Fedora and the visually challenged - how is the OS placed ?

[sankarshan]

I had a few questions:

o how well placed is Fedora for being a daily-use system for those who 
are visually challenged

	- installation
	- daily usage

o is there an assessment of what bits are missing

o how well do the software lend themselves to be used

all this is leading up to the question of can a 'spin' be conceived



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[Rahul Sundaram]

Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote:
>  I had a few questions:
>  
>  o how well placed is Fedora for being a daily-use system for those who 
>  are visually challenged
>  
>      - installation
>      - daily usage
>  
>  o is there an assessment of what bits are missing
>  
>  o how well do the software lend themselves to be used
>  
>  all this is leading up to the question of can a 'spin' be conceived 
The general idea was that the default live cd should be sufficient for 
this purpose. In Fedora 9, you can enable accessibility from GDM itself. 
Click on the left side bottom icon for details. These include a screen 
reader, magnifier and so on. I know a few people who keep track of these 
in Fedora but I don't know what's missing still.

Rahul

[susmit shannigrahi]

>  The general idea was that the default live cd should be sufficient
> for this
>  purpose. In Fedora 9, you can enable accessibility from GDM itself. Click on
>  the left side bottom icon for details. These include a screen reader,
>  magnifier and so on. I know a few people who keep track of these in Fedora
>  but I don't know what's missing still. 

Does anaconda have any such option? I can not remember any.



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[Rahul Sundaram]

susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> > The general idea was that the default live cd should be
> sufficient for this
> > purpose. In Fedora 9, you can enable accessibility from GDM itself. Click on
> > the left side bottom icon for details. These include a screen reader,
> > magnifier and so on. I know a few people who keep track of these in Fedora
> > but I don't know what's missing still.
>  
>  
>  Does anaconda have any such option? I can not remember any. 
Not yet. The traditional approach has been to use this

ftp://ftp.speakupmodified.org/speakupmodified/fedora/about.html

Rahul