On 5/23/2010 11:26 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote: > There isn't a kernel module in this case since they are using sane. > I regularly build and install kernel modules without needing to reboot. > Maybe these notes were for Windows? That is the only explanation I can > come up with to explain this.
I went and read which reveals that is a Linux solution. I have observed that scanner interfaces are, fragile at best, and I'm not surprised they want to reboot with the device turned on. > Fortunately for me, I don't need this app since I already have a functional > ocr solution . > in Linux. > My solution involves a few shell commands. It seems much simpler than this > app in any case. from reading the documentation, this application looks very simple and it is aimed at visually impaired users. if you can use a keyboard, this shouldn't be a problem. As for a few shell commands, that's a reasonably inaccessible especially from speech recognition. Shell commands fail accessibility for a couple reasons. First the discoverability. You have to know that command exists in order to find out what it does unless you happen to remember it. I think I know of about 30 commands in the shell environment and I need to look at the man pages on 28 of them but I do anything more than the basics. Yet there are hundreds of shell commands that will probably do what I need except, I don't know they exist and I don't know what they do. The second way they fail is presentation. The name of the command, how it's invoked etc. it is not accessible either to speech recognition or text-to-speech. The last one, text-to-speech, may do a more credible job at presenting garbled text (command names, commandline arguments etc.) than speech recognition will when generating the same. You are correct however that once you have a CLI idiom memorized it does become easier to use because you associate a concept with a more complicated structure and then just use the concept as shorthand for that structure. --- eric -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
