A few years ago I was working as a developer for a university website.
One of my jobs was ensuring Section 508 compliance. To this end, I had
downloaded a copy of Orca and used it to try navigating the website and
learned to use better voices through festival and mary tts.
I also was using Simon (from the Simon-listens foundation) as a way of
controlling the computer via voice commands. I have also found the simon
training application helpful in developing specific speech controlled
interfaces. I notice that Simon does not appear to be available in the
standard Buster repositories. It also appears that development on Simon
appears to have stalled in 2015, with the lead developer leaving to work
on Siri, although the latest commit to the master branch on cgit.kde.org
was in February this year, so I would consider it still an active project.
Is anyone using Simon? Is there an alternative available? Can anyone
recommend between Orca and Screader or any other screen reading software
for modern accessibility testing?
Thanks,
Aaron