Questions about Orca Packages?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> Just wondering about a few things relating to the Orca packages in 
> both Dapper and Edgy:
>  
> 1.  The package currently in dapper universe is0.2.2.  Orca has come a 
> long way since this release, both in terms of functionality and 
> stability.  is there any chance of getting this package updated to a 
> more current version?
>  
> 2.  Since Orca has now been officially added as part of the Gnome 
> desktop,what needs to happen in order that it be moved from universe 
> to main?  Doing this would be of great benefit in terms of 
> accessibility, as then, a user could install orca simply by typing a 
> single command.

Orca has been approved for main and will indeed be our default screen 
reader. A few formalities remain for getting it on the CD. We will take 
advice from the Orca team as to what is the best version to go with. It 
will be at least as recent as the Gnome 2.16 version, and may even be 
more up to date.

I'm just back from a dev meeting in German where we discussed this and 
other access topics. We are also planning to adopt the upstream patches 
for the at-spi as sudo issue (as long as it doesn't break anything very 
badly).

- Henrik