new user needs advice

new user needs advice

[Gerhard Erasmus]

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Hi

I am a prospective user of linux and have a few questions.  Is linux totally accessible to blind people using a screenreader like speakup?  If not, what are the main areas of inaccessibility?  Secondly, can anyone point me to a list for people new to linux?  I heard that such a list exist but have not been able to find it.

Thanks

gerhard Erasmus



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Re: new user needs advice

[Kirk Reiser]

As two your second question blinux-newbie-request@braille.uwo.ca with
subscribe in the message body.  On your first question I think it's
totally accessable but then I'm just a tad biased. 'grin'

Good luck with your linux quest.
  Kirk

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Re: new user needs advice

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Linux is pretty accessable.  You can't use anything that uses the Xwindows
interface yet, but this is not like DOS vs. windows.  X is merely an
interface and programs that run in text mode can do just as much as their X
counterparts.  We also can't use anything that uses svgalib or stuff like
that.  Having said this, there's lots you can access and most of us here on
this list are doing just fine under linux.  I've been using linux for about
20 months, and I find I'm doing less and less in windows, and I like this.

Geoff.


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speakup and sticky keys

[Randy Stegall]

Hi listers,

I've just installed the zipspeak distribution with ltlk as my synth and I
have found that I cannot make the control, alt or shift sticky.  Can anyone
show me how to fix that in the keymap?  I have read all the man pages for
loadkeys, showkey, and dumpkeys and I have even read a howto on modifying
the keymap but I am still lost.  Help.  Please. Thanks in advance.

Randy

Re: speakup and sticky keys

[Kirk Wood]

I would find the keymap you are loading and modify it as follows (either
add the lines, or modify any that are already there):
keycode 29 = SCtrl
keycode 42 = SShift
keycode 56 = SAlt

These modifications will make your left Ctrl, Shift, and Alt keys work as
a sticky key. You can press and release them and the next character will
behave as if they are held down. They don't lock though. You can find more
information about this in section 15.1 of the
Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO. In fact the article tells you how to do all
kinds of cool and exciting stuff with your keyboard. As a word of warning,
changes in one console act accross the board. So don't figure that you can
change virtual consoles to bail out.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

Re: speakup and sticky keys

[Kirk Reiser]

Hi Kirk and All:  I would really like to thank you for this quick
responce.  You saved me a lot of reading.  I tried your suggestions
and modified the speakup ins key and they all work just fine.  So if
anyone would like a copy of the speakupsticky.map file let me know.
It works quite nicely.

Once again thank you very much Kirk
  Kirk

Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@1tree.net> writes:

> I would find the keymap you are loading and modify it as follows (either
> add the lines, or modify any that are already there):
> keycode 29 = SCtrl
> keycode 42 = SShift
> keycode 56 = SAlt
> 
> These modifications will make your left Ctrl, Shift, and Alt keys work as
> a sticky key. You can press and release them and the next character will
> behave as if they are held down. They don't lock though. You can find more
> information about this in section 15.1 of the
> Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO. In fact the article tells you how to do all
> kinds of cool and exciting stuff with your keyboard. As a word of warning,
> changes in one console act accross the board. So don't figure that you can
> change virtual consoles to bail out.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061