Looking for a Programming Project which would really benefit blind people

[Andor Demarteau]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Scott Berry wrote:

 > Hey John how feasible would it be to do a front end to cd record like
 > cdw.  I can't seem to get the darned thing working.
easy enough, that could be a complished by a nice shell-script.
however cdrecord is well-documented.
note that if you have an ide-burner you need the ide-scsi emulation for
cdrecord to work

 > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004,
 > John J. Boyer wrote:
 >
 > > Will,
 > >
 > > There are already lots of screenreaders fro Linux, and they are all free.
 > > I'm using brltty myself, since i use braille. Others use Speakup or
 > > Emacspeak. Fedora may already include some of these, but I don't know
 > > since I haven't messed with it. I'm using Redhat 8.0. Perhaps what is
 > > needed is an installation disk that will produce braille and/or speech
 > > immediately, so that a blind person could carry out the installation.
 > > There are others on this list with experience in this area. I'm looking
 > > for an actual programming project.
 > >
 > > John
 > >
 > >
 > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 herzog at frontiernet.net wrote:
 > >
 > > > Well, I am sighted, and I work with blind people to try and get them going
 > > > on computers.  So far it has been all win 98 and JAWS, as there is lots of
 > > > support;, and I can see enough to detect what the problem is when many
 > > > trouble screens won't read, or go away.  So the sited stuff is useful. I
 > > > have tried, and use redhat8 myself, but I only know of one blind person who
 > > > uses Linux, and she has lots of personal help.
 > > > So I think the big need is for Fedora, the new Linux hoopla, to be working
 > > > with voices, preferably cheap or free.
 > > > The Fedora list is nearly 100 messages per day, a snow job, and not yet
 > > > ready for prime time players.
 > > > There is where to work!
 > > > Will
 > > > At 05:17 AM 2/25/04, you wrote:
 > > > >Hello,
 > > > >
 > > > >I'm blind myself, and I'm hapiest when I have a good programming project.
 > > > >So I'm looking for suggestions for programs that would really benefit
 > > > >blind people. I think a text-mode program, possibly using the curses
 > > > >library, would be most appropriate. I've tested Gnome and Gnopernicus, but
 > > > >they really aren't ready for normal use by blind persons, at least not for
 > > > >those who use braille displays.
 > > > >
 > > > >On a related subject, I really can't see any inherent advantage to a GUI
 > > > >unless you can actually SEE the screen. All the usability features can be
 > > > >implemented in text mode.
 > > > >
 > > > >Thanks,
 > > > >
 > > > >
 > > > >--
 > > > >John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
 > > > >Computers to Help People, Inc.
 > > > >http://www.chpi.org
 > > > >825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
 > > > >
 > > > >
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