[access-uk] Re: linux for the blind
- From: "James & Nash" <james.austin1984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:43:11 +0000
Hi Issac
I think a number of the problems you might have found in Ubuntu were due to the
way speech was handled by Pulseaudio and the fact that it wasn't very well
integrated into the Linux kernel. There are work arounds on the following site
if you are interested though:
http://www.live.gnome.org/Orca
Also, I found that when I used the latest version of Ubuntu, I think it is
9.10, that by default the special video effects were enabled, which meant that
certain features were not accessible to Orca. These should be turned off, then
things become a lot easier, although I think you will still need to use the
command line to access Administrative applications and perform Admin tasks.
TC
James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny
On 29 Jan 2010, at 00:13, Isaac Porat wrote:
> Hi
>
> Regarding Vinux, it is working very well out of the box you can get the
> virtual edition which you can get going under Windows in minutes. By
> default (like NVDA) it uses espeak which I actually like a lot.
> If you want to learn to use Linux Vinux is very good and the support on the
> mailing list is excellent too. The drawback with Vinux is that it is based
> on Debian Lenny which uses gnome 2.22 (the desktop) which is fairly old (the
> current gnome version is 2.28) and there have been substantial accessibility
> improvements since; since 2.26 you can use Open Office 3 and Thunderbird 3
> which are a lot more accessible than earlier versions. So if you want to do
> some real work with Vinux GUI, you are probably better wait until the next
> version which will probably come out sometimes in April, will be based on
> Debian Squeeze and will have the latest gnome 2.28.
>
> Your other option is Ubuntu. The latest called Karmic (gnome 2.28) never
> worked for me having issues of slow speech etc but the version before called
> Jaunty (gnome 2.26) is very good and you can be productive with it - be
> prepared for a steep learning curve with Linux.
>
> Regards
> Isaac
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> ari
> Sent: 28 January 2010 14:10
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] linux for the blind
>
> Hi all
> Is it worth trying to use Vinux? What can a person do with it, like can you
> use the Office and browse yet? I remember a few years ago I was excited
> about trying linux, and someone helped me partition my harddrive and install
> Red Hat with a screen reader called Gnopernicus, and then after that another
> one called Orca, but, first the voices were really rubbish, and second you
> couldn't hardly do anything. It was so pathetic that we couldn't even get
> Gnopernicus to read it's own manual in the web browser. I just gave up on
> linux after that, but am curious to look at it again.
> Thanks
> Ari
>
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