Hello everybody, My name is Mike and I'm a blind user of the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. I am also a developer.
I have created a mailing list for visually-impaired users of the Raspberry Pi and the members are discussing how to get some kind of screen-reader to work on the Raspi. The desktop installed on some those Linux distros which include a desktop, is lxde. As visually impaired Linux users we are familiar with using the Orca screen-reader which runs on the Gnome desktop. I have done some reading about lxde and as far as I can tell, even if we were to get Orca to run on the Raspi, it will not provide spoken accessibility in lxde because lxde does not include the atk. Am I correct in my assumptions? If I can find a direction and some help to decide what I need to do, I may be able to produce some custom components for lxde to run on the Raspi to either 'hook' into Orca, or to provide accessibility via some other source of text-to-speech. Any help or advice anybody can give me would be very welcome. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982 'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's Razor Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom: http://nvda-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
