XFCE screen reader

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Feb 11 08:53:58 CET 2008


josh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am blind and I want to use xfce with xubuntu. Could a screen reader for 
> XFCE be created so blind people can use it? Orca works for gnome, and I'm 
> not sure if at spi and orca could be ported to XFCE or not. But gnome is 
> huge and I want something that is light on memory.

Listen, we've already talked about this.  Have you even tried it?  I 
don't see why Orca won't work on Xfce.  Gtk has a perfectly good at-spi 
implementation, so it should work just fine with Xfce too.  Just try it!

	-brian



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