Lubuntu and Accessibility

[Pia]

I believe this can be done with speakup for speaking the console to blind 
people.  I thin you would also have to use espeak and espeakup as the tts 
and the middleware because speech-dispatcher as the middleware is just way 
too much of a resource hog.  I am not sure you are going to get the 
graphical screen reader, orca to be useful on anything but gnome and it is 
really resource intensive.  I am not familiar with apps for those who are 
not blind, but speakup and brltty for speak and braille respectively, 
should work.  I am willing to see what I can do if you let me know where I 
can get the development ISO to test.  The slowest box I have that I can 
bring out of retirement here is a K6 II 300mhz.  Is that too fast, or is 
that OK?

Thanks,

Pia

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Phill Whiteside wrote:

> Hiyas,
> 
> much has happened recently, including lubuntu getting clearance for full
> adoption at 11.10 by Canonical. Whilst I have quietly pushed accessibility
> (well, maybe not so quietly) as a part of lubuntu, we now need a bit of help
> off this team.
> 
> Our specification of the minimal hardware it will run on cannot be broken,
> nor can our commitment to pre i686 processors.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
> 
> From a general chat to our head of development on lubuntu, he is of the
> opinion that if the code is really (and I mean really) tight, that it would
> be possible to include within the very tight constraints that we are
> committed to be able to uphold the inclusion of accessibility and has agreed
> that we should really strive to attain this.
> 
> We are short of devs who can dedicate resources to this task, so I ask that
> any of you who can assist do so. I'd really like to see lubuntu 11.10 come
> out with as much accessibility as is possible on "A Pentium II or Celeron
> system with 128 MiB of RAM is probably a bottom-line configuration that may
> yield slow yet usable system with Lubuntu"
> 
> So, once you've all had your heart attacks and say it cannot be done... the
> ones who go "hmmm, that is actually possible.." Please make your selves
> known.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
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