On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2011 10:05:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I've good luck, because I can skip a lot when watching at the monitor, I > > guess using braille, people have to read much more irrelevant stuff. > > I'm fascinated. How do you read braille from a monitor??!
I've got good eyes and don't have braille ;). But I'm a dyslexic. > My blind friends (even one who can read Braille at a phenomenal rate) all use > text to speech software. Though the point about difficulty scanning still > holds good. Try Orca or so, you can't use it for all applications. Fortunately blind people can use Linux easier than other OS, because there's software with good config files, so they don't need the GUI :). On Linux audio users there are two blind users and they use Hydrogen by setting up this drum machine by it's config file. The GUI can't be used with Orca speech software. I tried Orca with closed eyes, horrible. You and I, we have good luck that we are able to see. I guess impaired people very often need help when using Linux installers. I'm pissed off that the world is made for averaged people only ;), even that I'm more or less averaged myself, so there aren't that much issues for me, excepted of empathy for people who are different. For Linux there is software for children, that shows, that it's possible to give access to the computer for illiterates or mentally retarded, but there is no such software for adults like e.g. http://tuxpaint.org/ I guess illiterates or mentally retarded adults would prefer to use Gimp instead of tuxpaint ;). > That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how you can > use braille to read things on the Internet. A misunderstanding, perhaps regarding to my broken English. My eyes just need + 0.5 or + 0.75 glasses (= + 1.0 for the glasses from the supermarket), so I do have very good eyes. I'm not blind. My issues regarding to reading are caused by dyslexia. So, I'm using a monitor ;). Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307786856.2378.101.camel@debian
