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New Scriptable Linux Screen Reader for Gnome on Freshmeat (Groklaw)
Groklaw takes a
look at Linux
Screen Reader 0.1.0. From the LSR homepage: "The Linux Screen
Reader (LSR) is an application that transforms the contents of the computer
screen to other media, enabling non-visual access to the graphical Gnome
desktop environment."
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New Scriptable Linux Screen Reader for Gnome on Freshmeat (Groklaw) Posted Mar 25, 2006 15:17 UTC (Sat) by hein.zelle (guest, #33324) [Link] It shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to figure that headline out, I guess. Nevertheless, that's a nicely complicated way of discribing what a screen reader is. Next time someone asks why I'm talking I'll explain to them that I'm "enabling non-visual access to my thoughts".
New Scriptable Linux Screen Reader for Gnome on Freshmeat (Groklaw) Posted Mar 26, 2006 13:27 UTC (Sun) by micampe (guest, #4384) [Link]
Do you usually visually display your thoughts? Damn, I'm still just speaking about them, I knew there were higher life forms somewhere!
Voice is NOT the only alternative medium Posted Mar 27, 2006 7:53 UTC (Mon) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link] I suspect that the wording to which you are taking exception is intended to emphasize that this LSR package is not limited to reading the screen into some sort of audio format.
I would hope that it's designed to work with Braille devices and possibly with other sorts of media as well. Of course I don't know anything about alternative adaptors for the visually impaired ... I've seen voice screen readers, Braille devices, and some little hand held bar code or OCR device which can be used to read many sorts of packages (I don't recall the details just a blind aquaintance using it in his kitchen to select a can of soup or something).
I've heard of some sort of electro-static tablet which I gather can be used to draw simple line shapes using a sort of focused current (that one can use by running his or her fingers over the service and feeling which spots are tingling and how intensely they're doing so). I don't know any details of that so I don't know if it was a prototype or ever went into any sort of production.
When you think someone has mis-worded something ... I'd suggest thinking a little harder to see if you're making some constrained assumptions about what they might mean. There may be a reason for their choice of words.
Meanwhile the display of this message in most commonly available browsers is an example of providing non-audial access to my comments. Duh!
JimD
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