Re: [orca-list] Accessible-Coconut version 16.04.22 Released

[Victor Lawrence <victorelawrence gmail com>]

Hello!

This sounds very promising! I will have to test it.

Victor

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> On Nov 27, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Sath Linux <sath linux gmail com> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
> We cocofrix team are very happy to announce the release of
> Accessible-Coconut 16.04.22.
> Accessible coconut is a Gnu/Linux based operating system customized to
> meet the challenges
> caused by impaired vision.
>
> Latest Version can be downloaded from : www.cocofrix.com
>
> Special features of this distribution..
>
> 1 All the libraries in the world are accessible before the visually
> challenged. Linux intelligent OCR solution. Lios is a tool
> developed by our team which can help a person to read printed
> materials in almost all the prominent languages of the world including
> Indian languages like Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, etc. Lios has all the
> facilities required for a standard OCR tool such as pdf conversion,
> image conversion, acquire image from scanner, screenshot ocr, go to page,
> go to line, page settings, Audio Converter, Text Cleaner, and like.
> Lios has a low vision environment with facility to change Text Color,
> Background Color, Font, and facility to Read with Highlight.
> Lios use Tesseract 4.0 and Cuneiform as OCR Engines.
>
> 2 IBus-Sharada-Braille : - a system wide input method for producing text.
> One can use six key approach for Brailler mode,  for producing text in
> different languages.  Letter f, d, s, j, k, l represent the six dots
> of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, of braille and we can use different combinations
> for different letters.
> All the contractions and Abbreviations in English are included in the tool
> as default. And again, one can create any number of contractions and
> abbreviations of one’s own choice in any language. We have provided a
> language editor for adding languages, abbreviation editor,
> and a preference to select any key to represent the braille dots.
> We have also provided seven and eight keys to support languages like
> Japanese, and Chinese.
> One hand mode. We have added a feature which helps a person with one
> hand to use IBus-Sharada-Braille.
>
>
> 3 Tuxtype : -  Tuxtype is a sophisticated program, to practice typing
> in different
> languages, and it is written in C and powered by SDL. We have made it
> accessible and
> one can learn typing in a game like way. We have also added a six key
> component in it and it is available as
> tuxtype braille.
>
>
> 4 Tuxmaths : - Tuxmaths is a game for practicing basic mathematical
> skills. Lan Multiplayer is also possible and accessible.
>
> 5 Chess accessibility : - We have made Xboard accessible. Xboard an
> application for playing chess
> using different chess engines.
>
> 6 Accessible Musical Instrument : - We have provided latest version of
> Linux MultiMedia Studio(LMMS) which is accessible. LMMS is an
> ingenious music producer and editor.
> We have also provided a menu item named Instruments inside sound and
> video menu to play Instruments via LMMS.
>
> 7 Office suit : - A visually challenged person can use more accessible
> open office spreadsheet,
> And Libreoffice Writer for Document purposes.
>
> 8 Fixes for ORCA Screen Reader : - We have made small changes in orca.
> One of which allow smooth continuous reading
> which can be enabled by selecting "Sentence(Using Full stop)" in
> Say-All-By Option. Another change is we have removed
> call to window.clearCache() which quit orca while closing or switch
> between applications. This can be reverted using the
> menu item inside Universal Access Menu.
>
> 9 Artha - English offline Dictionary, Select the word and press
> Alt+Ctrl+W in order to get the meaning.
>
> 10 SMPlayer : - Play audio's and Video's in any speed.
>
> 11 Sharada-Braille-Writer : - Simple text editor for typing in six key
> Braille mode.
>
> 12 Chrome With Speech : - Accessible Chrome Web Browser.
>
> 13 Hydrogen : - Play Drums.
>
> 14 Audacity : - Sound recording and editing.
>
> 15 Curlew : - Easy to use accessible multimedia converter.
>
> 16 Daisy-Player : - Play daisy audio formats.
>
> 17 eBook-Speaker : - Read ebook aloud.
>
> 19 CPU-G : - View your system configuration, Kernel Version, etc.
>
> 20 Format-USB : - format USB pendrive or external hard-drive.
>
> 21 VCD-Imager : - Extract video from VCD/DVD.
>
> 22 Pidgin : - Universal chat client.
>
> 23 Calibre : - Manage E-book collections as well as to create, edit,
> and read e-books.
>
> 24 Audacious : - Audio Player.
>
> 25 blueman : - BlueTooth manager.
>
> 26 Periodic-Table : - Accessible Periodic Table.
>
> 27 Grub-Customizer : - Change boot entries of operating systems.
>
> 28 Gparted : - Accessible partitioner for your storage devices.
>
> Thanking you cocofrix team.
>
>
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