Gnopernicus Vs JAWS

[richbarna]

Hi everybody,
Firstly, great work from the ubuntuforum guys for creating the accessibility section.
Accessibility is something that I feel should be given a lot more attention.

A friend of mine is blind and we regularly talk about accessibility and assistive technology, and although a lot exists, most is not accessible due to certain things that sighted people take for granted.

My friend is an XP stalwart where as I always preach the advantages of Linux.

He uses a screenreader called JAWS, which in my opinion is pretty amazing.

I would like to know if anybody has tested Gnopernicus, and could give me any advice before I set up a testing partition with another Dapper, and set up the accessibility software.

[Henrik]

I would suggest you give the new technologies Orca and possibly IBM LSR (http://live.gnome.org/LSR) a try. You might also want to try the text-based Oralux distro that comes up speaking by default on a Live CD: http://oralux.org/ Quite cool

[richbarna]

I would suggest you give the new technologies Orca and possibly IBM LSR (http://live.gnome.org/LSR) a try. You might also want to try the text-based Oralux distro that comes up speaking by default on a Live CD: http://oralux.org/ Quite cool

Thanks for the advice, I will give Oralux a go and then give it to my friend for a try out.