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GNOME Talks! Part 3

Gnome Accessibility
Gnome Accessibility

In the third (MP3 Audio) of a four-part series about Gnopernicus from the American Council of the Blind, Sun accessibility engineer Marc Mulcachy demonstrates Nautlius and gedit. He also makes a note about the complaints of doing these demostrations using a speech synthesizer that is no longer available, so for this demonstration and the next he will be using of the DecTalk speech synthesizer. He also demonstrates the FreeTTS speech synthesizer.

Also this week Glynn Foster presented some screenshots showing new configuration capplets for the GNOME accessibility features. The first shows a capplet for choosing which accessability features to enable, and the second shows a capplet for controlling the visual bell feature. Also Calum Benson highlighted some of the work being done on a new applet to show the status of various accessibility features.

Re: GNOME Talks! Part 3

I've been assigned to evaluate a platform for an center for blind people.

And after being with them and take notes about what they can do with computer with other propietary systems, They told me that they need 4 basic stuff

- Speeched environment (Launch aplications, (ALT+TAB that tells you which app you're choosing)

- A supported web Browser

- An OCR system that allow them to "read books"

- An MSN or ICQ chat system

As you may notice.. it's hard to deploy those with an speech system in gnome yet.

Regards

Jaime Romanini