linux and accessibility applications

[Deedra Waters]

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The gui is a very very hard issue to solve. The problem with the gui right
now is that while gnopernicus is a good idea, it has a real real real long
way to go. I don't concidder it useable at all right now.

Gentoo's main goal though with the accessibility project is to eventually
have a gui config that works best to the disabled users needs, but untill
gnopernicus is in a useable state, that is very very dificult to do.


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Alex Snow wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:16:45 -0500
> From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications
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> well there's jupiter and yasr. don't know anything about jupiter but
> yasr is pretty good. used it once.
> 
> I'd like to see speakup in a distro, integrated seamlessly like in
> slackware. I'd also like to see the gui accessibility components
> preconfigured as best as possible so as to get a new user up and
> running quickly if the gui is what they want to use.
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004
> at 04:15:42PM -0600, Deedra Waters wrote:
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm looking for some feedback, and basically what I want to know is this.
> > What accessibility applications are out there for linux besides
> > gnopernicus, speakup,  emacspeak, brltty and the speechd thing?
> >
> > The other thing I should ask I think, is, what accessibility software
> > would people like to see in a distro? (meaning software that's already
> > written)
> >
> > I'm project lead for the gentoo accessibility project
> > 'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility', and what I'd like
> > to do is get a list together of packages we don't have for accessibility,
> > and work on getting those available for our users. Currently we have most
> > of the gnome-accessibility packages, speakup in some of the kernel
> > sources, brltty, (which is currently in testing) festival, and speechd.
> >
> > Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Deedra
> >
> >
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