gnome

[Farhan]

Ah i see what your saying. what if i don't have a hardware synth?  wht 
linux distro is good enough? suse? mandrake? redhat?
At 08:38 AM 6/2/2004, you wrote:
>I understand. However, the point remains that all the graphical screen 
>readers are still developmental. They don't really work yet, to put it in 
>simple words. There are two, however, gnopernicus and orca. Still, you'd 
>best be quite expert at Linux to start mucking around with them. That's 
>part of what I mean by "not ready."
>
>On the other hand, Speakup isn't all command line. Programs like Mutt, 
>Pine, and the Lynx and Links web browsers are not command line, strictly 
>speaking. They present interfaces on screen, and they provide builtin help 
>mechanisms. You should still consider Speakup even if you don't consider 
>yourself good with command lines.
>
>The truth of the matter is that you're still going to need Speakup some of 
>the time even when the day comes that you can perfectly well use 
>Gnopernicus all day long. Why? Because Gnopernicus won't speak until 
>absolutely everything is loaded and running. Speakup, on the other hand, 
>speaks from the very beginning of the process. So, if there's something 
>amis and you need to ask for help--that's where you're going to get the 
>information that people who want to help you are going to need in order to 
>help you.
>
>Or, look at this this way. Let's say it's now the year 2012 and you're 
>using Gnopernicus with Open Office and Mozilla all day long. But, you 
>can't get on the Internet--and you don't know why. All of a sudden it just 
>stopped working.
>
>The fix could be a very simple fix, but you can't easily debug the 
>situation with GUI tools. Perhaps you can use the GNOME Terminal. But, the 
>GNOME Terminal is a command line inside the GUI. So, why not have the 
>Caddilac of command line accessibility at hand?
>
>No, there's no day in the future when Speakup goes away. We're always 
>going to need it.
>
>Farhan writes:
> > Um what if your not good with command lines. i is there anyway for a 
> gui to
> > be inplamented
> > at 07:45 AM 6/2/2004, you wrote:
> > >Gnopernicus isn't ready for prime time. If you like fussing with
> > >development technology you can certainly play with Gnopernicus whichever
> > >distro you install. But, if you're looking for a Linux screen reader, 
> best
> > >stick with the tried, true and reliable Speakup.
> > >
> > >
> > >Farhan writes:
> > >> Hello all i was wondering what linux distro is the best for a newbie at
> > >> this thing. my sighted friend has mandrake and i hurd there is a
> > >> screenreader for gnome called  Gnopernicus what distro do i need to make
> > >> this run and such.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Farhan
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>                                 Technology Research and Development
>                                 Governmental Relations Group
>                                 American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
>                 Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
>         Free Standards Group (FSG)
>
>Email: janina at afb.net           Phone: (202) 408-8175
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Farhan
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