Re: newbie:"E-mail and websurfing with Gnopernicus?"

[Jason White <jasonw ariel ucs unimelb edu au>]

Peter Korn writes:
 > Hi Kari,
 > 
 > > Is the Gnopernicus so functional at the moment that one could use e-mail
 > > and web-surfing? I'm looking for an alternative for my Win95 system,
 > > which is not as reliable as I would wish.
 > > 
 > > I'm partially sighted and use my Windows computer with JAWS screen
 > > reader and ZoomText magnification program. Many years ago I did
 > > programming with Basic, Assembly and Pascal, but nowadays I don't even
 > > know the tools used to develop programs. I'd be happy to help
 > > Gnopernicus development though.
 > > 
 > > Happy New Year to everybody on the list.
 > 
 > I would not recommend it today as a functional replacement for JAWS and/or
 > ZoomText when used with the market leading e-mail and web browsing
 > applications for Windows.  There is still a lot of testing and debugging to
 > do.

Although this is slightly off-topic for the list, I would mention that
Emacspeak (http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net) is a mature  speech-based
desktop environment that works reliably today and has a substantial
community of users. It can also run under X, so in principle you
should be able to gain the benefit of font enlargement as well as
speech.