[Eug-lug]screen readers and recorders under Linux

2002-10-25 Thread Master O Planets
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

Re: [Eug-lug]screen readers and recorders under Linux

2002-10-25 Thread Kent Loobey
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)

Re: [Eug-lug]screen readers and recorders under Linux

2002-10-25 Thread Cory Petkovsek
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 From, Date,