* Distros that include Speakup that are accessible to install
@ Keith Hinton
` Christopher Brannon
` William Hubbs
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From: Keith Hinton @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi. I'm trying to figure out what distros of Linux are accessible to install
for the blind these days. Obviously, I know that there is the Talking Arch
installer net installation CD, wich is wonderful. I know GRML is another
LiveCD with Speakup that works. Just curious.
Something I was noticing about Speakup though.
It sometimes reads things twice.
For instance, if your selecting a fileSystem for Arch, you'll arrow around
with Highlight tracking (and this is with the export
DIALOGOPTS='--visit-items') option enabled.
"Ext2 ext2. Ext3 ext 3." Does anyone know why Speakup does that?
Also, I'm wondering how Speakup obtains information that's visible and is
there any way to "redraw the screen" for it?
I'm curious if it pulls the information off the video card like the old DOS
days? Or something.
I know that Linux itself for even the GUI screen readers out there, doesn't
use an OSM. I'm curious therefore, what Speakup itself uses.
Regards, --Keith
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* Re: Distros that include Speakup that are accessible to install
Distros that include Speakup that are accessible to install Keith Hinton
@ ` Christopher Brannon
` William Hubbs
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Brannon @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
"Keith Hinton" <keithint1234@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi. I'm trying to figure out what distros of Linux are accessible to install
> for the blind these days.
There's a list at <http://linux-speakup.org/distros.html>.
If you think it's missing anything, just say so.
-- Chris
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* Re: Distros that include Speakup that are accessible to install
Distros that include Speakup that are accessible to install Keith Hinton
` Christopher Brannon
@ ` William Hubbs
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: William Hubbs @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:40:05AM -0700, Keith Hinton wrote:
> Also, I'm wondering how Speakup obtains information that's visible and is
> there any way to "redraw the screen" for it?
> I'm curious if it pulls the information off the video card like the old DOS
> days? Or something.
> I know that Linux itself for even the GUI screen readers out there, doesn't
> use an OSM. I'm curious therefore, what Speakup itself uses.
Speakup uses the notifiers in the kernel.
Basically, it registers two functions that get called, one when a key is
pressed, and the other when something is written to a virtual terminal.
Those functions are told what was just written to the screen or which
key was pressed, and they pass that information to the rest of speakup
which then reads it.
William
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