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[orca-list] linux notetaker (was gui)

I think you're right about the business opportunity. I have no interest in starting a business but I've been toying with the idea of building a linux notetaker for years now. It started when my department gave me a Soekris 4801. This is a computer about the size and shape of a VHS video tape. It has just 256M of ram and the equivalent of a 486 processor. But it's more than 10 years old. I just got a 4Gb CF drive for it. Anyway, 10 years ago, I put linux, brltty, andspeakup on it and used it like a braille notetaker.
I don't know if you could make any money this way but you can probably find a machine similar to a Soekris and attach a USB keyboard and headset. I don't think you'd want something from Soekris itself. That company specializes in small computers with a lot of ethernet ports. You're supposed to build your own network switches with them. You'd want something with extra USB ports and just one ethernet port.
Every once in a while, I poke around on the internet looking for the right hardware. If I could find a netbook without a screen that I could install linux on, I'd have what I want. 


On 09/02/2015 03:00 PM, Josh K wrote:
I am not a coder. never could really get the hang of it. well I can make little bash scripts that runs commands in sequence to do things. that's about it though for me. but if I ever went back to college I would get a laptop throw a solid state hard drive into it and make a ubuntu noteTaker out of it probably. hmmmmmm, I wonder if I could make a business out of that somehow? laptops with ubuntu linux or maybe sonar linux whatever worked on the machine throw in a ssd and a voxin license on top of a stable linux distro and sell ubuntu notetakers? It could be a business opportunity for me? if it works? 

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On 9/2/2015 10:22 AM, Devin Prater wrote:
The problem is that not everyone can be expected to know how to code. If Linux is only for coders, which its not, considering all the little games out there for it, then I'm sure most sighted Linux users would have put the OS down years ago. You can't expect everyone to be coders and be able to fix accessibility problems.' 

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On Sep 2, 2015, at 6:55 AM, kk <krmane gmail com> wrote:
Often we see that some part of the accessibility stack or the other gets broken inadvertently Imagine what would happen if for example some day for some time the accessibility of our settings panel in gnome is broken for some reason? 
It will be fixed sooner or later but till then what will happen?
We will have no access to orca preference itself.
The case of accessibility is different.
We certainly need a way out and Orca accessibility in all aspects is crucial. So we must have a dedicated hot key for accessing Orca prefs. 
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Wednesday 02 September 2015 04:45 PM, Tony Baechler wrote:

On 9/1/2015 10:24 AM, B. Henry wrote:
Well, it's not unreasonalble to ask users to read a bit of documentation to learn a keystroke or two when trying a new desktop, but unless I'm missing something folks like myself who use a window manager such as fluxbox and fill in accessibility gaps with custom scripts would be left out in the cold if 
an orca prefs window was done away with.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I think that in this case, it is unreasonable to expect people to be required to read documentation in order to figure out how to set their Orca prefs. That attitude in general is why so many people, both blind and sighted, either are put off by Linux, won't try it in the first place or give up without ever installing it and giving it a fair chance. I don't have a problem expecting people to read a basic accessibility guide and I agree that once people have learned the basics that they should be expected to read the docs, but expecting them to read the docs before they even get started is asking too much. Other than your first statement, I agree with what I think you're trying to say. I think you're agreeing with my previous post on the subject which is that regardless of what desktop or window manager, there needs to be a universal keystroke to access the Orca prefs. I don't think people should have to read the docs to find it, how 
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  ver.
What would be good is for Orca to open the prefs window automatically when it's started from a live environment so people don't have to hunt around to find them. Maybe could a command line switch like --prefs be added for this? I thought there was already such a switch, but I didn't see it when reading "orca --help" on my Ubuntu MATE 15.04 system. 
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