braille and X (apart from beam)

braille and X (apart from beam)

[Andor Demarteau]

hi,
Are there any other project currently working on getting X-support for
braille/speech under linux apart form the Beam project?

Any idea's about how to procede to setup such a program?
Can brltty be used as part of such a driver-overlay?


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Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Christian Comaschi]

Hello! Where do I get Beam? I can't find it.
Thanks

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:42:07PM +0200, Andor Demarteau wrote:
> hi,
> Are there any other project currently working on getting X-support for
> braille/speech under linux apart form the Beam project?
> 
> Any idea's about how to procede to setup such a program?
> Can brltty be used as part of such a driver-overlay?
> 
> 
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Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Christian Comaschi on July 17, 2001, at 18:04]

>Where do I get Beam?

http://www.beam.ltd.uk/xvil/

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Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Alex Bernier]

Hello,

Someone has already used XVIL?
Which braille terminals and synthetizers are suported by XVIL?
And which programs are readable for a blind user using XVIL?

Alex
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At 13:48 17/07/01 -0400, you wrote:
>[quoted lines by Christian Comaschi on July 17, 2001, at 18:04]
>
>>Where do I get Beam?
>
>http://www.beam.ltd.uk/xvil/
>
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Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Jason White]

Andor Demarteau writes:
 > hi,
 > Are there any other project currently working on getting X-support for
 > braille/speech under linux apart form the Beam project?

There is an active Gnome accessibility project which aims to create
the necessary infrastructure to allow braille/speech access to the
Gnome desktop and applications. This includes extensions to GTK and
interface libraries for assistive technologies, as I understand the
project.

Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Andor Demarteau]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jason White wrote:

 > Andor Demarteau writes:
 >  > hi,
 >  > Are there any other project currently working on getting X-support for
 >  > braille/speech under linux apart form the Beam project?
 > 
 > There is an active Gnome accessibility project which aims to create
 > the necessary infrastructure to allow braille/speech access to the
 > Gnome desktop and applications. This includes extensions to GTK and
 > interface libraries for assistive technologies, as I understand the
 > project.
Yes, I've got that url from someone.
Seems like they want not only to extend gnome and the gtk/gtk+ liberies,
but they areworking on a general solution so that everything is clearly
defined and the programmer has to do next to nothing to get his program
accessable.
They even aim on complete keyboard-control.

There solution goes further and includes virually all possible
disabilities, from blind/lowvision to other things like having to use
speechrecognition etc.


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Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Janina Sajka]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Andor Demarteau wrote:

<snip snip snip

> There solution goes further and includes virually all possible
> disabilities, from blind/lowvision to other things like having to use
> speechrecognition etc.
>
This is correct, and it is because of our Sec.508 law here in the states.
Companies like Sun need to do this in order to compete for sales to the
U.S. Government. No access, no sale is the general rule here these days.

Isn't it sweet? Long live 508!

Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Janina Sajka]

Jason is correct about the GNOME work. The uri for this project is:

	http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap

While this is active work, and while it is an exciting prospect, there's
nothing there to download and install just yet. When that day comes,
though, it will be free in keeping with the GNU approach to software.

 On
Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jason White wrote:

> Andor Demarteau writes:
>  > hi,
>  > Are there any other project currently working on getting X-support for
>  > braille/speech under linux apart form the Beam project?
>
> There is an active Gnome accessibility project which aims to create
> the necessary infrastructure to allow braille/speech access to the
> Gnome desktop and applications. This includes extensions to GTK and
> interface libraries for assistive technologies, as I understand the
> project.
>
>
>
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Re: braille and X (apart from beam)

[Alex Bernier]

Hello,

Can you give the URL of this project?

Alex
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At 10:56 18/07/01 +1000, you wrote:
>Andor Demarteau writes:
> > hi,
> > Are there any other project currently working on getting X-support for
> > braille/speech under linux apart form the Beam project?
>
>There is an active Gnome accessibility project which aims to create
>the necessary infrastructure to allow braille/speech access to the
>Gnome desktop and applications. This includes extensions to GTK and
>interface libraries for assistive technologies, as I understand the
>project.
>
>
>
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>

Redhat and the apple power book

[Angelo Sonnesso]

Can Redhat be installed on an Apple Power book?
If so, what about speech?