Re: [orca-list] GNU Accessibility Initiative

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

The ones I would add are brltty for Braille display access 
(http://mielke.cc/brltty) and speakup (http://www.linux-speakup.org). If 
you were to say you want to only be on one, then I would advise brltty 
as well as giving text console access in Linux it also provides Braille 
display support for other applications such as orca.

Regarding certain issues which I think might be worth considering is the 
integration of accessibility in distributions, particularly important 
for some of the gnome accessibility stuff. As an example there is a 
large well known distribution sponsored by a big company in the Linux 
world (I will leave them anonymous although you may work it out from 
this message and some of my previous messages) who despite having orca 
and a TTS on their LiveCD have such an install process which makes it 
impossible for a blind user to do it the official way. This particular 
distribution has no accessibility discussion mailing list and my 
comments to some of the developer lists went fairly unnoticed. While I 
do believe in trying to improve accessibility, the computer is there to 
help me and so the work I may have had to do alone with this particular 
distribution I felt may take too much time and may end up being my main 
computer task. I feel I will put effort where I will get outcomes.

Sorry that last bit became a bit of a rant, but may be its something 
which you may want to consider. I don't know whether may be some sort of 
GNU accessibility standard which distributions could aspire to meet 
would be worth while.

Michael Whapples
On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, Piñeiro wrote:
> From: Christian Hofstader<cdh gnu org>
>
>    
> > I plan on remaining subscribed to this list along with the one for
> > vinux, emacspeak and would appreciate any other lists concerning free
> > software and access technology that you can recommend.
> >      
> You could consider gnome accessibility lists:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
>
> If you want more background of GNOME accessibility:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility
>
>
> This GNU project is really promising, keep working.
>
> BR
>
> ===
> API (apinheiro igalia com)
>