Accessibility of netbooks

[Willem van der Walt]

I have an eee_pc and am running Ubuntu on it.
It comes with Zandrows which  I would not bother to try and get 
accessible.
I am mainly using  speakup, but also have Orca running on it.
As long as the braille display connects through USB I do not see why 
brltty would not work.
Yes, one has to tweak things a bit to work, but it can work.
I am using a normal usb keyboard with my eee as I struggle with its 
built-in keyboard.
HTH, Willem


On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Alastair Irving wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I'm considering purchasing a netbook.  The 2 main ones which run linux seem to
> be  the Asus Eee Pc and the Acer Aspire One.  I was wondering if anyone on
> list has any experience of these.  They both run custom linux distros, so I
> would like to know how possible it is to get accessibility related software to
> run on them, i.e. speakup, brltty, emacspeak and orca.  Obviously I could
> install a different distro but this could lead to more problems regarding
> drivers for the hardware, etc.
> 
> I hope people don't mind me asking about all the accessibility related
> software on this list, it seems to be the most general purpose of the lists
> for the various programs and I wanted to avoid cross-posting to all of them.
> The obvious questions seem to be
> 
> 
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Alastair Irving
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