Accessability in Edubuntu

[Jim Kronebusch]

> The other name for thin 
> client is dumb terminal.  That means you get a keyboard; a screen, a 
> network connection, and nothing else.  No memory; no hard drive, no 
> floppies no speakers, no connection for refreshable braille display, and 
> no way to do screen magnification without additional hardware.

Not exactly.  You need memory, you can have a floppy drive, you can have speakers. 
There is no need for a physical hard drive because everything lives in RAM.  If you need
extra swap space nbd is available.  Thin Clients aren't exactly "dumb terminals", they
have become much smarter.  I have not worked with braille displays or screen
magnification so I cannot speak to that.

> I know 
> about this stuff because a system that will be expanding in the coming 
> years uses citrix 

Luckily Linux thin clients aren't Citrix :-)


For what it is worth, I have been playing with getting text to speech to work in our
thin client environment with no luck (Edubuntu Feisty).  So I tried to enable it on my
stand alone Gutsy Desktop, still no luck (Edubuntu Gutsy).  However I cannot be certain
that I am trying to set this up correctly.  There doesn't seem to be any step by step
documentation for this.  I have read the manuals but they seem vague.  I simply want to
be able to take and Edubuntu Desktop and enable text to speech for OpenOffice and
Firefox mainly.

I guess I did have it working temporarily in Gutsy, but they my machine slowed down and
started freezing.  So maybe there are still some bugs that need working out.  I haven't
had the time to trouble shoot any further.

Jim

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