Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:34:16 +1100 From: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: woohoo Message-ID: <20000324083414.A40513@phoenix.welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000321205234.A81118@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:52:34PM -0800 References: <3.0.32.20000321203811.04cff3c0@mail.vt.edu> <20000321205234.A81118@dragon.nuxi.com>
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all, hello, i realise that freebsd-alpha is probably not the right place to ask, thier never is a right place for me to ask questionsabout how to make freebsd more usable for disabled people, that is those more impeared than the traditional "disabled, i.e. wheelchair" person. but as itseems most of teh cutting edge thinking about freebsd is beingdone here, i feel i might have a chance to ride the wave of new development and catch some ideas as a by product. otherwise, please accapt my apologies and regrets fro yet again wasting your collective time. i would ask that you read on, please. On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:52:34PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:38:12PM -0500, nm wrote: > > I now have: > > > > a stable 24-bit X display... > > a nice mp3 player (xmms)... > > a good web browser (netscape)... > > Don't forget there is now Acrobat Reader for FreeBSD/Alpha too. :-) > (pairs well with Netscape) this may seem to be a silly question, but to those with poor eyes, hands, muscle control, erratic hearing, etc .. anyway. what would be required to run things like netscape and acrobat reader on a text only version of the operating system. i'm thinking that a dec alpha would have the horsepower and a matrox (smeting or other) would have the video punch to pull this off. essentially,i'm thinking of havinf atext baseed commandline line oriented operating system interface with the ability to show pictures and play music, sounds, do voice and so on. maybe even streaming video but that might be a bit ambitious. my reasonsfro this are quite simple, i ama disabled person who finds fidling with all guis as frustrating as trying to find a snowball in side hell. while x11 is not bad it is far far from being "disabled freindly". i've asked around for a few years now and most (really) disabled people would like to see this sort of a development. ny "really disabled" i menat people with multiple disabilities that impact on thier eyes, ears hands and feet so thatt hey cannot easily use normal screens, keyboards, mice and software designed around the "traditional" concept of a disabled person, that is one who cannot walk and is confinded to a wheelchair, but otherwise has full and unimpaered usage of thier uper body, arms hands etcetc. your thoughts, brain storming, ideas would be apreciated. if its not apropriate to clutter up this mailinglist, please feel free to email me directly, at the reply-to: header id. with thanks and warm regards jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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