Re: [Lxde-list] accessibility of lxde?

[Sven G. <mai...@gu...>]

* Josh <jke...@gm...> [2009-01-29 14:26]:
> How's it going with makig LXDE accessible with a
> screen reader like Orca so blind people can use it?

yes.. feedback from blind users would be very helpful.

here in germany we have an NGO, linaccess.org,
which deals with accessibility to computers
in various forms for disabled people - one
of these is for visually impaired people.
they have tested Orca a few times,
accompanied by accessibility people.

one of the founders of this NGO is Klaus Knopper, the creator of the
Knoppix Live CD.  his wife is blind and is using Knoppix.  and Klaus
has a special project for giving access to blind people - ADRIANE:
"Audio Desktop Reference Implementation and Networking Environment"
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html

Klaus just released version 6 which now uses LXDE instead of KDE:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix60-en.html

   LXDE is used as graphical environment, which is a very
   slim and fast desktop with extremely short starttime and
   low resource requirements.  Because of its GTK2 base,
   LXDE works together nicely with screenreader Orca.

so i hope that further testing will take place now
with the new version of Knoppix+LXDE and ADRIANE.

Klaus is here on this list and probably
can answer further questions for you.

(hmm.. maybe you already knew this..)

Sven