[laptop-accessibility] Considering closing down the mailing list accessibility at lists.laptop.org

[Gary Kline]

Organization: Thought Unlimited.  Public service Unix since 1986.
Of_Interest: With 27 years  of service  to the  Unix  community.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:34:14PM -0400, gabey8 at aol.com wrote:
> Before this list goes away, I think it would be worthwhile to visit the accessibility of the recently-released XO Tablet. It's running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and has a lot of XO-specific software installed.
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> What accessibility features in Android would allow disabled users to make the best use of this tablet? 
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> I have, in particular, an interest in text-to-speech capabilities in Android. I know someone whose speech has been severely impaired by Parkinson's Disease, and if Android offers an affordable communication solution, I would recommend her purchase of this tablet in a heartbeat. I know that the iPad offers such apps, and that there are ruggedized/bump cases for it; however, we are talking about someone who is on a fixed income; if Android can offer the same capabilities for less money, I'd be willing to suggest the XO Tablet to her instead.
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	hello to everyone of the accessibility list,

	I have dropped out of working on my "Voice By Computer"
	program some months back even though "VBC|vbc" works 
	well on my Ubuntu linux desktop.  I was the first severely
	disabled EE to graduate as a computer programmer in 1982
	and have written several open source programs over the 
	years.  "vbc" is my text-to-speech effort that was and
	remains intended for people like myself with a speech 
	impairment.  

	some very old data is available at http://www.thought.org/vbc
	with a "src" link that will display a shar "List"; I put this
	up late last spring informed OLPC.  Several minor hacks need
	to be made to store static data.  ~/.config/inkscape/* is an
	example.  What I have in /home/kline/.VBC should be moved to
	/home/kline/.config/.VBC/*.  this is one example.

	vbc is written in C and GTK+. interested?  have at it!

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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
             Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
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