Are their any audio tutorials about gettings started with VINUX? Frank
-----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Donald Marang Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:22 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Screen reader with Linux I guess the fate of Orca, just like so many other Sun technologies and products, such as Open Office and Java, are in limbo! All will be supported by the open source community. However, possibly being without the corporate backing things will be different. Orca still lives on and there are several screen reader possibilities in Linux. I think Vinux 2.0 had 4 different screen readers configured. Orca using SpeechDispatcher drivers is the default. I do not know if driver is the proper term for SpeechDispatcher. It seems to be a favorite speech infrastructure that many of the screen readers can use. It is not the only way to set it up. Linux is even worse than Windows when it comes to the realm of possibilities and fractured communities. Vinux developers are busy on Vinux 3.0. It looks very promissing. It will be based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.4, which will be released in April. They have a lot of work being done on accessibility of the Ubuntu release in April and the customizations for Vinux. Vinux 3.0 is expected to be released shortly after unless a major accessibility issue is discovered. Vinux 1.x was also based on Ubuntu, but it was decided that the basic Ubuntu had too many stability issues with speech. Vinux 2 was therefore moved to a stable Debian release for better stability of accessibility components and application support. Unfortunately, this slightly sacrifices bleeding new technologies and better hardware support. Usually this becomes apparent with wireless network and the latest hardware. This time major accessibility issues have been resolved even before Ubuntu is released. Vinux is located at: http://vinux.org.uk Don Marang -------------------------------------------------- From: "Silpa Mallipeddi" <silpa.samartha...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 12:55 AM To: <ricjust...@jaws-users.com> Cc: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Subject: [Blind-Computing] Screen reader with Linux > Hi Ric: > > I heard that people use ORCA on Linux, but after Oracle had purchased > Sun, they laid off ORCA. > > So, I would like to know if there is any screen reader to work on Linux? > > Thanks and regards, > Silpa. > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
