On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Scott Berry wrote: > Hey John how feasible would it be to do a front end to cd record like > cdw. I can't seem to get the darned thing working. easy enough, that could be a complished by a nice shell-script. however cdrecord is well-documented. note that if you have an ide-burner you need the ide-scsi emulation for cdrecord to work > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, > John J. Boyer wrote: > > > Will, > > > > There are already lots of screenreaders fro Linux, and they are all free. > > I'm using brltty myself, since i use braille. Others use Speakup or > > Emacspeak. Fedora may already include some of these, but I don't know > > since I haven't messed with it. I'm using Redhat 8.0. Perhaps what is > > needed is an installation disk that will produce braille and/or speech > > immediately, so that a blind person could carry out the installation. > > There are others on this list with experience in this area. I'm looking > > for an actual programming project. > > > > John > > > > > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 herzog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Well, I am sighted, and I work with blind people to try and get them going > > > on computers. So far it has been all win 98 and JAWS, as there is lots of > > > support;, and I can see enough to detect what the problem is when many > > > trouble screens won't read, or go away. So the sited stuff is useful. I > > > have tried, and use redhat8 myself, but I only know of one blind person who > > > uses Linux, and she has lots of personal help. > > > So I think the big need is for Fedora, the new Linux hoopla, to be working > > > with voices, preferably cheap or free. > > > The Fedora list is nearly 100 messages per day, a snow job, and not yet > > > ready for prime time players. > > > There is where to work! > > > Will > > > At 05:17 AM 2/25/04, you wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > > > > > >I'm blind myself, and I'm hapiest when I have a good programming project. > > > >So I'm looking for suggestions for programs that would really benefit > > > >blind people. I think a text-mode program, possibly using the curses > > > >library, would be most appropriate. I've tested Gnome and Gnopernicus, but > > > >they really aren't ready for normal use by blind persons, at least not for > > > >those who use braille displays. > > > > > > > >On a related subject, I really can't see any inherent advantage to a GUI > > > >unless you can actually SEE the screen. All the usability features can be > > > >implemented in text mode. > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > > >John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer > > > >Computers to Help People, Inc. > > > >http://www.chpi.org > > > >825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > > > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > -- > > John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer > > Computers to Help People, Inc. > > http://www.chpi.org > > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@xxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list