[Hudlug] Help for Michael

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

Hi anne!
Thanks for your message.
Was pleased to actually speak to people face to face in the know on Linux 
what with me livingt alone and probably knowing more about Linux than my 
parents.
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From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
To: "HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group" <hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: [Hudlug] Help for Michael


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> Dave Fisher has an interest in accessibility and will try to help.
>
> Anne
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> I'll try to attend and to take a run through Oralinux and Gnopernicus
> before doing so, but I've yet to see anything like a click-and-go
> solution for Linux.
>
> I've done a bit of teaching and consulting on web accessibility, but I've
> no great experience of driving Linux by sound (have done the usual Jaws
> stuff on Windows).
>
> It's something I've been trying to get into, but to tell you the truth,
> it's been pretty difficult to even get started.
>
> I don't have access to a hardware speech synthesiser and I've yet to
> find a software synthesiser approach which takes less than a weekend to
> configure on my Debian or Ubuntu systems, i.e. I've not yet been able to
> put aside an entire week to collate, then work through all of the
> disparate scraps of 'notes' and bloggery that constitute the
> 'documentation'.
>
> I believe that there are RPMs for Emacspeak and the IBM Via Voice speech
> synthesiser which can form the core of a sound driven system, but the
> last time I looked they were packaged for ancient (pre-RHEL) versions of
> Red Hat (no use to me, and maybe not much use to anyone else).
>
> At the end of my last wasted weekend following the Emacspeak Howto, I
> resolved to evaluate Oralinux before trying anything else.  Since I now
> have a motivation to do so quickly, I'll try my best to bring something
> useful to the meeting.
>
> Both the Oralinux distro and, especially, the Gnopernicus interface for
> Gnome are far from mature.  As usual, they are just 2 of the more
> promising projects among a vast ocean of wheel re-inventing initatives.
> What the community really needs are programmers who are clever enough to
> integrate and package the useful stuff that already exists and works in
> isolation.
>
> If there is anyone else in WYLUG with an interest in doing something
> about this stuff, please get in touch to see if there is anything
> practical we can do to improve the situation.
>
> Dave
> http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/web/website_accessibility.html
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