new users - Australia

[Larry North]

G'day,

I'm not blind and have done a quick search of the resources.

Two which should be useful are 


VIBUNTU - UBUNTU LINUX FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED

http://www.ascience-thematic.net/en/news/Vibuntu

This is from the RNIB in the UK.

The second one is Vinux, which I believe you have

Vinux - A talking linux distro for blind and visually impaired users

http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/1016-vinux-a-talking-linux-distro-for-blin
d-and-visually-impaired-users


A discussion about  Vinux can be found at 

http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu-user/404252-ubuntu-visually-impaired.htm
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I'll also suggest having a look and listen to a podcast 

Going Linux :

http://goinglinux.com/shownotes.html

they have talked about this in a recent episode.

Hope these are of use.

Larry North

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Rob
Whyte
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:50 AM
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: new users - Australia

Hi,
 From the forrum thread about this list it suggested new list members 
introduce themselves.
So here I am,
I am a 33 year old single parent of two small children.
I am legally blind with some very limitted sight.
Not enough how ever to read text on screen or see an mouse pointer.
Though I see boxes popup and different blended colours I do rely on 
speakup and gnome-orca.

I have been using bsd/nix for about 8 years in a very small capacity i.e 
servers httpd ircd ftpd etc.

I now use Ubuntu via Vinux and have done for two years.

It was suggested to subscribe here as I am very interested in bleeding 
edge technology and usually my interest outweight my abilities :)

I look forward to trying to assist the list and watching how it works, 
how tasks are assigned and hope to be able to contribute in the future.

Kind regards
Rob Whyte

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