[laptop-accessibility] Text Mode Browsers, Screen Reader

big one bigone at qon.lao.net
Mon Oct 8 11:21:45 EDT 2007


According to various developers at devel mailing list, it is impossible to use XO Laptops in text/console mode only because there is no standard BIOS and no VGA/EGA/CGA mode on OLPC XO Laptops.

But according to Mr Vojtech Pavlik from SuSE Labs and maintainer of LinuxConsole, the standard kernel can provide text/console mode on hardware without any BIOS and without VGA/EGA/CGA.

I do not know which one is correct.
I hope OLPC XO can run on Linux Console/text and use Lynx or Links browsers with screen reader for blind/low vision students.

Perhaps someone can create special Linux LiveCD for XO Laptops with support for console/text and the browsers + screen reader for blind/low vision students. The special Linux LiveCD can be stored in an external USB flash disk or inside XO Laptops storage.

Text only user interface is more suitable for screen reader than GUI.

Is this idea possible?
Thank you.

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