Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.

I have to agree with Samuel.

I've been trying to use Gnome for over 2 years now.  There has been
progress, but I still use the text console for everything.  Elinks in
the text console provides better access than Sun's Mozilla.  I can't
access remote systems in the Gnome environment, so Gnome is just an
interesting concept and not yet a useful solution.

I ran MS Windows for 4 years from 1996 until late 2000.  Gnome isn't as
useable as MS Windows was yet.
Eventually, it will get there, but not yet.  Until there is more
progress, I have to tell anyone needing to do there job in a GUI to
stick with Windows.

I can do my work in a text console, and I have time to test software,
but most people trying to do there job don't.

          Kenny
	  
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:15:21PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Samuel:
> 
> It is vital to our survival that we do not agree too quickly with such 
> people.  We do already have end users who are using gnopernicus to carry 
> our their daily work; without our existing work, as it already is, this 
> would not be possible.
> 
> There are four open source assistive technologies directly using the 
> AT-SPI framework already, and two of them are screenreaders.  Both are 
> under active development, so we should be careful not to undersell what 
> we have achieved.  I agree that there is a lot of work left to do, but 
> we have the great advantage of having done the work in the open where 
> all can contribute to its improvement.
> 
> Bill
> 
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Dave Lister, le Thu 29 Sep 2005 21:33:45 +0800, a écrit :
> > 
> >
> >>The following have emailed Mass. regarding the lack of support in Open 
> >>Source for the blind or visually impaired. Do you have any information to 
> >>the contrary. If so do you mind informing them of such.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Well, I cannot but say that I unfortunately do agree with those people:
> >really usable graphical screen reader don't yet exist on linux. And
> >these people need to use graphical application for their jobs.
> >
> >There _are_ efforts on this, and on the long run those people will
> >really have _better_ access to free software than to proprietary
> >software (so that shifting to free software _is_ a good idea). But
> >for now, it seems that gnopernicus is far from providing the same
> >accessibility as JAWS.
> >
> >My 2¢,
> >Regards,
> >Samuel
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> >
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