Hi, Charlie, I am sure there are others on the list better qualified to answer specific questions about x-windows. I know a number of popular applications - WordPerfect being perhaps he most notable, have been ported to x-windows. I recall as far back as 1989 or so, there had been attempts to make the system accessible for blind users. I recall a presentation at a national convention where they were using a system of speakers to simulate virtual rooms as a means of accessing the directory structure. I believe it was not till the advent of Linux that x-windows has been coming into its own as an alternative graphical user interface. Some of the models used to develop windows screen readers were first developed for x-windows, though, long before Linux. As you know, although I have been using computers since I bought the Texas Instruments home computer (I think it was called the TI-99-4 something), which came with a speech synthesizer and Basic - back in the early 1980s - I am not a techy. I like a lot of the windows features, I like the old DOS command driven interface, and I like to dabble with Linux. One day the computer will be as easy to use as the telephone; let's try to make sure that when that day arrives the blind are not left out. David -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Charles Crawford" <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Needs educating: Message from Linux (fwd) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:25:08 -0800 Size: 1734 URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20020121/ad142cc0/attachment.mht>
