Hi All I am having some guys from the local LUG come around to mine tomorrow to load up Ubuntu 6 - not sure which sub version - onto my PC. Can you please let me know what accessability is in-built into this distro? I want to achieve as near as possible an equivilant to Windows ZoomText in functionality. >From previous postings I am aware that Orca is available - as I do not have an external synth, I presume I will need Festival as well - is this part of the distro? I am visually impaired with about 40% sight left so I need accessability interfaces to allow me to have: - full screen magnification 4x is my normal level, in both GUI and non-GUI interfaces - is this manageable by Gnome magtnification and is this on the distro? - screen colour inversion to allow white writing on a black background - Gnome Mag? - screen reader - this is the Orca + Festival interface? - document reader - Open Office documents and PDF. Do I still need, if memory serves, the Java bridge for OO - again is this on the distro? There have been postings about LSR and Speech Despatcher - LSR I presume complements Orca, but where does Speech Despatcher fit in; is it a Festival replacement or an additional Service to allow other apps to interface with the above accessability options? Cheers in anticipation Ian
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