Hello all
This mailinglist is very low-volume and high-content. An excellent
combination.
I've been walking around with a bee in my bonnet, and it occurred to
me that maybe you guys could help. A friend of mine is blind. He is
using Window-Eyes with Windows95. From what I've seen, he was more
able using Wordperfect 5.1 on DOS -- attempting to navigate the GUI
aurally is a huge hindrance.
He is a literature student with no interest in computers for their
own sake. If he can write documents, use email, and surf the web, he
would be content. In fact, if he could simply write, he would be
content. But I believe that email and Internet could change his life.
Here is my question: wouldn't Emacspeak solve his problems?
(ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/raman/emacspeak;
article by the author:
http://www.ddj.com/editorial/1997/raman.htm)
Would it be possible for non-specialists to set up a 100% stable
Linux installation with Emacspeak as main application, with drivers
for his speech synth & braille printer?
Thanks for any ideas & advice,
--jean
