Needs educating: Message from Linux (fwd)

[randy turner]

hi,

is there an elist where they are
talking about all of this?
thanks in advance
randy

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> I take it you don't know much bout the Gnome 2.0 project. Well, here is a
> more in depth look at Gnome 2. Which is part of the x-windows system.
>
> 1. Gnome 2 is being majorly over halled with speech accessible widgits,
> screen reader hooks, and other fixes to make it accessible.
> 2. synth driver support is being added to support synths for Linux. This
> project is called Gnome-speech.
> 3. the gtk+ language is being modified so that from now on all applications
> using the standard gtk+ 2 will come out of the box accessible with
> Gnopernicus and other x screen readers like it.
>
> So steps are being taken to make X accessible, but it merely takes time.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Arocho <darocho at earthlink.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:08 PM
> Subject: RE: Needs educating: Message from Linux (fwd)
>
>
> > The real question is access.  Neither JAWS nor WINDOW EYES can give full
> > access to the Windows operating system.  If you get away from the small
> > number of familiar Microsoft applications, you find that you have to limp
> > along.  This will be so until speech and Braille and large print access
> are
> > built right into the operating system.  Linux is the only operating system
> > that has a prayer of getting such access built in.  However, until
> > X-windows is made accessible, Linux will remain a solution for only a few.
> > If it is not done soon, though, and X-windows gets to challenge Microsoft
> > for its dominance, blind people will again be left out in the cold.  The
> > fact is tat, unless some of us get behind it and push and make our own way
> > to get X-windows accessible, it is not going to get done.  If any of you
> > are interested in working aggressively toward that end, let me hear from
> > you privately.  Lists are great for getting people in touch, but they all
> > tend to go in the direction of griping sessions a la talk radio.  Let's
> > start doing, as talk is very cheap and time is not on our side.
> >
> > David Arocho
> >
> >
>
>
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