State of accessibility in linux

John covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Fri May 26 16:31:51 EDT 2006


About all speakup needs is -- a find and dictionary and caps alert
while reading the screen would be nice.

on Friday 05/26/2006 Scott Howell(s.howell at verizon.net) wrote
 > That depends on what you mean. I don't think Speakup needs much more  
 > if really anything. If your looking at accessibility to the console  
 > and console-based apps, you'll find Speakup to be more than a viable  
 > solution. If you are referring to access to the gui, then Speakup  
 > isn't the tool. Not that it isn't possible, it wasn't written to be a  
 > Gnome or KDE access solution.
 > Accessibility is a matter of what your trying to accomplish and then  
 > finding the tools to do the job.
 > 
 > 
 > Scott
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > On May 26, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Andrew Wagner wrote:
 > 
 > > So, any other thoughts on what especially needs done, to make  
 > > speakup a
 > > viable solution for more users who need accessibility? Thanks. Andrew
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