From: herzog <herzog@frontiernet.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: On Slashdot.org : Linux Distributions for the Vision Impaired?
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:53:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305281953.39963.herzog@frontiernet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305290015320.2870-100000@goldfish.ath.cx>
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:18 pm, Hans Zoebelein wrote:
I just got a 2 disk freebie demo of Redhat9 installed, and am only twe weeks
into it. I like. But I am sighted, and have been similarilly looking for
competition for my wife's JAWS and eudora, and win98SE.
I am told that the full redhat9 has emacspeak on it, and I will try it after I
get a new soundboard. The existing one in HP computer is imcompatible.
Will
> Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 27, @07:55PM
> from the braille-penguins dept.
>
> MoreDruid asks: "Not long ago, I was asked to do some research for a
> blind relative from a friend of mine. I tried searching the sites of Red
> Hat, Debian, and some other distro's, but only SuSe came up with really
> useful information. I did find Blinux, but I think it's not really
> mature yet. Do any other Slashdotters have any experience in this field?
> What is a good distro to start with? This research is geared towards a
> blind newbie user, so are there any decent resources for vision impaired
> people so that he can get going with Linux?" This topic was discussed,
> in a more general sense, some two years ago, and there have since been
> questions dealing with several pieces of the puzzle. However, is there
> anything else out there, aside from the developing Blinux, that puts it
> all together in one nice package?
>
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2319216&mode=thread&tid=106
>&tid=185
>
>
> Enjoy!
> --Hans
>
>
>
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