On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:20:38AM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: > ya know, I do some of those tasks virtually blind folded, lol > ok ok, so I saw the funny side of that statement. > no pun intended of course, > but I agree, some formal linux courses would be good. > I want to know however, > would tthere be concessions for blind people like myself to be able to > use a speakup enabled kernel image?
I have nothing to do with the courses, so I can't comment on what will actually happen, but I'd presume that assuming you could fulfill the stated objectives of the subjects, you could negotiate something with the TAFE. One of the things Universities have (and I think TAFE has something similar) is that if you are unable to complete the regular curriculum for whatever reason, they have to work with you to find some other reasonable means to allow you to satisfy the requirements. I guess "reasonable" wouldn't cover, say, a quadruplegic who wanted to get a brickie's trade cert, but certainly using a text-to-speech gateway and doing more of the tasks on the command line should pass (IMO). > and as gnopernicus isn't ready for prime time yet, would the doing of > most if not all tasks from the command line be acceptable? > I mean there isn't something in the gui that can't be done via the cli, I've always found it a royal pain to edit images with only a keyboard, but I'm well aware that it can be done. I'm pretty sure there's none of that in these courses (although there might be). For the LPI courses, though, you will have a major problem - last time I looked the tests had to be taken using some Windows software installed at a testing centre. Odds-on it's not (a) text-to-speech enabled, and (b) bloody difficult to use without a mouse. Looks like you'll need a helper for those. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
