Hi Adam, Quote Correct me if I'm wrong but Linux works quite well for visually impaired, right? End quote
Yes and no. The shell based applications work extremely well with speech with speakup, yasr, etc... The gui x-windows applications are very much hit and miss. To be accessible with a screen reader like the gui screen reader orca a graphical application under Linux must meet strict accessibility guidelines such as be compatible with gtk2 accessibility standards, use the accessibility tool kit (atk,) and because of this apps in Linux are hit or miss. Anything written prier to the guidelines went in to effect forget it. Anything written in the past couple of years or so has some accessibility. The apps that work well work well, and those without the guidelines and access support are hopeless. Some distributions such as Ubuntu are aware of these short comings and pack as many accessible applications in there distribution as they can as well as use the accessible Gnome dekstop as the default desktop, and comes packed with the orca screen reader as a added bonus. Quote How well does webbrowsers work? How do you deal with frames on webpages? End quote The text based web bbrowsers are fine. The graphical web browsers have some accessibility hang ups. A linux user wishing to browse the web under a graphical environment like Gnome would do best to have Gnome 2.16 with the very latest test builds of Firefox to get reasonable access to the internet. That said Firefox has a cool way to toggle through frames. I believe f6 takes you to the next frame and shift f6 takes you to the pprier frame under Linux. Quite nice and handy. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
