Oralux: Audio GNU/Linux Distro for Vision Impaired Persons
Added on Wednesday 7 Jul 2004
Here is an interesting Linux Distro for people with Visual impairments - just stumbled across it when looking for something else.
The user turns on his PC, which boots up the CD, the cock Oralux sings...
Then, the user selects his preferences using a vocal menu available in 5 languages.
Oralux 0.6 proposes two desktops, Emacspeak and another one based on Yasr (pronounced Yas Er), a few multilanguages voice synthesizers, and is able to select a braille display or drive an external synthesizer.
Conference: Is IT Accessible?
The University College Northamption are running a conference called, Is IT Accessible?.
Since legislation came into effect in September 2002, we should all be creating our work accessibly. This conference will give you information on accessibility and what it means.
The conference is on the 9th of September 2004 at University College Northampton Grendon Lecture Theatre.