Re: [orca-list] ViewPoints features Orca, Gnome, and Linux Accessibility

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hi Alex +1 from me on the thanking part.
Here in India we have great demand for Orca and rightly so.
I am myself either directly heading some projects for education based 
computer training for the blind or am indirectly involved on a few of 
them which I initiated.
Even I am trying my level best to string together some developers or 
start doing it myself, just waiting for startup documentation to come up 
for blind or sighted programmers.
I think if people who understand the importance and who can code come 
together, then the dream of Orca being the best screen reader can be 
realised.
And we must realise that today more than 40% computer user's in the 
world use FOSS either partially or totally in their daily computing.
So Orca is going to be very significant tool for education and 
employment of the blind.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 05/30/2012 07:27 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Great podcast.  Had it going while I read my e-mails.  Wonderful way
> to start the day.  I did my bit to raise awareness via Twitter and
> some hash tags.  Be awesome if somebody did this for other social
> networks they frequented.  Here's what I remember from Joannie's wish
> list for everyone to pitch in and help out:
>
> (pardon my paraphrasing):
> 1.  Accessible installers:  If everyone with the skill and know-how
> took the distro they used and worked on getting the installer
> accessible, it would be less of a drag for someone who is blind and
> wants to use that distro to take advantage of its features.
> 2.  More voices.  Orca uses speech dispatcher and primarily espeak
> which, as we all know, sounds quite robotic.  There is documentation
> on the espeak site for people to be able to modify the voices and
> tweak them up to spec.  Be nice if everyone went over to the site and
> gave it a look to see if it's something they could do especially for
> their native language.
>
>
> Have a nice day.  Joanie and Alex, let me join my voice to all of
> those who directly benefit from your wonderful work in thanking you
> most deeply and sincerely for what you do.  It makes one heck of a
> difference and we really appreciated it from the bottom of our hearts.
>
> Alex M
> Twitter:  @hunbaatz
>
> On 5/30/12, Peter Torpey<ptorpey00 gmail com>  wrote:
> > ViewPoints is a weekly, half hour radio show / podcast which covers a wide
> > variety of topics of interest to the visually impaired.  In this week's
> > episode, we interviewed Joannie and Alex about what they do and what is
> > under the hood in Linux accessibility:
> >
> > ViewPoints 1222 5-30-12 ViewPoints #1222 Orca, Gnome and Accessibility in
> > Linux
> > This week's show focuses on the Orca screen reader, the Gnome desktop and
> > how accessibility works in Linux. Join hosts Nancy Goodman Torpey and Peter
> > Torpey as they talk with Joanmarie Diggs and Alejandro Pineiro, two of the
> > lead developers about what's under the hood, how it got there and how you
> > can help improve it.
> >
> > If you want to listen to or download this episode directly go to:
> > www.ViewPointsPlus.net/vp_1222_podcast.mp3
> >
> > You can also subscribe to the weekly, half hour podcast of ViewPoints by
> > pasting the following text into your podcatcher program:
> > http://viewpointsplus.net/tinc?key=Q7Mc6vq1
> >
> >
> > folks on this list may also be interested in an episode of ViewPoints from
> > last year which featured an interview with the lead developers of Vinux, a
> > fully accessible version of Linux right out of the box:
> >
> > ViewPoints 1136 9-7-2011 Vinux - accessible operating system
> > Hosts Peter Torpey and Nancy Goodman Torpey devote this entire show to
> > Vinux, a fully accessible and easy to use computer operating system.
> > Besides
> > describing how it works, they interview two of its creators and explain how
> > you can get involved in follow-on improvements, updates and upgrades.
> >
> > To learn more about ViewPoints, subscribe to the podcast, find links to
> > older shows along with show notes, etc. go to the main web site at:
> > www.ViewPointsPlus.net
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Check out ViewPoints
> > A weekly, half hour radio program for people living with low vision
> > Find out more about the show and get links to the podcasts at:
> >         www.ViewPointsPlus.net
> > Visit us on Facebook at:
> >         http://www.facebook.com/ViewPointsPlus
> > Follow us on Twitter at:
> >         www.twitter.com/@ViewPointsPlus
> > Send suggestions or comments to:
> >         contact ViewPointsPlus net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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