Help for a blind friend
Mike Dupont
jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 21 15:48:12 CDT 2011
I have heard and would think it possible that emacs would be the best
interface for a blind person.
mike
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have heard at least two blind GNU users state that they have used
> JAWS, and the switched to gnome's ORCA screen reader, and found it to
> be substantially better. Any GNOME based distro should be fine so
> long as she sticks with GTK-based apps. Specifically Orca takes
> queues from the GTK window layout framework which do not exist in KDE
> or non-gtk windows. Nothing is going to be perfect. Especially when
> someone is looking for an excuse to complain about it, but Orca is
> supposed to be pretty darn good.
>
> As for dealing with ATT? See if a mention of the ADA to ATT support's
> supervisors makes ATT support more eager to help. The ADA entitles
> any disabled person to rain sulfur and brimstone down upon any
> business that doesn't bend over backwards to placate the handicapped.
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 13:10, Haworth, Michael A.
> <Michael_Haworth at pas-technologies.com> wrote:
> > she is extremely leery of change (primarily because of her lack of
> vision)
>
> I would encourage you to disregard that. Everyone who is leery of
> change will find some justification to be leery of change. Many blind
> people have found Orca superior to Jaws. And take this chance to get
> her away from using ISP-provided email for heavens sake. Don't
> present things as an option, and people won't choose to be leery of
> them.
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