I'm the guy Hans referred to, giving a presentation for the east side
next February (I believe). I also would be glad to help out wherever
here. I heard something about the foundation for blind children a
ways back. If they still need any linux help, I'd be glad to help out
there too. I do have some time around my personal studies <smile>.
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:24:50PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> This email had been intitially sent on the end of 501c status discussion.
>
> We did a great deal of work with The Foundation for Blind Children with the
> Linux Security Team.
> I believe they are in the midst of developing applications for the iPhone
> and Android phones that completely pull the market out of all the old
> commercial tools.
>
> In Oregon, FreeGeek recycles donated corporate systems into donation
> machines and has an extensive Accessibility Project, donating a great number
> of machines throughout the city to non-profits, as well as individuals. Not
> only do they provide a complete desktop with customized Accessibility
> distro, but they provide volunteer training?
>
> I suggest that Eric (aka Technomage Hawke) call or visit that "friend of
> PLUG" in North Phoenix to see some of these new tools and how their blind
> children and adults use what is available.
>
> *I believe a few of our Penguins are fairly expert regarding the full list
> of Accessibility tools available?*
>
> Perhaps Eric would like to volunteer to head up a role with PLUG, and
> coordinate with Hans to have current information documented on a Page or
> Story (for others needing at a glance Accessibility Linux info) referenced
> on http://plug.phoenix.az.us.
>
> Any such information you coordinate in good reference form would be
> wonderful; either you can sign up on plug website and become adept at using
> it, or forward your copy to one of us who can submit it to Drupal? You
> might also volunteer to have your name directly stated as a contact for
> Accessibility Questions?
>
> Please use this email as a start of technical discussion about accessibility
> tools for Linux....
>
> Accessibility as it relates to the PLUG, etc.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Technomage Hawke <technomage.hawke@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:13 AM
> Subject: Re: NonProfit 501-C Status
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>
>
> is that darrel shandrow you are talking about?m if so, I say "HI!"
>
> anyway, I can give an overview on linux accessibility. which distributions
> work well, and which don't (believe it or not, some don't offer themselves
> to accessibility as well as others).
>
> setting up orca via ssh on an already running system is pretty simple. doing
> it in the blind from that running system is a bit more difficult (as in,
> getting the packages, etc).
>
> I haven't tried anything for kde yet, so I cannot yet stipulate that kde
> will work with orca.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:23 PM, der.hans wrote:
>
> > Am 07. Nov, 2010 schwätzte Technomage Hawke so:
> >
> > moin moin,
> >
> > Well, we do have another blind person giving us a presentation on
> > accessibility :).
> >
> > That's east side, it would be great if you could do something similar on
> > the west side.
> >
> > A presentation on a full setup for a blind user would be great. You could
> > also just start with a review of some software that's available and how
> > well it works in your opinion. Most of us really can't properly evaluate
> > that.
> >
> > I'm interested in learning more. I rewrote this email due to that
> > interest. Recently you had mentioned problems you have with bottom-posting
> > and dealing with quoted text. Usually I intersperse my questions and
> > rely upon the previous content for context. I rewrote this response as a
> > top-post and tried to remove requirements of context coming from previous
> > emails.
> >
> > I won't promise to make this change all the time, but I will endeavor to
> > better consider your imposed reading style here and elsewhere.
> >
> > I will also continue trimming content that is no longer relevant :).
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> > --
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> > # "If I want my children to work hard, I better be the hardest working
> > # person they've ever met. If I want the children to be nice, I better
> > # be the kindest human being they've ever met." -- Rafe
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