I was looking forward to seeing what the new version of Ubuntu had in store, was told about all the improvements.
So I installed the new verion on my laptop.
I wanted to see how Orca had improved, since I currently use the Compiz magnifier as its the only reliable system.
Sadly on firing up Orca, I was reminded just how flaky and unstable this application was.
All I want it for is the magnification, so I turn off the speech and turn on the magnification, to be greeted by a grey screen and the system freezing. Great, so restart and try again, this time I get a little further, but its uncontrollable. I fiddle with a few display features to get it working, all looked promising, so I did a bit of browsing, just looking at google, it was jumping all over the place, when I move the mouse, it fires off somewhere else.
I go to turn it off, but when I click on the menu, 'accessories', etc, non of the options would show, I had to resort to googling for keyboard short-cuts to turn the dam thing off.
So clearly still more work to be done on this application, will it ever be a stable application? my view is that its still Alpha, it shouldn't be included with a Final version of Ubuntu, just lets the system down.
Such a shame, after so much promise.
but that's accessibility for you, guess its either Mac OS or WinDowze 7 as Linux has nothing to offer
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