Dennis,
It was on the 11pm news (cant remeber which channel...) The non-windows,
non-apple laptop was used with a pair of sunglasses with what looked like a
ccd camera mounted to one of the lenses. This guy was actually driving
(well.. in a closed parking lot... they didnt show him doing any tricks or
anything... )
EFN has a visaidpa machine in the office, Ray (the front desk guy...) has
set it up and maintained it for about 5 years now... It uses windows and some
special software (pcwebspeak) to speak the website to the viewer. Its pretty
cool, but some websites really suck (specially if they have lame alt tags!).
Its available to the public during normal business hours.
Jamie
Sometime just before Thursday 20 June 2002 11:39 pm Dennis Eberl Wrote
about:[EUG-LUG:3044] Re: Who else saw the blind guy driving using a laptop
running X
: On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 11:36 PM, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
: > Who else saw the blind guy driving using a laptop running X (gnome, ...)
: > on tv tonite? it was cool... it looked like a redhat desktop though....
: >
: > Jamie
:
: <snip>
: I didn't see it. (I don't really watch TV much anymore.) I assume
: this was some form of assistive technology and not a bad joke. I
: am very interested in the use of computers to help the blind (as
: opposed to the visually impaired). Can you tell me (out of band if
: you'd like, directly to my e-mail address) what you saw. I am
: very interested.
:
: Also, this to the list as a whole, is does anyone know of any
: attempt to help the blind in Lane County acquire computer skills
: and the ability to use the web. I am interested in this kind of
: thing.
:
: Thanks, Jamie, and to anyone else who cares to reply.
:
: Dennis Eberl
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