hank smith wrote:
hello I am wanting to switch to linux but need access to some windows aps. was wondering if any one has gotten jaws, or window eyes to work under linux using either virtual machine's, or wine? if so whitch one, and what screen reader, and what was performance like? my spects on this machine are p4 2.4 ghz, 512 meg ram 20 gb hd thanks hank ---------------------------------------- My Inbox is protected by SPAMfighter 1154 spam mails have been blocked so far. Download free www.spamfighter.com today!
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If you were to do an "everything" install of the latest version of Red Hat's Linux (Fedora Core 2) you'd have Gnopernicus installed. Within Gnopernicus you'll have a screen reader and screen magnifier. I have used both and found them somewhat clumsy and difficult to use. Being a sighted user, I think that I had a better experience that a non-sighted user, but maybe not. I have also used Window-Eyes and Jaws and found both of them very difficult to use and quite a painful experience. So, this might give you an idea of what to expect from Gnopernicus.
I am currently working on a command-line-based custom Linux distribution with full speech based on LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/whatislfs.html) and will post more on this as the project moves along. Hopefully it will be easy to use.
I'd like to find a way go get audio from GRUB or LILO to aid in a dual boot environment. If there any suggestions, I'm all ears.
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