Care For A Little Moonshine?
Marcel Oats
moats at orcon.net.nz
Thu Jul 12 14:46:06 EDT 2007
Ooo! thanks!
Looking forward to this one.
Marcel
At 03:57 p.m. 12/07/2007, you wrote:
>The Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution version of Fedora 7, "Moonshine," is
>now available. Once again we invite you to use our images and installation
>guidance to install Fedora 7, also known as "Moonshine," using your hardware
>speech synthesizer and the Speakup screen reader. Downloadable images and
>documentation are available at our Internet address:
>
>http://SpeakupModified.Org
>
>You can also access the Speakup Modified Fedora files using ftp and rsync with
>commands such as:
>
>ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified/fedora/
>rsync -l speakupmodified.org::speakupmodified
>
>Please note that this initial release of the Speakup Modified Fedora 7 has not
>yet been fully tested. We welcome all reports of success or of failures with
>this new, highly revised installation media.
>
>The Speakup Modified Fedora provides:
>
>* installation media adapted expressly for
> those blind computer users who want to use the Speakup Linux screen reader
>to install a Fedora-style Linux on their computers. This means that the blind
>computer user will not require sighted assistance, and that the end
>result will
>be an installation that talks every time it is booted.
>
>* Other assistive technology including brltty, emacspeak,, and orca.
>* It's all there--in the installation images.
>
>* A preliminary revision of our famous Installation HOWTO to guide the
>* novice and the advanced user through the installation process.
>
>* A new mini-howto on using telnet to install the Speakup Modified at:
>
> http://SpeakupModified.Org/telnet_installation.html
>
>But the Speakup Modified is much more than just installation media.
>We now also provide:
>
>* Support for TTSynth, the premier text to speech synthesizer for Linux,
>* both on the console and the graphical desktop.
>
> See http://TTSynth.Com to learn more.
>
>* Regular builds of Firefox 3 providing industry leading accessible
>* web browsing.
>
>* A yum repository so you can update your Speakup Modified Fedora
>* distribution the easy way--overnight in your sleep, for instance. In
>* addition, there's a new Quick Tips file for using yum:
>
> http://SpeakupModified.Org/yumming
>
>* Both 32-bit and 64-bit packages.
>
>* Fast and robust Internet connections on our new hosted servers, so
>* that your downloads can proceed at maximum speed
>
>In the very near future we will also provide:
>
>* A Help Wiki and mini HOWTOs on various Linux topics that you can use both
>to learn from and also to share your own expertise with others.
>
>We know we've said this before--but it's absolutely true yet again!
>rTthe newly
>released Fedora 7 is the most accessible Fedora yet. We're pleased we can once
>again facilitate your installation of Fedora without sighted assistance. And,
>we're pleased to facilitate your access to package updates as well as a first
>class accessible console and graphical desktop Linux experience.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>The Speakup Modified Team
>
>
>--
>
>Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org
>Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
>Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada
>Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com
>
>Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org
>Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
More information about the Speakup
mailing list