State of accessibility in linux

Georgina Joyce gena at genaj.plus.com
Fri May 26 07:00:34 EDT 2006


Hi

Why are you comparing apples with potatoes?

What is you want to achieve? 

Gena
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:52:23PM +1000, 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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