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People who use the #accessibility stack on Linux, do you use anything other than Orca?

I'm trying to map out unused code paths in at-spi2-core, and so far I'm considering orca/dogtail, but I'm sure I'm missing something.

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Federico Mena Quintero

@bipolaron Woah, I have no idea about voice control via atspi. I've boosted your post for reach.

Anyway - I'm cleaning up the accessibility stack in Linux, which suffers from a lot of context loss since the Oracle laid off the accessibility team in 2011. There's a summary at viruta.org/paying-technical-de…

What is this acorn that you mention?

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

I'm using Orca too, but I plan to test Odilia. It's a really young screen reader. odilia.app/ @federicomena
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@andyholmes @bipolaron @gcampax Hehe, the link to flathub on the Stanford page is wrong; it should be flathub.org/apps/details/edu.s…
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@matt ah, yeah, thanks for reminding me - it's at gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dasher

I don't know how well-maintained it is; the last commits to the code are from a year ago...