I have been working with some blind computer users in Eugene and I would
like to do some experimenting in the use of screen readers under Linux.
I found this article, as well as the site, to be of interest of Linux users.
http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-10-09-1
I would
The November issue of Linux Format (page 8, Prestigious award for GNOME
accessibility) has a note on accessibility as implemented in GNOME.
Specifically it mentions Gnopernicus, an extension to the GNOME2 desktop
for blind or visually impared users, and the GNOME Onscreen Keyboard (GOK)
I've used festival a little bit. It isn't a screen reader per se, it
will read text you feed it. For instance, I use mutt for my mail
client. Mutt has a pipe command (|) that will output the email to a
program. I can pipe it to a shell script that I wrote that filters out
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