XFCE screen reader

[Christian Dywan]

Am Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:09:50 +0100
schrieb "Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc at gmail.com>:

> 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.

I have no particular experience with screen readers, but technically
libraries that a program links to are usually loaded. And I suspect if
Orca links to Gnome, it certainly uses at least one single function
that resides in a Gnome library?

Regards,
    Christian