On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:22:07PM +0630, Ста Деюс wrote:
> I would give you an advice then: stand far from such overhelming
> projects as «KDE» and «GNOME» are -- pick out of a bunch of
> applications your own desktop.

Believe me, I would if I could. However, unless I'm missing something,
this isn't as simple as you suggest:

1. As far as I know, gnome and xfce are the only two GUI environments
which have a screen reader, orca.

2. I heard a few years back that KDE were developing their own AT-SPI
and screen reader. I tried KDE on jessie in a virtual machine when I
was playing with jessie/systemd, but got no speech. So, I assume that
KDE hasn't gotten their act together yet as far as accessibility; at
least not in the version included with jessie.

3. As far as I know, all the other window managers mentioned here are
based on x, and xorg doesn't currently provide a screen reader of its
own, neither do the mentioned managers.

I'd love to do everything in the text console, but some things are
lacking there, such as a useable modern web browser for example. I went over
to the GUI on GNU/linux a number of years ago in the hopes of being to
dump M$ windows, but that's not possible yet, even though enormous
progress has been made with orca during that time. It isn't my intent
to complain here. I just want to explain why going with a lighter
desktop isn't an option for me at the moment as far as I know.

Greg


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