Thanks -- Sometimes I think I am getting in over my head trying to learn but I keep pushing on. If I can assist anyone in questions surrounding the requirements for someont with a visuial impairement ie.(screen maginification, teaders, high constract and reverse colors) feel free to call upon me. If such leads to the devlopment and intergration of such I feel many will benefit. Charlie CERoss Technologies www.cerosstechnologies.com Also I am interested in social networking as to learn and use of FEDORIA and similar systems.
----- Original Message ---- From: Oisin Feeley oisin.feeley@gmail.com To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:50:21 AM Subject: Re: Adaptive Technology
On 3/26/09, Charles Ross rossce_tech@yahoo.com wrote:
Has anyone worked with visually impaired individuals and adaptive solutions with Fedora? I want to learn this and am near total blindness not sure what all is out there in making this OS acessable or how and if the windows bassed software will work within this enviroment. Any insite, ideas or assistance would be most helpful.
I haven't but I've wondered idly about this area for a while and have some bookmarks which I hope will be useful to you.
There used to be a fair number of interesting posts from a "William F. Acker" on speakup and other related technologies. See e.g. this link from mid-2008
http://markmail.org/message/e3ge6326si5ddurr
Similarly Janina Sajka seems to be involved in accessibility issues and was involved with Colin Walters in a thread about how to fix GConf settings so that the interaction between Speakup, orca, GDM and PulseAudio is managed properly. It sounds like she might be worth getting in touch with:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01240.ht...
A much earlier (Fedora 7) post was reported by Rahul Sundaram in Fedora Weekly News:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue102#A_view_of_Linux_as_introduced_by_...
Some (unused) accessibility notes from the Fedora 7 era may or may not be of use: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Accessibility
Good luck, Oisin Feeley