ArchLinux tutorials, and the state of accessibility in linux

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Fri Dec 7 17:39:03 EST 2012


Arthur Pirika  <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote:

>Second, what are peoples experience with tools like emacspeak, 
>speech-dispatcher, and gnome/KDE accessibility, things you don't hear a 
>lot about these days? Are they still viable options for access, 
>especially emacspeak?

Emacspeak is better than ever, as is BRLTTY if you have a braille display.

If you're on the right mailing lists, you'll hear a lot about the
accessibility of X11 desktops, especially Gnome, but also the early
development of accessibility for KDE. Other desktop environments, notably
XFCE, have received some attention too. In short, there is work underway in
all of these areas. How useful these environments are depends on what you need
to do with them and on how accessible the particular applications are that you
might want to run in your X session.




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