Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2008-01-02 Thread Sameer Verma
Mitch Bradley wrote: David W Hogg wrote: On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful for those with impaired sight (some of my

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, We have been working on a simple screen reader for the XO and have made some headway. We have ported and customized eSpeak for the XO. A text to speech server has been written and methods exposed through Dbus . I have documented the work done till now at

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread David W Hogg
On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful for those with impaired sight (some of my colleagues need to immensely magnify images, diagrams,

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
David W Hogg wrote: On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful for those with impaired sight (some of my colleagues need to immensely

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2007-12-30 Thread Duane King
Espeak works fine, the XO just did not have the correct sound system config installed because somebody forgot to enable OSS emulation in ALSA. I hope you did not waste a lot of time editing the code for Espeak to get around this bug, I hope you did not edit it to make it pipe out sound data to