[Hudlug] Re: Gnopernicus, Gnome and Ubuntu

[Tim Schofield]

There are some mailing lists, and other useful info at this site.

http://leb.net/blinux/

This was recommended to me by a blind friend, who uses linux a lot, and she tells me these mailing lists can be very good.

Tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Fowler [mailto:ben.the.mole at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 06 March 2006 12:12
> To: HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group
> Cc: john at sinoda.demon.co.uk
> Subject: [Hudlug] Re: Gnopernicus, Gnome and Ubuntu
> 
> 
> On 2/27/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > [ snip ]
> > I probably wasn't just thinking about accessability for Gnucash, I 
> > would not rule out any alternatives as regards keeping financial 
> > records, with me not using Linux with speech at the moment 
> apart from 
> > Oralux which is quite limited because it is a live CD based on 
> > Gnoppics and uses mostly Emacs which is verry difficult for a Linux 
> > newby even for someone used to shortcut keys, I am not 
> likely to know 
> > lots of applications that are available in Linux whether they are 
> > usable by the Blind or not.
> 
> I want to try keep focus (preferably on one area!); but I am 
> not wishing to decide that focus - quite possibly I would 
> make a mess of doing that. In concrete terms, I would like 
> you, Michael, to consider which areas of computer use present 
> you with actual difficulties, which are most amenable to 
> improvement, and which you would like (enjoy) working on. If 
> you juggle these factors, can you come up with a list of 
> priorities which means something to you, and the rest of us 
> can take these 'from the top'.
> 
> 1. Oralux seems to have a lot of potential, if that is in the 
> running I would be tempted to stick with it.
> 
> 2. As a sighted person, I rate Knoppix and Gnoppix very 
> highly indeed. Do you not?
> 
> 3. Emacs is a good choice, but it very definitely does not 
> suit everyone. Do you know why the emacspeak folk chose to 
> start from emacs? What would following in their footsteps mean to you?
> 
> 4. Does working from a live CD present especial difficulties? 
> Or is it simply inconvenient? As a sighted person, I would 
> find it a little inconvenient, but that means nothing when it 
> does the job such as fixing up a partition table, a file 
> system or shared libraries for me, and is a very big benefit 
> when working on someone else's  machine. Does the fact that 
> it is far harder to mess things up beyond an easy fix not 
> count for anything? I'm guessing that many activities of 
> daily living are inconvenient when blind, does using a live 
> CD really rate against that backgound.
> 
> 5. I don't think that it is fair to characterise emacs as 
> tough for newbies. In fact, learning it as a newby even as 
> your first text editor makes a lot of sense - it is simply 
> the best text editor there is - and you are guaranteed a 
> continuing dividend from the initial investment of time and 
> brainpower.
> 
> 6. I am hoping that you will make contact with other visually 
> handicapped users of linux, and perhaps be prepared to make 
> use of their achievements.
> 
> Ben
> 
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