State of accessibility in linux

[Scott Howell]

For Gnome there's Gnopernicus which at least as of the last time I  
tried it, it worked, but wasn't very efficient. I had real hopes that  
would be the case, but if your looking for a comparison between the  
gui-based Linux solutions and the Mac, the Mac would win hands down.  
I say this because so far KDE isn't accessible to my knowledge,  
Gnopernicus despite being a solution and a good one isn't really  
ready for daily use based on my experience, and I am sure this will  
improve with time. On the other hand, the Mac with VoiceOver is what  
I use daily and for a large number of tasks and its very good. Is it  
perfect? No, but then what adaptive solution is. They all have their  
issues, but you simply have to choose what works best for you. Now if  
your talking about access from the console, well Speakup will win  
everytime because there is truly an accessible solution if there ever  
was one. Speakup reigns supreme from the console providing more  
access than any other adaptive solution both gui or console-based.
Now these are just my opinions and if you disagree, that's fine, I'm  
not looking to turn this into a pissing contest, just merely making  
some observations based on my experience.


Scott



On May 25, 2006, at 6:52 AM, sean murphy wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> The accessibility to Linux varies depending on which application  
> you are
> using.  I know of four applications for the shell environment.
>
> Speakup
> Emacs speak (its own desktop environment)
> BRLTTY (only used with braille displays)
> IBM (They have a screen reader which I know very little about)
>
> There is a XWindows screen reader, but I don't know much about it  
> and how
> good it is.  If anyone on the list could add some info to this, I  
> would be
> welcomed.  I would like to know how it compares to Windows or MAC.
>
> Sean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Wagner" <wagner.andrew at gmail.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:40 AM
> Subject: State of accessibility in Linux
>
>
>> Hi all.
>> I'm pretty new to this list. What is the state of accessibility  
>> for linux
>> users? I read somewhere that there was at one time a goal of having a
>> screen
>> reader that functioned from boot up to shut down. Is that the case  
>> now? Is
>> there a linux distribution where the installation is local and  
>> accessible?
>> What projects need to be done? I have a goal to find/create a linux
>> distribution to get my (blind) girlfriend off her dependency on  
>> Microsoft.
>> One of these days...
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