hanke at volny.cz writes: > > But till then, or till somebody develops some other decent screen > reader (I would especially welcome an effort to develop a user-space > screen reader), I can't recommend using speechd-up unless there is > no other choice. I'm not convinced we need another "user space" screen reader. Between yasr, and Suse's screen reader, plus the accessibility provided by emacs with speechd-el, and especially by emacspeak, I'm just not convinced. On the other hand, abandoning Speakup would be a severe blow to many of us. That would be a step backwards, a serious step backwards. Of course, software speech through Speakup will never provide the level of access available through hardware synths. > > I'd especially like to bring the speechd-el and Emacspeak approach > to your attention as a possible partial solution. You can find out > more about speechd-el on http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-el > and about Emacspeak on http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net . I think this > approach is much better in many cases. On the other side it can't substitute > Speakup in providing speechd during boot/shutdown and when you run > into problematic situations. It also requires more learning from the user. That's not a bad thing, but it must be acknowledged. > > With Regards, > Hynek Hanke > http://www.freebsoft.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
