[Hudlug] gnopernicus problem

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

Hi!
I think I may be able to work out why you have doubts about Totally Blind 
people using GUI in Linux.
I suppose the same was thought about Windows until computer users went from 
DOS to Windows.
Until I used HAL at RNC in Hereford and at home Jaws and now Windoweyes, I 
pretty much came from a #DOS environment where everything was command line 
based.
Although in theory having a knowledge of commands in DOS which have slight 
differences in Linux, the main problem with command line stuff is the 
limited options I have for screenreaders if I am going to stick with Ubuntu 
because there are only Emacspeak and Speakup, the latter which hasn't yet 
been packaged for Ubuntu for it to be patched into the system.
As Emacspeak is the only real option, the problem is emacs and Emacspeak are 
not the easiest thing for a newby to learn despite my knowledge of DOS 
commands and I reckon I would probably need to constantly look at the Emacs 
and Emacspeak documentation for every task I wanted to achieve.
There are talking Linux distros ie Oralux and even GRML which do use Speakup 
but I am not sure if they can be made to run as other than live distros. The 
latest version of Oralux now seems to support software speech and from 
testing it on my desktop I did manage to get GRML to speak which is slightly 
tricky as you have to count before typing the commands for software speech 
when the PC boots and I am not sure of what GRMl would have given me access 
to as I hadn't yet worked out the Speakup commands.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Fowler" <ben.the.mole at gmail.com>
To: "HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group" <hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Hudlug] gnopernicus problem


> On 17/06/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> ... a sound card problem may be the reason why I am having problems
>> with Gnopernicus starting in Dapper on my laptop [ snip ]
>
> Yes. At first glance it does seem relevant. I will see if I can follow
> along with the work that that page is about; and we need to check it
> the next time we meet - the next meeting is in two weeks time, July
> the 3rd.
>
> As you know, I have my doubts about a totally blind person using a GUI
> at all, though it is obviously valuable for you to try out Gnome and
> gnopernicus; but fixing this problem could make all the difference.
>
> Ben
>
> _______________________________________________
> Hudlug mailing list - http://hud.lug.org.uk/
> Hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk  Questions to: hudlug-owner at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hudlug