Re: Mozilla - like JAWS or like Hal?

[Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com>]

Hi all
Again, comments below Peter's remarks.

At 08:01 AM 5/05/2004, Peter Korn wrote:
>  3. Now that we've started a good discussion about what is needed for good
>     blind access to mozilla, perhaps we can start similar discussions about
>     other aspects of the desktop.  Here are some questions to get that
>     started (this further discussion shouldn't be cross-posted to
>     <mozilla-accessibility mozilla org> of course...):
>      a. What is good, and what can be improved, in Gnopernicus access to
>         Nautilus and the actual desktop window itself?

A way to force focus on the desktop, that is if there isn't one that I 
don't know about.

>      b. Same question, but about Gnopernicus and gaim?

Commands to read the last message, or last several messages for a start. 
More later when I have had a chance to play with Gaim.

>      c. Same question, but about Gnopernicus and StarOffice/OpenOffice.org?

Again, need to set up and test. More later.

>      d. What do you think about the Gnopernicus features?  The Gnopernicus
>         NumPad commands and layer concept?  Braille interface?

I don't use braile, but for keyboard commands, there needs to be a desktop 
and laptop set of commands.

>      e. What TTS engine(s) do you use with Gnoperncus?

I currently use DECtalk, and tried to use Cepstral, but until that 
interruption bug is worked out, I can't use that yet.

>      f. What are the most important things you want to use with Gnopernicus
>         but cannot use yet?

Web browsing, and a good word processor.

Luke