Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

[Steve Holmes <steve@holmesgrown.com>]

I might add to Hans' comments here that if this student of yours is 
low-vision, he might wanna take a look at Orca, a screen reader which is 
integrated in with GNOME.  It has magnifier support.  I personally have 
never used it but know it's there.  Speakup which offers speech output 
from the kernel works at the console level but does not have any 
low-vision or magnafication support.

HTH.

On 03/06/2011 04:57 PM, der.hans wrote:
> Am 06. Mar, 2011 schwätzte owens@netptc.net so:
>
> moin moin,
>
> we recently had a presentation on GNU/Linux Accessibility for the Blind
> for PLUG.
>
> The demonstrations of EmacSpeak, Speakup and Orca were great for those of
> us with no experience. Speakup is now in the main kernel, so easier to
> access.
>
> http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/222
>
> Steve will be repeating his presentation at ABLEconf in about a month if
> Phoenix is convenient for you.
>
> You might suggest to your student to join the blinux-list.
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/~blinux/
>
> BTW, I'm top-posting because I'm told that's much easier for the blind.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > List
> >
> > I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local
> > University. One of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind
> > but he requires a powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of
> > a telescope to see the overhead projection of my course slides. He has
> > expressed interest in Linux but, quite understandably, would require
> > some software assistance to view documents and circuit schematics,
> > potentially enlarging them at specific areas. I run Debian Lenny on my
> > home system and Dual Boot with Ubuntu on my University laptop. Can
> > anyone point to some specific software that I might have him try. TIA
> >
> > Larry