Subject: Re: HOWTO

[Janina Sajka]

Will Backman writes:
> On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 10:08, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Rudi Chiarito writes:
> > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:28:37PM -0400, Will Backman wrote:
> > > > I would argue, though, that PDF is best for print and poor for screens. 
> > > 
> > > What do you mean, "poor for screens"? It has support for Powerpoint-like
> > > fades! [1] What more do you need? :]
> > 
> > Much, much more.
> > 
> > Speaking of myself, I need to rerender in an alternative format such as braille or synthetic speech because I'm not going to read anything on a screen.
> > 
> Are you able to get much mileage out of the tools built into Fedora Core
> for accessibility?
> 
Well, considering that my main accessibility tool is the bash prompt, I'd have to say "Most certainly!" <grin>

If you mean the recent accessibility support for Gnome, regretably no. The gnopernicus screen reader is not yet a very usable product via TTS (Text to Speech). Hard to know when that will get resolved. 

Also, there seems to be a problem keeping some packages current. Emacspeak is up to 19.x, but only at 17 -- and just plain missing in X86. And the braille interface application, brltty is at 3.2 in the development tree, but at 3.5 at the project main page.

However, I'm happy enough to be building a dual Opteron system that will run FC 2.

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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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