Hi Why are you comparing apples with potatoes? What is you want to achieve? Gena On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:52:23PM +1000, sean murphy wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > The accessibility to Linux varies depending on which application you are > using. I know of four applications for the shell environment. > > Speakup > Emacs speak (its own desktop environment) > BRLTTY (only used with braille displays) > IBM (They have a screen reader which I know very little about) > > There is a XWindows screen reader, but I don't know much about it and how > good it is. If anyone on the list could add some info to this, I would be > welcomed. I would like to know how it compares to Windows or MAC. > > Sean > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Wagner" <wagner.andrew at gmail.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:40 AM > Subject: State of accessibility in Linux > > > > Hi all. > > I'm pretty new to this list. What is the state of accessibility for linux > > users? I read somewhere that there was at one time a goal of having a > > screen > > reader that functioned from boot up to shut down. Is that the case now? Is > > there a linux distribution where the installation is local and accessible? > > What projects need to be done? I have a goal to find/create a linux > > distribution to get my (blind) girlfriend off her dependency on Microsoft. > > One of these days... > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 ---end quoted text--- -- 2E0AXU Freedom & Power provided by debian GNU Linux
