Chris Dolan wrote:
On Feb 14, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Chris Dolan wrote:
I'm currently helping a local blind/deaf user get started with Fink. We're hoping to port the Linux BRLTTY braille translator to OSX, but this is new territory for me and this user is new to OSX, so we're learning things like the cmdline installer for DMGs, etc. Has anyone else explored this territory? Apple's accessibility page (http://www.apple.com/accessibility/) is interesting, but not very helpful.
Chris
The response to this was not quite deafening, so let me try a different tack...
I helped a blind/deaf user get started with Fink, and he loves it. He wrote up a mini-HOWTO for other people to get started with Fink without a mouse or monitor. I'm looking for a volunteer to help me get that document formatted for the website.
Thanks, Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703
Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software (http://www.media-landscape.com/) and partners in the revolutionary Croquet project (http://www.opencroquet.org/)
Apparently nobody had done anything similar, so that would explain why the response wasn't there. but it's great that this HOWTO has been provided.
I certainly can help you get it formatted appropriately. The best place to start (I've found) is to copy one of the existing doc trees (e.g. users-guide or x11) to be the folder to contain a new doc, clean out all of the files other than the base English XML file, the Makefiles, and any .inc files. Then generate your new document out of this remaining XML file--that way the doc styles are already known.
I use Morphon XML Editor, which keeps track of all of the document styles and runs validity checks after every text entry--this makes it easy to ensure that the document is valid.
Feel free to ask me if you have any further questions.
--AH
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