On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:05:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Seeker5528 wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:27:22 -0500 Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> > >wrote: > > > >Test driving may be a problem since you would need a braille display, > >but there is brltty http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/ and a Debian based > >mini distrobution built around braille and speech > >http://www.brlspeak.net/ that may be something to look at. > > > Thanks for the links. These will make for good research. > > >Also current versions of Gnome and KDE both have accessibility > >features available screen readers, magnifiers, etc... > > > Strangely I don't use either one of these, but I think I can add one in > for a few days. I guess WindowMaker needs some features added. > > >Emacspeak always sounded interesting to me, but I never got around to > >checking it out. > > > Same here. > > Thanks! This is some good ideas on what to shoot for next. Hi Tom, I use festival with mutt to pipe my email to the speakers so I can hear it (just my lazyness, but if I couln't read it or had difficulty, itd help). Also, on Gnome, I use the 'high contrast' theme, as some folks have color blindness (not me though). There is also a 'visual bell' option for most WM's (flashes the screen). Knoppix has options for using brltty's. There is also the 'keyboard' mouse options. there are a few onscreen keyboards - gok for gnome. I used it once when I had a keyboard problem in X. Maybe checkout the debian mailing list for accessibility! HTH -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"...
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