[Audyssey] A Project I've been meaning to start for years

[Thomas Ward]

Hi Adam,

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Correct me if I'm wrong but Linux works quite well for visually
impaired, right?
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Yes and no. The shell based applications work extremely well with speech 
with speakup, yasr, etc... The gui x-windows applications are very much 
hit and miss. To be accessible with a screen reader like the gui screen 
reader orca a graphical  application under Linux must meet strict 
accessibility guidelines such as be compatible with gtk2 accessibility 
standards, use the accessibility tool kit (atk,) and because of this 
apps in Linux are hit or miss. Anything written prier to the guidelines 
went in to effect forget it. Anything written in the past couple of 
years or so has some accessibility. The apps that work well work well, 
and those without the guidelines and access support are hopeless. Some 
distributions such as Ubuntu are aware of these short comings and pack 
as many accessible applications in there distribution as they can as 
well as use the accessible Gnome dekstop as the default desktop, and 
comes packed with the orca screen reader as a added bonus.

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How well does webbrowsers work? How do you deal with frames on webpages?
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The text based web bbrowsers are fine. The graphical web browsers have 
some accessibility hang ups. A linux user wishing to browse the web 
under a graphical environment like Gnome would do best to have Gnome 
2.16 with the very latest test builds of Firefox to get reasonable 
access to the internet.
That said Firefox has a cool way to toggle through frames. I believe f6 
takes you to the next frame and shift f6 takes you to the pprier frame 
under Linux. Quite nice and handy.