Michael: The gnome accessibility will be just that--gnome. Their focus is applications on the gnome desktop, and that's a very good thing. We'll still have speakup and brltty for the rest of it. Rather a win win scenario, I think. On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Michael wrote: > > > Hello list: > > Isn't Gnopernicus going to make provisions for blind and visually impaired > persons to be able to install and configure a distribution from the ground > up similar to what Speakup does? > Or is it going to be a JFW similarity for the Gnome II desktop, leaving us > back to a windows > 9-X NT situation, where we have to in list once again, the assistance of the > sited, to read our screens up until Gnopernicus can be started? I'm waiting > for the Official release so that I can look at Mandrake as a distribution. > How ever, I'm going to be getting my feet wet with Slackware next week. > In case I don't post a message on the list before Christmas: > every one have a mary Christmas and a prosperous new year. > Michael VO1RYN > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
