question about what speakup can read

[Steve Holmes]

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I don't know if Ubuntu has a speakup enabled kernel or not but I know
Fedora and Debian surely have kernels available that work with speakup
and they both include gnome natively.  Slackware has speakup kernel
but gnome does not come with it.  So with that brief enalysis, I would
say that Debian or Fedora are your best bets.  For Fedora, go to
http://www.speakupmodified.org
and for Debian, go to
http://www.debian.org and follow links to download and instrudctions;
they use a distributed method - something like bittorrent to
distribute images.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 03:30:56PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Speakup is only for the text console, it will not read any of the GUI
> systems like gnome (the git version of speakup automatically disables
> speakup in those consoles not in text mode). For gnome use orca. There
> are different screen readers for both the text console and gnome, but I
> feel speakup and orca are the best. Both orca and speakup can exist
> happily on the same system, I have that set up here and other distros
> certainly have shipped like that in the past (ubuntu being the example I
> am thinking of).
> 
> Michael whapples
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:01 +0000, alex wallis wrote:
> > hi list.
> > I was just wondering if someone could tell me,
> > is speakup only capable of working in a command line environment? or can it read a gui interface?
> > also, as obviously different screen readers can do different things, would it be possible to have a distro that included both speakup and orca?
> > i'm thinking for example if the main part of the distro had a gnome gui, but you needed to use the command line for some tools it included.
> 
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