Actually, are not there more Linux options too? yassar, and e-lux and one more if I am not mistaken and I may be voice over is great too, depending on what you want to do. It like I suppose everything save for DOS does not work with everything, grin. Karen On Sat, 27 May 2006, David Poehlman wrote: > I like voice over with shell. > > On May 25, 2006, at 6:52 AM, 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
