Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
- From: Georgina Joyce <gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 23:19:33 +0100
Hi Sean
What a good summary you provided. Just to bring you up to date with
speakup. These last few months have seen a great deal of development
activity with speakup. I understand that it will be likely we'll see
speakup as a standard part of stock kernels again.
The cvs repository I think is still available for 2.6.21 kernels. But
all the activity is now with git. The current 2.6.25 kernel can be
patched by:
$ git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
Then just running the installer from the cloned tree.
Happy hacking!
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 21:19 -0700, Sean Murphy wrote:
> All,
>
> I know this thread is some what old, but I felt it is necessary for me to
> put up my experiences with Linux.
>
> I have been using Linux in a professional and home situation for the last 5
> years. ubuntu is dedicated to making their distro with accessibility as a
> standard feature.
>
> Orca is an okay environment. If you use firefox 3, then yu can surf the
> web. The shell environment (Xterm) works quite well. Support in other
> areas is still lacking. I haven't yet found a good Xwindow email client.
> Open Office is not yet at the same level as Word and Jaws. Hopefully they
> shall get there one day.
>
> Linux has a lot of free synths available which work quite well. Brltty is
> the braille output program.
>
> I personally like to use Speakup because it permits me to do everything I
> require under Linux. YASR is crap and is very difficult to use. Both of
> these appplications work in the native console environment. ubuntu used to
> come with Speakup as part of the distro. I do not know if you can still get
> Edgy which had it in it.
>
> Note: Speakup was a part of ubuntu. But the Linux Kernel developers pulled
> the plug due to stability issues. I do not know if Speakup is still being
> maintained.
>
> Emacspeak is still the best editor under Linux for a VI. This is basically
> a screen reader of its own.
>
> Debian, ubuntu and like Distros have a far easier management tool than does
> Redhat. Aptitude is the tool which you use to grab your packages. apt-get,
> apt-cache and other tools are not as powerful as Aptitude. Such as:
>
> To summorise, Orca is the only good Screen Reader for XWindows and Speakup I
> believe is the best Console Screen Reader. Emacspeak is the best text based
> desktop environment under linux.
>
> Sean
>
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