I haven't been able to get gnome-3.6 to start at all on my Arch install, but Debian Wheezy/experimental with gnome-3.4.x "works," if you call gnome-shell "working." Garrett -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Pirika Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 7:30 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: ArchLinux tutorials, and the state of accessibility in linux Excellent, I'm interested in emacspeak especially. and also gnome. What tools are needed to get emacspeak working in a software speech environment? Arthur On 8/12/2012 08:39, Jason White wrote: > Arthur Pirika <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote: > >> Second, what are peoples experience with tools like emacspeak, >> speech-dispatcher, and gnome/KDE accessibility, things you don't hear a >> lot about these days? Are they still viable options for access, >> especially emacspeak? > Emacspeak is better than ever, as is BRLTTY if you have a braille display. > > If you're on the right mailing lists, you'll hear a lot about the > accessibility of X11 desktops, especially Gnome, but also the early > development of accessibility for KDE. Other desktop environments, notably > XFCE, have received some attention too. In short, there is work underway > in > all of these areas. How useful these environments are depends on what you > need > to do with them and on how accessible the particular applications are that > you > might want to run in your X session. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
