The first day of the workshop has just got over. It has been very exciting.
We actually tried two self booting CDs. 

1. Oralux. Which loads emacspeak directly. This distribution is meant
specially for persons with blindness and is extremely speech friendly. We do
need to learn commands for getting around but it is really all very worth
all efforts. 

The second is the distribution of Ubuntu which comes with screen reader
called ORCA. It works well in the GNOM Graphic user environment and works
well with open office word and excel. 

Both these Cds are now available from NAB Delhi and if any one wants to get
these CDs instead of downloading it from web site, you could send request on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] There will be a charge of 15 rupees for the CD and if
you want this to be sent by courier then 25 rupees need to be added for
this. Thus you could get these CDs in 40 rupees for one CD or 55 rupees for
both.

Thanks
Dipendra
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aruni Sharma
Sent: 10 November 2006 12:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AI] New mailing list for linux and emacspeak created!

Hello friends, you will be glad to know that steps have been initiated in
order to start popularising the use of linux and emacspeak among the
visually impaired people in India with first such workshop going on at NAB
Delhi today and tomorrow. The results are encouraging and linux has great
potential to be used here in India. So in order to facilitate the exchange
of views, suggestions, problems and solutions about emacspeak in particular
and linux in general, a new mailing list has been created on googlegroups.
The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may search for emacspeak on
googlegroups page and subscribe or send me a private mail and I can ad you
to the mailing list. However, before you subscribe to the mailing list, you
can start by downloading an image of the oralux project which can be burnt
onto a cd to make it a bootable as well as an instantly  talking linux
program. it can be downloaded from http://oralux.org/ please note that the
file is about 500  MB in size.

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regards,
Aruni.
Home Page: http://aruni100.googlepages.com
Ph: +91 522-4042921. mob: +91 933-584-4700
msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yahoo: aruni100
skype: aruni_sharma


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