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[ILUG] non sighted linux

[ILUG] non sighted linux

Robert D. Elliott rde at irelands-web.ie
Wed Apr 5 16:53:07 IST 2000


On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, kilmartin mark wrote:

> Can any body point me a distro suitable for a blind person.
> It is for a college student who needs *nix experience and is forced to
> simply telnet from windows at the moment.

I'm not sure whether it's entirely working yet, but speakup will add
talking functionality to linux. I think it was written for slackware.
Check out http://bumpy.braille.uwo.ca/speakup/

Robert Elliott		Systems Administrator, Planet Cyber Cafe
rde at irelands-web.ie 	http://robertelliott.org





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