On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:50:21AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Kevin, > Forgive me for not ansering sooner... <snip> > > Here is a not-so-current background piece: > > http://www.hhs48.com/why_linux.html > > You can also get more current info at www.linux-speakup.org > > Many distributions now come with "speakup-modified" kernels permitting > "eyes free" installation and operation. There are other access solutions > besides speakup, but those require that you have a running system before > starting the speech access solution. Speakup is a set of kernel patches > that allows the console to talk from startup to shutdown. Once a system > is running you can switch it to using software speech, but a hardware > synthesizer is required normally. Speakup does not support GUI access, > although both the gnome folks and the KDE folks are working on access > solutions (very slowly). Speakup was developed by blind folks mostly, so > the developers have a stake in its performance. > > I have only used Slackware and Debian myself, and there is nothing in > either distro that bears on the effectiveness of speakup. It works great > in both. I prefer Debian for reasons unrelated to access. (as presumably > you do, too <smile>) > > Chuck Hi Chuck, thanks for the replay. I will check out the link! I guess it is obvious why we choose Debian: the cool red swirl logo! Well, at least I did! <wink> cheers, Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! `$' $' $ $ _ ,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$$$$$b $,d$$b ,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ "' `$ $$' `$ $$ $ $$ggggg$ $ $ $ ,$P"" $ $ $ `$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $ $ `Y$$P'$. `Y$$$$P $$$P"' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$.
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