Re: linux for blinds
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@gnome-db.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On 30 Oct 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Sébastien FRANCOIS wrote:
>>
>> > You might remember me, I had asked a few months ago concerning the
>> > projects that existed for blinds.
>> > I've set up a new system based on a debian with several modes:
>> >
>> > ...
>> >
>> > This way we could have on the same cd, the possibility to give blinds a
>> > first try of linux, and also a 'true' debian installation.
>> > Our installation is currently translated into 17 languages.
>> >
>> > Let me know what you think about it,
>> The idea to make a system for blinds is great and I can only enforce
>> you to do it.
>>
>> But you are going the wrong way!
>>
>> Just have a deep look at Debian internal projects!
>> I think a good reference is my talk about it at LinuxDays Luxembourg:
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/talks/200210_lux_internal/
>>
>> In my opinion you will avoid doubling of work if you would join our
>> internal projects effort. Feel free to ask if something remains unclear
>> in this field. (Please be patient because I will be offline until
>> 4. November.)
>>
> you might also want to look (if you haven't done yet) at the
> accessibility support in GNOME (ATK).
As far as I can see, libatk is already packaged.
> One of the developers is blind and I saw him, in last GUADEC, give a
> talk about the accessibility support, and it was really fantastic to
> see him use emacs, gnome-terminal, etc, just as any other user.
> Also, the accessibility support in GNOME has received some awards
> about it being the most advanced accessibility toolkit available,
> better even than the one present in Windows and MacOS.
See http://bugs.debian.org/160783
i.e., what we are lacking is at packaged screen reader for GNOME2.
> The page of the project is at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
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