hi, is there an elist where they are talking about all of this? thanks in advance randy On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > I take it you don't know much bout the Gnome 2.0 project. Well, here is a > more in depth look at Gnome 2. Which is part of the x-windows system. > > 1. Gnome 2 is being majorly over halled with speech accessible widgits, > screen reader hooks, and other fixes to make it accessible. > 2. synth driver support is being added to support synths for Linux. This > project is called Gnome-speech. > 3. the gtk+ language is being modified so that from now on all applications > using the standard gtk+ 2 will come out of the box accessible with > Gnopernicus and other x screen readers like it. > > So steps are being taken to make X accessible, but it merely takes time. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Arocho <darocho at earthlink.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:08 PM > Subject: RE: Needs educating: Message from Linux (fwd) > > > > The real question is access. Neither JAWS nor WINDOW EYES can give full > > access to the Windows operating system. If you get away from the small > > number of familiar Microsoft applications, you find that you have to limp > > along. This will be so until speech and Braille and large print access > are > > built right into the operating system. Linux is the only operating system > > that has a prayer of getting such access built in. However, until > > X-windows is made accessible, Linux will remain a solution for only a few. > > If it is not done soon, though, and X-windows gets to challenge Microsoft > > for its dominance, blind people will again be left out in the cold. The > > fact is tat, unless some of us get behind it and push and make our own way > > to get X-windows accessible, it is not going to get done. If any of you > > are interested in working aggressively toward that end, let me hear from > > you privately. Lists are great for getting people in touch, but they all > > tend to go in the direction of griping sessions a la talk radio. Let's > > start doing, as talk is very cheap and time is not on our side. > > > > David Arocho > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
