[laptop-accessibility] XO for blind kids

[Fernando]

Hello Javed Tak,

If you will have XOs, others on the list can help you better than I can.
However, if you will have conventional PCs, I can suggest the following:

 1. Install Ubuntu Linux on them.   It is easy to install and you can have
the Linux + Gnome + Orca + (Open Office, fireFox, Pidgin, Evolution, etc),
where Orca provides screen magnification and/or screen reading.  All these
applications come with the Ubuntu Live CD and are quite easy to install; you
can download it or request that one be mailed to you at:
http://www.Ubuntu.com/

2. If you have to install Windows, which I recommend you avoid for a number
of reasons, then you still have free and open source applications for the
kids: NVDA can provide screen reading and it will work with Firefox and
Thunderbird.  I have not yet had a chance to try Open Office or microsoft
Office with it.
You can download NVDA at:
http://www.nvda-project.org/

In other words, the good news is you do not need Jaws.

I am copying Krishnakant Mane, who is much closer to you than I am, and who
can also help. 

Best of luck,

Fernando

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	i have started a special trainning centre blind children in turmoil
ridden kashmir of india and need free software to empower these children by
providing computer education how can i get free computers with jaws software

 
 
javed ahmad tak
socialactivist


	I'd also consider something like RJ Cooper's "Find the Buttons" or
an
	interface that provides auditory feedback (either voice or low
tones)
	as a person navigates the graphic interface.
	
	I'll forward this along.
	
	Thanks
	Lesley
	
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	> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:20:50 -0400
	> From: Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>
	> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] Software for Visually Impaired
Kids in
	>        Ethiopia
	> To: accessibility at lists.laptop.org, "Reuben K. K. Caron"
	>        <reuben at laptop.org>,    Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
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	> Hi All,
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	> We have heard that XOs are going to a school in Ethiopia which has
20 -
	> 25 blind kids.
	>
	> We should come up with something these kids can use!
	>
	> Does anyone have ideas or suggestions on any existing SW that
blind kids
	> could use in Ethiopia?
	>
	> I believe that they speak Amharic, but if we start with something
	> interesting in English we can look in to translating it.
	>
	> This is our chance to make a difference for some kids who will
benefit
	> from it.
	>
	> Dan,
	>
	> Can you make sure we have a contact e-mail for someone who can
deliver
	> the SW and comment on it if/when we come up with something?
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	> Thanks,
	>
	> Greg S
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