special needs
Luke Yelavich
themuso at themuso.com
Tue May 10 03:03:41 UTC 2005
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 9:51:00AM EST, Scott wrote:
>Hello there list,
>
>My name is Scott and I found out about this distribution of Linux
>yesterday while reading a newsgroup. I have a couple of questions
>however, first of all I am totally blind and need access to the
>screen. Have you looked at implementing Speakup a screen reading program
>which can be found at http://www.linux-speakup.org. To get the tar ball
>you may go to ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca and find it there. Secondly, would
>you be able to include Brltty for those of us who do not have a serial
>port because once we install Brltty we could then begin to use Brltty
>right away. You may find Brltty at http://dave.mielke.cc. I really think
>this would be great. Secondly, could there be a question in your
>installation which says something like: Do you need to use Braille and
>speech devices? (Please remember that speech and braille devices installed
>only work under the text console, however, you may find Gnopernicus once
>you have installed the system.) I think this would make things much
>better as for disabilities.
Hi Scott
I am currently working on accessibility for Ubuntu. There is nothing for
Hoary, which is the latest release, but I am working on creating a
derivative on the side, if not for Hoary, then for the next release,
code named Breezy, which in itself may have some accessibility
integrated.
I am a speakup user, and also know of BrlTTY, and I plan to implement
both packages soon.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any more questions or wish to
find out more.
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