Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

["hank smith" <hanksmith4 earthlink net>]

what is the second screen reader?
I thaught gnopernicus was the only working one?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haneman" <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
To: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>
Cc: "Dave Lister" <emacsuser linuxmail org>; 
<gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>; <marc acbradio org>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired


> 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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