Fedora for the blind?
Valent Turkovic
valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 10:47:22 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield at axion.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:12 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > does anybody have some information how Fedora and linux distros in
> > general are for usable for blind people?
> > I heard that speech recognition isn't really working on linux but what
> > is the state of screen readers/speech synthesis ?
> > How about braile printers and braile keyboards - how do they work on
> > fedora and linux in general?
> > Has anybody heard or some great story how linux is used by blind
> > people? Can you please share links and any info that you have.
> >
> > My niece is 80% blind and she uses some really expensive software (on
> > windows) and hardware so that she can use the PC and at my former
> > university they are starting a class for educating blind people to use
> > PC-s but with windows and some additional expensive software for blind
> > people. I would like to make a project so that they use fedora as a
> > desktop instead if it is possible.
>
> The Orca screen reader for the GNOME desktop is almost as good as
> proprietary ones, and closing the gap fast. Many of those involved in
> its development have a disability themselves, so it is tightly focused
> on what users need.
>
> You might be interested in this story:
>
>
> http://www.linux.com/feature/130942
>
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> Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177
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Thank you Bruce, this is a great article!
Cheers,
Valent.
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