[vicsireland] Orca more responsive in word documents than jaws!
- From: "Darragh Ó Héiligh" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:02:12 +0100
Hello all,
Today, I am using Linux as my main operating system in work.
This is a first for me but something I've been waiting for for a
while. Until now, usability just hasn't been good enough to allow me
to access documents, websites and email as fast as I can in Windows.
Thanks to Fedora 7 and the latest bleeding edge builds of Orca and
Firefox, I'm finding that everything is accessible to me that I need
on the average day.
The most important thing though is, this morning, I had to do an
interview. Usually, the applicant comes in and I ask questions in and
around a set list that I keep in a standard enough word document. I
generally have another blank document open for taking a few notes.
However, Jaws 8 in Vista and Office 2007 falls over with this kind of
set up. If I change between the two documents it doesn't recognise
that text is on the page and when I arrow around it just says "Blank"
With word 2003 it's not better. Granted, in xp this slightly better
but still, jaws still has a tendancy of loosing it's grip on word and
reverts to just saying "Blank" when I arrow around the document.
With Orca and the open office writer though I didn't have any of these
problems. It was refreshing to press the down arrow and hear the line
of text spoken right away without any delay.
At one stage, I needed to pull up the persons CV. Again, I alt tabbed
into the evolution email client, did a quick search for the message
and just as fast as I would in Windows, I had the CV on my screen
reading quite happily but with none of the usual delays.
I'm not going to keep ranting on.
All I'll say is if you are even slightly interested in Linux, give it
ago. I don't know if it's really fantastic or it's just that I'm
really sick of jaws 8 and vista but I'm dredding going back to my
normal pc tomorrow.
For anyone interested, the system I am running is:
a HP DV8396EA laptop. all hardware was detected on installation.
Fedora 7
latest version of Orca and firefox.
TTSynth synthesizer that sounds just like Elequents but even more responsive!
Speakup running in the console.
I've installed a few other applications as well for music play back,
ntfs access and a few other generic tools.
The repositories that I needed for these are:
Livna, ATRPMS and FreshRPMS.
Darragh
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