[ubuntu-uk] Users - disabled or learning difficulty

[Ian Pascoe]

Just for those of you who are interested, here's a copy of my reply to Alan
on the Accessability list.

Alan, apologies just realised I replied direct to you and not through the
list!

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Hi Alan

Sorry to jump lists on this one.

The majority of the Accessability stuff you will find under the standard
Ubuntu desktop ie the GNOME desktop.

Within that you have

* sticky keys
* on screen keyboards for use with head pointers etc
* screen readers
* braille support for braille dot matrix writers
* screen magnification

There is currently NO support at all for Speech to Text like DragonSpeak in
MS.

Unfortunately, the support for all of these depends on the original projects
having used an appropriate library that interfaces with the Assistive
Technologies interfaces.  At present this is really limited to Open Office,
Evolution and GAME.

Firefox should be accessable when FF 3 is launched which hopefully will be
packaged into Gutsy.
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Cheers

E

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of alan c
Sent: 24 July 2007 20:48
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Users - disabled or learning difficulty


Lucy wrote:
> On 24/07/07, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
>> I have made contact with a local charity who are soon to create a
>> facility of a few PCs for use by their clients.
>>
>> I am not aware of a Ubuntu related group which has such an interest -
>> comments would be welcomed.
>>
>
> It depends on the requirements of your users (specific disabilities,
> etc). You might want to try the mailing list for the Ubuntu For All
> umbrella group:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuForAll
>
> Or more specifically, the Accessibility group:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility

Thanks - I will join a list
--
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391

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