Well, in a word, "yes," you are mistaken. However, I do expect that the GUI on Linux will become accessible, and I expect to see great strides in the reasonably near future. But, it will take a long time before this environment is really robustly accessible. Zachary Kline writes: > I was under the impression that Gnome was ready, at least that is the > impression I have gotten from listening to things like the review on ACB > Radio's Main Menu in 2003. > Am I mistaken? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "akp" <akp at eznet.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:32 AM > Subject: Word processing in linux > > > >Hi Tylor, > > > >Hmmmm, well there isn't much you can do right now. Star Office > >requires X-Windows, and the Gnome desktop is not ready for prime-time > >yet. You could do worse than to learn Emacs and LaTeX. As for losing > >the formatting, that's part of the territory. I'd write all my stuff > >in emacs, then transfer it to MSWord when I got to school. You could > >do the final formatting there. BTW, formatting has two T's, short > >vowel and word ending in ING. Double T keeps the vowel short! > > > >Ann P. > > > >-- > >Ann K. Parsons > >email: akp at eznet.net > >WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > >"All that is gold does not glitter. > >Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
