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<DIV>Donna,</DIV>
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<DIV>You may want to look at <A
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Free_speech">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Free_speech</A>.
This article is a proposal to enable access to accessibility tools
(e.g., speech recognition, speech synthesis) on the XO for all Activities
(including Sugar itself) using the GNOME accessibility interfaces. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This posting is very new and, at the moment, consists only of a block
diagram of the approach I am proposing. I have several pages of narrative
in the works at the moment and I am hoping to post the first version of it to
the Free Speech wiki article sometime this weekend. In the meantime,
please check out the links in the "See also" section of the article. Those
linked-to articles contain links to other speech-related efforts currently
underway for the XO (for example, eSpeak).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Brad</DIV>
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<A title=gabey8@aol.com href="mailto:gabey8@aol.com">gabey8@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=accessibility@lists.laptop.org
href="mailto:accessibility@lists.laptop.org">accessibility@lists.laptop.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:58
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [laptop-accessibility] Screen
reader software -- any progress?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The online forum where the
mailing list posts used to reside appears to be gone. The new main forum site
is forum.laptop.org and they don't seem to have a separate accessibility forum
yet.<BR><BR>So, since I can't review old posts via the online discussion
forum, I thought I'd touch base via email and ask where we stand on screen
reader software. I'm not entirely clear as to whether existing Linux screen
reader software can be installed on the XO yet.<BR><BR>BTW, I was recently
disappointed to learn that my friend's braille display, which we thought had a
USB connection, apparently doesn't. It's only got parallel and serial
connectivity. Drat. <BR><BR>Donna M.<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">----<BR>Visit http://gabey8.blogspot.com today.
:-)</DIV><BR>
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