On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:12 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > Hi, > > does anybody have some information how Fedora and linux distros in > > general are for usable for blind people? > > I heard that speech recognition isn't really working on linux but what > > is the state of screen readers/speech synthesis ? > > How about braile printers and braile keyboards - how do they work on > > fedora and linux in general? > > Has anybody heard or some great story how linux is used by blind > > people? Can you please share links and any info that you have. > > > > My niece is 80% blind and she uses some really expensive software (on > > windows) and hardware so that she can use the PC and at my former > > university they are starting a class for educating blind people to use > > PC-s but with windows and some additional expensive software for blind > > people. I would like to make a project so that they use fedora as a > > desktop instead if it is possible. > > The Orca screen reader for the GNOME desktop is almost as good as > proprietary ones, and closing the gap fast. Many of those involved in > its development have a disability themselves, so it is tightly focused > on what users need. > > You might be interested in this story: > > > http://www.linux.com/feature/130942 > > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 > Burnaby, BC, Canada > web: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield > blog: http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/ Thank you Bruce, this is a great article! Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
