linux and accessibility applications

[hank smith]

what could I use with gui?
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From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications


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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.
>
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Alex Snow wrote:
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> > 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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