XFCE screen reader

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 09:09:50 CET 2008


Hello Josh,

On 2/11/08, josh <jkenn337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Installing orca would mean installing certain Gnome dependencies.
However, they will simply reside on your hard disk. When using orca
with Xfce, you will not notice any of the Gnome foot-print on the
system Memory.

Hope this is of help,
Liviu



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