Blind vs. mainstream distros

[Linux for blind general discussion]

No problem. Since our work will be based on ARCH, there is a good chance 
that what has been done for other distros will also work on ours.


Fernando



On 05/01/2017 04:09 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> [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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