Hi Tzafrir, two reasons cause me to try and examine the accessibility of X-Windows environment. 1. As you probably saw in my first message, I'm a software engineer seeking for a new job. As Linux is my work environment, my policy is that the more software and environments I can work with, the more advantage I gain. I already was in a situation that when I said that I cannot work with X-Windows, but text-mode only, the interviewer of the specific company claimed that for the proposed position, working in a X-windows environment is a must, so they cannot hire me. So, at least I want to examine this area and see to what extent do I have accessibility. 2. If I give as an example the internet browser in text mode, the only one I knows of is Lynx. As far as I know, Lynx does not support, for example, Java scripts, which makes some web sites inaccessible for me. Those sites are totally accessible when I use Internet explorer on Microsoft Windows and I would not like to loose accessibility to those sites. If I could gain accessibility to X-Windows, I'm sure I could continue using a browser like Mozila and would not loose accessibility to those sites. Also, using a true word processor, instead of just an editor is another example. Rafi.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: this may sound somewhat off-topic, but please read > > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:14:43AM +0200, Rafi Cohen wrote: > > > 3. Concerning Linux: there are 2 options, one being a text only > mode and the > > other, X-Windows. > > For the text mode, there is an open source driver supporting > nerly all the > > existing braile displays and it's called brltty. you may find > details at: > > http://mielke.cc/brltty. > > > > 4. The X-Windows environment is the more problematic one. > > Up to now, I did not hear of any official announcement for any > accessibility > > success for the KDE interface, althoug I know that in Sun > Microsystems there > > is a team working on this issue. > > Concerning Gnome, there is an accessibility software called > Gnopernicus. For > > details go to: > > http://www.baum.ro. However, I did not have feedback about how > good it is > > and to which extent it gives accessability. > > The following has to be asked: > > Considering the fact that Unix has high-quality software for its > text-mode console (and terminals in general), and many programs are > actually tty-oriented (or can easily behave so), what is currently > missing for you in text-mode? > > For instance: I would check 'nmh' or even 'mail' for mailing, as it is > more tty-oriented. Same goes for (that's right) ex, after proper > training. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
