Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:30:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: and one more thought. Could it be possible to write a video driver that is essentially a dummy? A blind user does need X to actually draw on the screen

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:39:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:13:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all the different DTE install CDs.

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Is there a standard sound interface? sort of like there is the vesa driver in video that works with (essentiall) *every* video card? The Sound Blaster 16 used to be the standard. and one more thought. Could it be

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: and one more thought. Could it be possible to write a video driver that is essentially a dummy? A blind user does need X to actually draw on the screen (unless they're working with a sighted assistant). It only needs X to

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get them installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am totally blind that's the next project I have in mind. The orca package may or may not be in the grml archives, I'll have to check or perhaps

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14/04/2008, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get them installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am totally blind that's the next project I have in mind. The orca package may or may not be in

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:55:47PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: On 14/04/2008, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get them installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am totally blind that's the next

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Brian McKee
On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on most boxes and comes up with voice prompts automatically. Ideally, it would be a whole new installer with

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:04:39PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on most boxes and comes up with voice prompts

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:13:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on most boxes and comes up with

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-30 Thread Joey Schulze
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Suzy, I am forwarding your request to the Debian-user mailing list, as that would be a better place to ask. The Debian-project list is for questions about the Debian project and not for help with using Debian. A link to [EMAIL PROTECTED] could also be a good idea, since

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:40:06AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Suzy, I am forwarding your request to the Debian-user mailing list, as that would be a better place to ask. The Debian-project list is for questions about the Debian project and not for help with using

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:06:28PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:11:13PM +, Suzy Hesketh wrote: I am registered blind but I do have some limited sight. I have never used Debian but I have looked at Dream. My IRC administrator uses Debian and so does my friend who

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/30/2008 12:29 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:06:28PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: [...] As root, do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select the lower screen resolutions. Do you want to reduce the resolution? I would have thought the the higher the resolution, the

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-29 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Suzy, I am forwarding your request to the Debian-user mailing list, as that would be a better place to ask. The Debian-project list is for questions about the Debian project and not for help with using Debian. Cheers, Kev On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:11:13PM +, Suzy Hesketh wrote: Hi I am

Re: Reg Blind

2008-03-29 Thread Mumia W..
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:11:13PM +, Suzy Hesketh wrote: Hi I am registered blind but I do have some limited sight. I have never used Debian but I have looked at Dream. My IRC administrator uses Debian and so does my friend who runs the UK server and he has asked me to be an Operator