Julien Claassen wrote: > OK, I decided to do a quickie on-list, because I think it might be of > interest. This is about blind people and screenreaders. If your not > interested, just stop here. No ladish relevance in here. :-) > You can use Linux perfectly without any screenreader like Orca or > Adriana (Adriane?). Linux offers so many text-based applications, that > a blind person can easily stick to the commandline only. > For the commandline you only need a braille-display driver. There > are two of them: brltty (currently maintained and Debian standard, > also needed for Orca) and SBl (SuSE Blinux). Not sure if the latter is > still maintained. > And yes, if you need to rely on Javascript and other interactive > goodies of the web, you would most certainly want a screenreader. The > same goes for having to read AND write WORD or OFFICE documents. > Reading is no problem, writing is the barrier. :-) > Still I'm not sure how much a screenreader would help with the big > audio apps. My knowledge is, that some of them bring their own > widgets, which Orca finds dificult, and they sometimes use other > purely grapical means of control. The latter is true for at least some > aspects. > Sorry, iff I didn't tell you anything new or interesting. I just > thought, it might be the right time to brag a little. :-) > Warm regards > Julien
It's important :) we're talking about audio and everybody able to see today, can become blind tomorrow ;). Anyway applications should have comfortable features for people who are able to see (I'm able to see and I like some comfortable graphical issues ;)), but it shouldn't be forgotten that seeing shouldn't be needed to make music ;) ... we're listening with our ears and not our eyes. Thanks for your advice :). Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
