From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 733 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at speech; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:16:51 EDT Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.68]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984A9C1A0FD for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:16:51 -0400 (EDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=p3WCMybNxDgJFuNUudQiK1jpxBfxGcYEORFvCSZhw2/bo7PzUc1gIWl8ZZF7GOjf; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [71.255.75.170] (helo=[192.168.1.24]) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1R8jVo-0003uw-25 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:04:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4E828072.4000703@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:03:30 -0400 From: Liz Hare User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: distributions for X References: <000001cc7d7b$31261310$93723930$@org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 5ab1ece3742e0964d780f4a490ca6956d5d4673fe7faad869e7b034df632c2fc91430b1a594aba98350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 71.255.75.170 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:16:51 -0000 Hi Kelly, X is not accessible with speech. If you want a multitasking/windowing environment, you might want to check out the Gnome system with the Orca screen reader. I haven't used it yet, but it's webpage is here: http://live.gnome.org/Orca Liz Liz Hare PhD Dog Genetics LLC doggene@earthlink.net http://www.doggenetics.com On 9/27/2011 9:35 PM, G.E. wrote: > Kelly, > Just what do you do with x windows? > I saw your post and looked it up on the web, and wikipedia tried to explain > it, but I still really don't understand it. > Sounds like it is a server for terminals, but I don't quite get it. > But wikipedia did say this about accessibility: > " Computer accessibility related issues > Systems built upon the X windowing system may have accessibility issues that > make utilization of a computer difficult for disabled users, including right > click, double click, middle click, mouseover, and focus stealing. Some X11 > clients deal with accessibility issues better than others, so those with > accessibility problems are not locked out of using X11. However there is no > accessibility standard or accessibility guidelines for X11. Within the X11 > standards process there is no working group on accessibility, so the known > ongoing accessibility problems are probably going to persist into the > future. > > " > Anyway, I would be curios as to how it can be used. > Thanks. > > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kelly Prescott" > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:08 PM > Subject: distributions for X > > > Can any one here give me information about which distributions work natively > best with the XWindows system? > I have used speakup and text for years, and dos terminals before that, but I > want to give the X screen readers a try to see how they are moving along. > Is there a out-of-the-box solution, or do I have to muck around with it. > You can reply off-list to me if you want. > Thanks. > -- Kelly Prescott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >