Hi All. I feel that the following is required: Improved documentation. The documentation that is out their is for techo people. If you are new to a product, the first thing that some people do, is hit the docs. Some Adaptive technology for Linux has nearly no documentation, while others have average documentation. Some of the docs are very technical in nature and don't assist a new user in linux in using their products. Tutorials or training manuals are really required. I feel that BRLTTY and Speakup should be merged into one product. Braille and Speech should exist together. Look on for more improvements to Speakup. At this point of time, all adaptive technology products have different methods of accessing the hardware that is used by the vision impaired. It would be nice if all programs had a common method of accessing the hardware, like screen readers and braille displays. Then the developers of these products would only need to know one way of accessing these hardware devices. Makes it simpular to diagnose probelms. How this is done, I will leave it up to the experts. Expanding the power of speakup to include: Simular functionality of Vocal-eyes windows. That is, you define a window that monitors an area of the screen. Depending on certain attributes, will determine if the window is spoken, silence, etc. This would give more power to Speakup in using consolue applications. Unique configuration files for full screen console applications. Therefore you could have speech set at different speeds for different application. User Interface that allows people to change settings within Speakup, without the need to change files. Being able to see previous output that has been scrolled off the screen. You use shift+ page up to do this on a linux console. Support for more hardware and software synths. People have mention them already. Xwindow at this point of time is outside my experience because of the limitation of the screen reader. This should be really the main focus of developers. Emacspeak and Speakup are useable and you can do majority of your work with these applications. I have already highlighted the areas that need improvements. But you can work around these limitations.
