linux and accessibility applications

[Janina Sajka]

Wouldn't it be better to have a GUI configuring application that runs in the console? We know console environments are stable and reliable, and we know the GUI environment has a long way to go. So, if the config tool is a GUI tool, and your accessibility GUI becomes inaccessible, aren't you up the proverbial creek without that proverbial paddle?

I have been saying this to the Sun and GNOME people for two years. I will again carry this message at CSUN this week. Unfortunately, it often seems as if they don't want to acknowledge there's anything good about consoles. Very myopic, imho.

Deedra Waters writes:
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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.
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> 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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> > --
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> > back.
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175