Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
Hi Prashant This topic is too vast to fit in a single email. Clearly you and your team would have to do some amount of research. I’ll just start with what I consider as the basic stuff. To begin with, you need to find out what variant of Red Hat platform is going to be installed by the government. There are 2 main editions for desktops: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora. While Red Hat Enterprise Linux has to be purchased and comes with a subscription for technical support, Fedora is entirely free and developed by the Red Hat community. Also, Red Hat Enterprise edition is largely based on the Fedora distribution, but is suppose to be far more stable. So, which variant is Maharashtra Government going with? There are 3 popular assistive tools available on Linux for visually impaired users and these 3 can be run on all major Linux distributions. Moreover, a user can perform all the common tasks –text editing, checking emails, surfing, writing programs- using any of these 3 tools. Orca: judging by the people mentioning this one on this list, it seems to be the most popular one in India. Orca is meant for dealing with GUI applications on Linux like Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. Orca is somewhat similar to the Windows based screen readers. Unlike what most people believe, Orca can run on any Linux distribution, in fact it comes already installed on most major distributions. On Ubuntu, one can easily start Orca just before boot options on the live CD. This is useful for independently installing the distribution. This is why Ubuntu is more popular than other Linux distributions. Emacspeak: This provides speech for an application called Emacs, but Emacspeak is not a screen reader. Emacs is a very powerful text editor with many extensions and you can do pretty much anything in it. See the following case study to get an idea. http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/smithsonian/study.html Speakup: this is a screen reader for the Linux console. Many Linux users prefer to do tasks through the command line. To train your students, you should probably start with the use of these assistive tools and their interaction with popular open source applications. Till the time you don’t know the exact Red Hat platform that would be in use, you should start with Vinux, a Linux distribution specially compiled for the visually impaired. http://vinux.org.uk/ Perhaps you may also like to contact CDAC as they are in your city. http://www.cdacmumbai.in They are involved in open source accessibility, though I’m not sure if they could be of any direct help to you. Checkout the following web page for information on their projects in this area. http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/research_and_publications/projects/enhancing_accessibility_for_foss_desktops Regards --- On Mon, 8/9/10, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: From: Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com Subject: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 12:49 PM Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
Hello, orca works on Ubantu and not on Redhat. On 8/9/10, Jayant Mahajan mejay...@gmail.com wrote: ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
ORCA works best on Ubuntu, although it can be installed and made to work on other Linux distributions as well. - Original Message - From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula sriniv...@srinivasu.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility Hello, orca works on Ubantu and not on Redhat. On 8/9/10, Jayant Mahajan mejay...@gmail.com wrote: ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
Dear all, Thanks for the repsones. Is anybody in your knowledge using screen reader with red hat linux gnome version? i have learned that in maharashtra, state goverment is moving towards red hat linux so it is important for us to figure out its accessiblity and provide training to our computer users. awaiting more inputs and help. prashant naik On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de wrote: ORCA works best on Ubuntu, although it can be installed and made to work on other Linux distributions as well. - Original Message - From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula sriniv...@srinivasu.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility Hello, orca works on Ubantu and not on Redhat. On 8/9/10, Jayant Mahajan mejay...@gmail.com wrote: ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
Prashant, As Geetha said, there would be possibilities to make Orca work with Redhad Linux. Also, you may want to explore emacspeak written by TV Raman. Also, you may contact Krishnakant Mane, who is from Mumbai. Off late he seem to have done good work in the area of Linux. I will send his contact info off the list. Regards, Vasu On 8/9/10, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Thanks for the repsones. Is anybody in your knowledge using screen reader with red hat linux gnome version? i have learned that in maharashtra, state goverment is moving towards red hat linux so it is important for us to figure out its accessiblity and provide training to our computer users. awaiting more inputs and help. prashant naik On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de wrote: ORCA works best on Ubuntu, although it can be installed and made to work on other Linux distributions as well. - Original Message - From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula sriniv...@srinivasu.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility Hello, orca works on Ubantu and not on Redhat. On 8/9/10, Jayant Mahajan mejay...@gmail.com wrote: ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
Just to add, Insight is an intiative from the Kerala State IT mission and SPACE. using only free and open source software to educate and train differently abled in Kerala on ICT. They have based their training etc heavily on orca . You can get in touch with James Mathew ( ja...@space-kerala.org ) to know more details on how they use it along with different open source softwares and platforms. Also from their website ... an audio tutorial for orca. http://insight.kerala.gov.in/audio-tutorial-for-orca/ Regards Tom On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Srinivasu Chakravarthula sriniv...@srinivasu.org wrote: Prashant, As Geetha said, there would be possibilities to make Orca work with Redhad Linux. Also, you may want to explore emacspeak written by TV Raman. Also, you may contact Krishnakant Mane, who is from Mumbai. Off late he seem to have done good work in the area of Linux. I will send his contact info off the list. Regards, Vasu On 8/9/10, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Thanks for the repsones. Is anybody in your knowledge using screen reader with red hat linux gnome version? i have learned that in maharashtra, state goverment is moving towards red hat linux so it is important for us to figure out its accessiblity and provide training to our computer users. awaiting more inputs and help. prashant naik On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Geetha Shamanna gee...@millernorbert.de wrote: ORCA works best on Ubuntu, although it can be installed and made to work on other Linux distributions as well. - Original Message - From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula sriniv...@srinivasu.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility Hello, orca works on Ubantu and not on Redhat. On 8/9/10, Jayant Mahajan mejay...@gmail.com wrote: ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.inwith the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog
Re: [AI] Red Hat Linux accessibility
OH OK- sorry i did not know about it - then what is the solution for red hat? regds jayant On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Srinivasu Chakravarthula sriniv...@srinivasu.org wrote: Hello, orca works on Ubantu and not on Redhat. On 8/9/10, Jayant Mahajan mejay...@gmail.com wrote: ORCA screen reader works the best on Linux On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Prashant Naik pran...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Please guide me on Red Hat Linux accessibility for blind. Its operating system and applications accessibility. Which screen reader and screen magnifier program works on this GNOME open source OS. Thanks, Prashant Naik Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in -- Sent from my mobile device Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Mobile: +91 990 081 0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://www.learnaccessibility.org Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
