Blind vs. mainstream distros

[Linux for blind general discussion]

[Fernando]

[...]

> Our focus is usually on keeping things very low-cost, in order to get great
> technology into the hands of the blind in developing countries. Since
> Braille displays are so expensive, we have not done |Braille in the past.
> 
> But we could change this if we could get contributors who care about Braille
> display accessibility who could help us with that aspect of the project.
> 
> Any chance you could help us with Braille?

[...]
I'm so sorry. I don't have the time needed to test or otherwise
investigate in distros.

Lars

> On 04/30/2017 07:31 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > [Fernando]
> > 
> > Lars Bjørndal here
> > 
> > > Agreed. We plan to address that by giving people the ability to open an
> > > instance of X with a GUI browser.
> > With braille support?
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
> > > On 04/29/2017 11:55 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > > > The biggest problem that I see, with Emacspeak alone, is web access. For
> > > > 	now, as far as I know, that is no way to, say, browse Facebook
> > > > 	within Emacs. Try it. Besides that, Emacs is fine for me, as a
> > > > 	non-programmer with time to learn interfaces.
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