State of accessibility in linux

[David Poehlman]

I like voice over with shell.

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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