On Thursday 26 March 2009 13:50:21 Oisin Feeley wrote: > On 3/26/09, Charles Ross <rossce_tech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Has anyone worked with visually impaired individuals and adaptive > > solutions with Fedora? I want to learn this and am near total blindness > > not sure what all is out there in making this OS acessable or how and if > > the windows bassed software will work within this enviroment. Any > > insite, ideas or assistance would be most helpful. > > I haven't but I've wondered idly about this area for a while and have > some bookmarks which I hope will be useful to you. > > There used to be a fair number of interesting posts from a "William F. > Acker" on speakup and other related technologies. See e.g. this link > from mid-2008 > > http://markmail.org/message/e3ge6326si5ddurr > > Similarly Janina Sajka seems to be involved in accessibility issues > and was involved with Colin Walters in a thread about how to fix GConf > settings so that the interaction between Speakup, orca, GDM and > PulseAudio is managed properly. It sounds like she might be worth > getting in touch with: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01240.h >tml > > A much earlier (Fedora 7) post was reported by Rahul Sundaram in > Fedora Weekly News: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue102#A_view_of_Linux_as_introduced_by >_a_blind_user_via_Orca > > Some (unused) accessibility notes from the Fedora 7 era may or may not > be of use: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Accessibility > KDE offers KTTS, K-text-to-speech, which is used by KMouth. I haven't used it, so can't comment on it, but http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ says * Speak any text from the KDE clipboard. * Speak any plain text file. * Speak all or any portion of a text file from Kate, including instances where Kate is embedded in another KDE application. * Speak all or any portion of an HTML page from Konqueror. * Use as the speech backend for KMouth and KSayIt. * Speak KDE notifications (KNotify). * Long text is parsed into sentences. User may backup by sentence or paragraph, replay, pause, and stop playing. * Audio output via aRts, GStreamer (version 0.8.7 or later), or aKode. * User-configurable filters for substituting misspoken words, choosing speech synthesizers, and transforming XHMTL/XML documents. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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