ArchLinux tutorials, and the state of accessibility in linux

Garrett Klein garrett.gj at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 19:36:40 EST 2012


I haven't been able to get gnome-3.6 to start at all on my Arch install, but 
Debian Wheezy/experimental with gnome-3.4.x "works," if you call gnome-shell 
"working."

Garrett

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Pirika
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 7:30 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: ArchLinux tutorials, and the state of accessibility in linux

Excellent, I'm interested in emacspeak especially. and also gnome. What
tools are needed to get emacspeak working in a software speech environment?

Arthur

On 8/12/2012 08:39, Jason White wrote:
> 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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