Accessibility hardware for the blind
I'm teaching the Open Source Unix certification track at NJIT (using FreeBSD 6.2) to a group of physically challenged students. Some of my current students have extremely low vision and I have several candidates for the next rotation of the classes that have similar low-vision problems or are completely sightless. I need to know if an audio solution exists (in hardware or software) that will speak monitor output. I need something that will work independently of X windows. I've tried using gnopernicus in both KDE and Gnome and I've never gotten its audio component to work. I can turn on KDE's talking tools, but it only speaks commands and entered text in specific applications (like Koffice). I need a screen reader that will speak the entire screen (and terminal windows). I haven't found a software solution that addresses all the needs of a spoken command line environment so I'm looking for a hardware solution (appliance or device) that will speak the screen, but I haven't found one, yet. One of my students was an employee of ATT in their Unix division in NJ and is considering a job-offer from a consultant who will need him to administer servers using WebMin and a command line environment, but screen readers such as JAWS that work under Windows, do a poor job of interpreting WebMin and will not read the I/O from a terminal window created by Putty. So, in addtion to needing something that will speak console I/O, I need something that will properly interpret a Webmin environment. One portion of the course does teach using Lynx as a browser and Webmin (if one uses the simplest theme) will work in that environment. Any ideas, experiences, or recommendations that you have to share would be very much appreciated. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessibility hardware for the blind
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:04:31 +1000 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:21:58 -0400 Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I haven't found a software solution that addresses all the needs of a spoken command line environment so I'm looking for a hardware solution (appliance or device) that will speak the screen, but I haven't found one, yet. [...] Hi Tim, I'm always surprised by the seemingly void for this kind of support in OSS. It's not an easy thing to do, and possibly there is a lack of standards (what with all the different X toolkits,etc...)... This is important project (and fully terminal-oriented): http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html Nikola Lečić ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessibility hardware for the blind
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:21:58 -0400
Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to know if an audio solution exists (in hardware or software)
that will speak monitor output. I need something that will work
independently of X windows. I've tried using gnopernicus in both KDE
and Gnome and I've never gotten its audio component to work. I can turn
on KDE's talking tools, but it only speaks commands and entered text in
specific applications (like Koffice). I need a screen reader that will
speak the entire screen (and terminal windows).
I haven't found a software solution that addresses all the needs of a
spoken command line environment so I'm looking for a hardware solution
(appliance or device) that will speak the screen, but I haven't found
one, yet.
[...]
Hi Tim,
I'm always surprised by the seemingly void for this kind of support in OSS. It's
not an easy thing to do, and possibly there is a lack of standards (what with
all the different X toolkits,etc...)...
There seems to be a FFox extension to read the pages, Fire Fox,
http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ , which may good enough for webmin.
You may want to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader and, possibly
more to the point, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers
Let us know what you come up with :)
Regards,
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