I know Gweneth and gave her a box with Ubuntu 8.04 running Gnopernicus last year. I gave her a KVM switch to togggle between her XP box running JAWS and the Ubuntu box. She wanted to listen to Thom Hartmann over the Internet. But the on-line radio station, I found, that offered dialup streaming was cutting back on dialup service. That's all she can get at her location (BlueSky wireless was too expensive.)
The radio station I was using, 1480 KPHX, changed their webpage so one had to use a mouse on screen to activate a widget player for dialup. That stopped us from doing anything further. I didn't have the scripting experience to fix that; if it was fixable. I have a couple of blind friends who I tried to sell on Linux, and they are game, to a point. Eventually they returned to a windows environment because they can get help in their community. Brian On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 18:10 -0800, JS Kaplan wrote: > Greets n stuff... > > I met this nice woman at LCC the other day and she has a problem with > moodle and whatever it is she uses for accessibility text to speech > interface, so I was thinking to my self "self, here's one Linux can > do > a good deed, > save the day and, perhaps make somebody some good reference, > experience, > and good feelings. > > She mentioned that someone has given her a Linux box (which works > flawlessly) and as a side note she's > ordering a notebook or netbook PC with Windows 7. So, perhaps the OS > could be saved or another added > or whatever. > > Thing is, I can't help her out due to a conflict of interest and time > constraints. > > Did I mention she's blind? Hence the need for text to speech and > accessibility issues. > > Her name is Gweneth and if anyone is interested in helping a blind > person with her computing problems, > please let me know and I'll give you her info. > > --Kaplan > > *deos enim religuos accepimus, Caesares dedimus* > "The gods were handed down to us, but we created the Caesars > ourselves" > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
