Re: [orca-list] Important: Web accessibility survey for screen reader users

[kk <krmane gmail com>]

Hi all.
orca is indeed being used in India extensively, specially in the south.
And I think this is deliberate social engineering by some exploitative proprietary mafia which wants people to have another reason not to use a free OS.
Given that NVDA gets a mention at all the places, it being open source, then why not Orca?
The reason is very simple, you still need proprietary OS and other proprietary software with NVDA right?
But Linux is free as in freedom and to a great extent as in free of cost.
So they want to defeate the very social purpose.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Monday 27 July 2015 01:03 PM, Trenton Matthews wrote:

hmmm.

Fewer usrs? Nah.

Small community, definitely.

As for it not being on the survey, (which i think is closed now,) I wonder the reason why Orca isn't on the list, is because it doesn't get enough press.

Same with Supernova and Cobra on Windows for that matter...

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:09 AM, _mallory <stommepoes stommepoes nl> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 09:17:52AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> I wanted to pass this link along to you guys so the Orca community is more represented in these things so, I’m terribly sorry about the cross posting.  This is a survey conducted by Webaim to find out how accessible screen reader users think the internet is.  What bugs me is that they mention nearly all screen readers except for Orca.  Last time I mentioned it to them, they said it was because they didn’t think anyone used it much so, they didn’t include it.  Chromevox was there though which I would argue has fewer users than Orca does.

> http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey6/

Jared even made a snarky comment about Orca users:
https://twitter.com/jared_w_smith/status/618529195761668096

It would be nice to know if Orca is more heavily represented in
countries like India and Brazil, because I'm pretty sure the
WebAIM surveys are very Western-biased, where having a Windows
machine is often an automatic default.

_mallory
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