Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:04:31 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: Re: Accessibility hardware for the blind Message-ID: <20070601170431.5b4eaaba@localhost> In-Reply-To: <465FACF6.5010906@wallnet.com> References: <465FACF6.5010906@wallnet.com>
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:21:58 -0400 Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> wrote: > I need to know if an audio solution exists (in hardware or software) > that will speak monitor output. I need something that will work > independently of X windows. I've tried using gnopernicus in both KDE > and Gnome and I've never gotten its audio component to work. I can turn > on KDE's talking tools, but it only speaks commands and entered text in > specific applications (like Koffice). I need a screen reader that will > speak the entire screen (and terminal windows). > > I haven't found a software solution that addresses all the needs of a > spoken command line environment so I'm looking for a hardware solution > (appliance or device) that will speak the screen, but I haven't found > one, yet. [...] Hi Tim, I'm always surprised by the seemingly void for this kind of support in OSS. It's not an easy thing to do, and possibly there is a lack of standards (what with all the different X toolkits,etc...)... There seems to be a FFox extension to read the pages, Fire Fox, http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ , which may good enough for webmin. You may want to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader and, possibly more to the point, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers Let us know what you come up with :) Regards, _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient." Dalai Lama. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.
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