Category: Geeks r Us
I am wondering about if Lynex has screen readers and what their and ways to get them
Linux has screen readers. For the Gnome desktop environment, there's Orca, which operates in a way with which you are already familiar from Windows products. There's a console screen review option called Speakup. Finally, there's an audio desktop system called Emacspeak. There might be more console packages out there. For an easy Linux distro which already has Orca and the x-windows already set up for you, may I suggest The Ubuntu distro. Orca and Gnome can run in other distros, but, you need to do more of the setup yourself. the Speakup screen review system is still around, though there probably isn't much new activity. From the Speakup site, you can get links to several distros with Speakup patched into them. Emacspeak is interesting and a little strange to most. Also, you can't do much without knowing about the Emacs environment, on which Emacspeak and the applications it works with are built.
I hope this gets you started.
-Dave H
I have tried the ubuntu live cde and the insructions for running it with orca work perfectly. speakup is alive and will and for a fully speaking distru of fedora 8 go to speakupmodified.org. the documentation is extensive and well written.
Thanks for that, Willy; how concise! LOL. and it's "L i n u x", btw, Mike.
SlackWare is another great product and uses SpeakUp
SlackWare Website
Ahh, good spelling, what is that? Thanks Mike appreciate that. I usually type these things so fast that I definately miss a few letters.
Hi all.
I use the ubuntu live cd. I have a question though. If I install it, What do I have to do to keep windows installed as well?
I've never created partitions before or anything, so I'm not sure what to do here.
Thanks
Bryan Mckinnish
Bryan, I am looking forward to this answer too since that is my next project. did you use orca and how accessible were things to you?
To install, there is a trick you'll have to to do in order to get orca up and running as root. As you know, or might not know, when launching an ap from the gnome desktop that requires root privilages, it actually launches from that separate accounts. Thus, Orca cannot communicate across multiple accounts, so you need to launch orca and that ap you want to launch, ubiquity as an example for the installer, in order for both to work nicely. When installing, you have a screen that asks how you want to partition your drive. Now Linux will automatically create the partition and make room for itself, only if you select the guided - use available free space on the selected drive. This is important. If you want Windows on the drive you should install it first before installing linux because it breaks grub otherwise, which can be repaired it's just not fun. Actually it's just an editing of the menu.list file. Anyway, I suggest reading up on the Orca wiki and joining the mailing list. I've known Willie and the gang for a few years and they are very very nice and helpful.
Orca website
So play around with it and let me or anyone on here know if you have any questions.