From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 07:04:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6CD16A400 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69ED513C44B for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 1738 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2007 17:04:36 +1000 Received: from 203-214-138-113.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.214.138.113) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jun 2007 17:04:36 +1000 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:04:31 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Tim Kellers Message-ID: <20070601170431.5b4eaaba@localhost> In-Reply-To: <465FACF6.5010906@wallnet.com> References: <465FACF6.5010906@wallnet.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Tim Kellers Subject: Re: Accessibility hardware for the blind X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:04:37 -0000 On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:21:58 -0400 Tim Kellers 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.