).

Running a full-fledged Desktop environment on my machine is not possible due
to low resources. Also, I don't want to run anything which is not very
customizable and lightweight.

I just share my experience, because it explains my standpoint, even though
the above is not necessarily relevant for the topic of my original message.

--
Aura
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