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fos
11-25-2005, 11:02 PM
I have pretty poor vision. I generally use a large screen (22") and a lot of magnification.

In the Windoze world I have used ZoomText and JAWS for Windows. They both cost over $500 up front and have upgrades that cost $150+ every time Windows burps. They outran my budget a long time ago.

In the LInux world we have emacspeak and an open source speech synthesizer called Flite.

A very good LiveCD version is produced by Oralux. Though still in alpha state it is most useful.

Gnome is working on Gnopernicus that is a screen reader and magnifier. The version that comes with Debian is a little out of date.

Hence the experimentation with Gentoo.

If any of you have any experience with accessibility software, please post your experiences.

fos....

sammil
06-05-2006, 01:36 AM
Jeff,

If you come up with a solution, please post it. I have an extremely curious friend of the family who is 91 and legally blind. But very interested in searching the Internet. I'd like to help her. I have a 19 inch LCD myself and can see the possibilities.

Sam

jpaulb
06-19-2006, 07:03 PM
Have you looked at this site?
http://live.gnome.org/LSR