Re: [orca-list] was able to install fedora 17

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> Not really meaning to this this off topic, but what is this OCR plugin?

My guess: it captures the video buffer and runs OCR (optical character
recognition) on it, then presents the output.

Orca can't do this - it doesn't have access to the low-level video. On the
other hand, when the operating system and applications are free
software/open-source, it's easier to fix the accessibility at the application
level than to resort to low-level work-arounds such as off-screen models and
OCR.