Re: Some general questions

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

I'd suggest reading the Gnome Accessibility Guide, in particular the 
Appendices, and also the Gnopernicus manual.  This information may help 
you in setting up fullscreen magnification.
Also note that, if you are using Festival as your text-to-speech engine, 
you will need to modify /etc/festival.scm unless you are using the 
latest-and-greatest (1.96?) Festival version.  Gnopernicus also works 
with FreeTTS (requires Sun's Java 1.4 or better), and some commercial 
TTS engines.  In any case, newer is better where the gnopernicus, gail, 
and gnome-mag packages are concerned (among others).

Solaris 10 accessibility should be much improved with the 
soon-to-be-released update.  We're starting to look at OpenSolaris 
accessibility now as well.

regards,

Bill

Michael Wigle wrote:

> I am trying to put together an accessible linux workstation to see how 
> viable it is. I have thus far tried Red Hat Fedora Core, SUSE, and 
> Solaris 10. Of the three I was most impressed with SUSE. So, my first 
> question is, what flavors are others using with Gnopernicus or does it 
> really make much difference? Also, when I have managed to get the 
> magnifier to work it only seems to be a half screen magnifier but I 
> thought I saw at a conference that it was doing full screen 
> magnification. Am I missing a setting or command somewhere for that? 
> Any feedback would be appreciated. I am a tech but have only basic 
> linux experience and can compile simple packages but haven't even sent 
> parameters to the configure command yet.
>
> Michael Wigle
> Computer Access Specialist
> Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
>
>
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