State of accessibility in linux

[sean murphy]

Scott,

Thanks for your feedback.  I have played with the MAC Voice Over Screen 
reader and is impressive for such a young product.

I must install gnome and play with the products available for XWindow.

You are correct in saying all OS Screen Readers have their own problems...

Sean

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Howell" <s.howell at verizon.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: State of accessibility in linux


> 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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