[laptop-accessibility] OLPC accessibility for Visually Impaired users

[Jim Gettys]

I think, at the moment, you are probably best off running Fedora 10 on
the OLPC: you should be able to run many applications.  Memory will be
tight, but if you pick and choose, I think you may find it useful.
                             - Jim


On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 17:41 +0000, tim.pennick at bt.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have an OLPC machine on loan.  I'm blind, and am wondering about the
> current state of play regarding facilities such as screen readers
> which would allow me to access this machine.  Can anyone tell me if
> there are features currently built into the OLPC machines which will
> give me screen reader functionality, and if so how to access them.
> Alternatively, is it possible to load an application such as Orca onto
> the oLPC machine and is there documentation about how this works?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tim Pennick
> 
> Tim Pennick
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