hi there, currently I'm undertaking the certificate 4 network management at the western sydney institute of tafe, and I've fo9und tafe from cso's to head teachers to disabilities coordinators and the like to be most helpful.
my note taker, is indeed allowed to move the mouse for me if something is inaccessable as I found out in my first semester. anyways, that's just to backup what you said below matt. Thus spake Matthew Palmer, > 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 -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!" EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
