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From: "James & Nash" <james.austin1984@googlemail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:44:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E2F1EEA271BE4D8FA81F94AE62EF7EE3@JA1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601113008.GG5486@const.famille.thibault.fr>

Also it is a way to get blind people interested in Linux without having to 
mess around with various things. Linux still has a reputation for being very 
technical and designed primarily for very computer literate people not just 
the average home user which I would think the majority of people blind and 
otherwise are. That said some distros have made significant steps in making 
Linux accessible to a growing range of folks.

Take care
James Lyn Nash and Twinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?)


Tony Baechler, le Mon 01 Jun 2009 04:22:06 -0700, a écrit :
> If someone could please explain why Vinux is so much better than a
> mainstream distro and why one should lower their standards to using a
> special distro primarily for the blind,

My understanding is that it's available _now_ with tweaks here and
there, not waiting for distributions to properly fix things like e.g.
orca's reading of root-launched applications.  I do too believe that
it's not a viable long-term solution.

Samuel
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Accessible Ubuntu Installation? Gaijin
 ` Tyler Littlefield
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Glenn Ervin
 ` Michael Whapples
   ` Jerry Matheny
     ` Glenn Ervin
 ` Georgina Joyce
   ` Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?) Tony Baechler
     ` Samuel Thibault
       ` James & Nash [this message]
         ` Vinux Tony Baechler
           ` Vinux James & Nash
       ` Vinux Hermann
         ` Vinux Tony Baechler
           ` Vinux Samuel Thibault
           ` Vinux Gregory Nowak
     ` Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?) al Sten-Clanton
     ` John G. Heim
       ` Vinux Tony Baechler
         ` Vinux James & Nash
           ` Vinux Samuel Thibault
             ` Vinux James & Nash
             ` Vinux Terry D. Cudney
     ` Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?) Georgina Joyce
     ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209

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