Ok, thanks for this. I'm fascinated by the real dedicated screen readers (and these tend to be the more efficient solution), but I was first intrigued just how useful or useable the in-built features were so that it could offer some access right out of the box so to speak. I was on someone else's XP machine only yesterday and only then wished I'd known more about Narrator so I had a modicum of feedback as the owner was not so hot at it. They learn more having to do it, but they struggle to keep up and find it stressful, so their attention span is thus reduced. RobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "krishnakant Mane" <krmane@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:17 AM Subject: Re: Mandriva 2008 and accessibility? not tried though. but I am sure you can at least build orca and use it with espeak. if you are not aware of orca then please mail back. I use orca on a ubuntu 7.10 distro and I know it works with fedora too. now firstly do you want to stay with command line or gui is to be understood. in the command line, emacs and emacspeak is like an entire world. and if you want to use the gnome desktop which I do personally as well, you can use orca which is a very feature rich and easy to use powerful screen reader, which is some what even better than jaws or any other screen reader on the windows platform. regards, Krishnakant. On 01/01/2008, Rob Harris <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anyone using the talking accessibility features of Mandriva 2008? Mrs has > it installed here and she mentioned it has some such functions, in the vane > of Narrator in XP/2k I think, but open to anything anyone can tell about it. > I've not upgraded since SW9 cli and Speakup on an old P3. > > Tia, RobH. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list