State of accessibility in linux

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually, are not there more Linux options too?
yassar, and e-lux and one more if I am not mistaken and I may be
voice over is great too, depending on what you want to do.  It like I 
suppose everything  save for DOS does not work with everything, grin.
Karen

On Sat, 27 May 2006, David Poehlman wrote:

> 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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