Re: free software & accessibility
>>>>> Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.]
[…]
>> Our team would probably have joined the deal, but, unfortunately, we
>> don't apparently have anything to offer to the sight impaired at our
>> disposal
> I'd argue that you do, and have. Debian and w3 make it easier for
> developers to build to standards. The community helps developers
> make apps useable. Without those things assistive technology is just
> a cart waiting on a horse.
Well, that's certainly something to offer. However, I doubt
that there would be enough (or even any) developers interested
in that in our locality.
>> (no embossers, no Braille terminals, and I don't even know if the
>> speech synthesizers provided with Debian support Russian.)
> Festival and espeak do - I don't know how well though
ACK. I'd try to check it out.
Any particular examples of software these could be used with?
[You should've kept To: planning-ru@, BTW.]
> (ваша оценка может измениться)
Is that YMMV as translated by Google? Funny enough, but it
reads rather like Your Mileage May Change. (“May vary” would be
“может отличаться” in Russian in this case.)
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