Linux and gui

Vasile Radu vradu at constanta.astral.ro
Sun Oct 30 17:12:10 UTC 2005


so!
I never tried to build my own copy of gnopernicus
I always use the version which comes with my distro so I am not sure that I 
have the newest version
but in gnopernicus 0.9.12
in sun mozilla you only have to press f7 to bget in carret mode
and after this it will work properly!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hank smith" <hanksmith4 at earthlink.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: Linux and gui


> have they improved on mazilla?
> last I heard you had to do some keyboard commands to throw it in to carit 
> mode
> has this been fixed?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vasile Radu" <vradu at constanta.astral.ro>
> To: "hank smith" <hanksmith4 at earthlink.net>; "Linux for blind general 
> discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux and gui
>
>
>> also!
>> Exists a version of mozilla accessible with gnopernicus
>> and I am verry impresed about it...
>> It works like ie with jaws under windows...
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "hank smith" <hanksmith4 at earthlink.net>
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: Linux and gui
>>
>>
>>> nothing has changed
>>> sad smily
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Rafi Cohen" <rafic at actcom.co.il>
>>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:49 PM
>>> Subject: Linux and gui
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, I'm a blind software engineer and most of my experience concentrates 
>>> on Linux and unix.
>>> Recently, an organization here in Israel offers support for people who 
>>> are willing to contribute to the opensource community,
>>> either by developing a new project or contributing to an ongoing one.
>>> while the textual command line Linux is accessable, the gui linux is 
>>> much less and needs improving.
>>> I thought to invest on this area and contribute to improve the gui 
>>> accessibility so that users may have full access to openoffice, firefox 
>>> and any other gui based bpplication.
>>> I did not keep track after this area during a year, but it ssems not 
>>> much has changed since then.
>>> Am I correct in this or somebody has other news for me?
>>> Yes, I know gnopernicus and I even tried it for a very little while with 
>>> my Vario braille display with no much success
>>> concluding that Gnopernicus has way to go.
>>> and, if indeed I'll decide to take sucha project under my 
>>> responsability,
>>> I thought to concentrate on Gnopernicus and further develop it.
>>> I don't want to "invent the wheel" so my questions to the list are as 
>>> follows:
>>> 1. Is there any on-going development on Gnopernicus or is it quite a 
>>> stuck project?
>>> 2. Are there other software and developments in this area currently?
>>> 3. Does the route of developing Gnopernicus is a correct idea, or would 
>>> you suggest other ideas?
>>> 4. Gnopernicus is part of Gnome. Is there something also for kde?
>>> This is for me a kind of research and "sniffing" of this area before I 
>>> decide to jump into it.
>>> Any feedback and idea will be most appreciated.
>>> Thank you all in advance, Rafi.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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