Next Monday (11/10/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once
again meet to hear Omer Zak and Ori Idan talk about:
Accessibility in Linux
After the lecture, which is planned for an hour an a half, there will be
time for pre - "Welcome to Linux" discussions.
Omer Zak, who is deaf from birth, has been playing with computers since
age 12. Twenty years ago he developed an Hebrew terminal program for
Commodore 64, which allowed the deaf in Israel to independently use the
phone. Four years ago he repeated the feat, allowing the deaf in Israel to
use cellular FAX machines in Hebrew.
Omer has been member of the Linux-IL mailing list right from the
beginning. He contributed some improvements to Dov Grobgeld's FriBidi
package. He has membership card No. 26 in "Hamakor". He works part time
for Ozicom Communications Ltd., a software house managed by a deaf
entrepreneur and staffed mostly by deaf persons.
Omer will be accompanied by an interpreter, since he speaks with a "deaf
accent".
Ori Idan had worked as a consultant for "Migdalor", an institute for the
blind in Kiriat Haim, for acouple of months. He has given a few courses to
teachers there. Later on, he eorked working as an agent in Israel for
computer equipment for blind users.
In addition, Ori has developed (in the DOS days) a word processor for
blind users.
Slides should be available before the lecture.
We meet in the Technion, Taub 3. See http://www.haifux.org.org/where/html
for arrival details.
Attendance is free, and you are all invited!
We are always looking for interesting lecture ideas, and we will soon
begin to schedule the next season!
Have a subject
you want to talk about? Or a subject you'd like to hear someone else
talk about? email us.
Orna.
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Orna Agmon http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/
ICQ: 348759096
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