[guispeak] Re: Screen Reader for Linux
- From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 03:33:01 -0400
Does this person need to administer linux, or just log on remotely? If
remotely then just look for a good ssh client and log on from windows. But
if he/she wants to administer a linux box:
An excellent console screen reader for linux is speakup:
http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html
This is the screen reader that is compiled into the kernel of linux and
therefore you have speech much earlier in the boot process than in windows.
Other text based screen readers include yasr (yet another screen reader) and
emacspeak (a talking environment built around the popular emacs text
editor).
There are others I can't think of.
The above screen readers are text based and so will not work with the
graphical environments like gnome or kde -- for gnome there is a screen
reader being worked on called gnopernicus that is not nearly as far along as
the windows screen readers -- in fact gnome itself is a work in progress, so
if you use gnopernicus you may run into glitches. I am not experienced with
any of the talking environments on linux -- since I lost my reading vision I
have been using speech only on windows and so when I need to be on linux, I
log on from a windows machine and make due with jaws and an ssh client.
I am subscribed to the speakup list however as a lurker and want to get
linux and speakup on one of my PC's, for use mainly as a server -- if I can
manage to find time, which these days is scarce.
Speakup has a dedicated following and has been pounded on and is very
popular to the point where there are implementations for all the various
flavors of linux.
So if you are interested in a text based screen reader, speakup is
definitely the best choice I gather.
gnopernicus is still coming along and had the boost of being picked up by
Sun for use on solaris, but I honestly don't know its current status.
HTH
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bundy, Keith" <Keith.Bundy@xxxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:19 PM
Subject: [guispeak] Screen Reader for Linux
We have a client who needs to work with Linux. What is the name of a
good screen reader that works with this OS.
Thanks for your help.
Keith Bundy
Director of Student Development
ADA Academic Coordinator
Dakota State University
Madison, SD
605-256-5121
Email: keith.bundy@xxxxxxx
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