Accessibility of netbooks

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

I have both a 4Gb eeePC and the 160Gb Acer.  Neither would be accessible
by tinkering with the OS that was shipped with the machines originally.
I've installed debian on them but as you are already aware some fiddling
is required to get the hardware working.  I've just been reading about
what Ubuntu are doing in respect of netbooks.  But whether they've
stripped accessibility out or not I do not know.

Asus have really started something with the eeePC but other
manufacturers have taken the idea and advanced it.  The Acer is a really
nice machine and it's keyboard is a lot easier to use than the eeePC.

Happy Hacking!

 

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:06 +0100, 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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