Liz Burke-Scovill wrote: > > Hi all - I've recently run into several conversation in various arenas > about accessibility features for linux (ie., not just what's available in > standard distros, but also ones that really need to be worked on) - has > anyone dealth much with accessibility issues (ie., accessibility with > regards to the blind, etc.). This is something that I'm going to start > actively research as well, but wanted to pick the brains of those here at > the same time. > > Thanks, > Liz Burke-Scovill > Here are some collected URLs on speech recognition and Linux for the blind. These have been in my files for a while, and I make no guarantee that they still point to anything. The embedded comments are from other people's forwarding emails: ====================** http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/blinux/festival/cstr.mirror/Linux-1.4.0/suse/festival-1.4.0-1.i386.html Here's one for BLINUX, linux for the blind http://leb.net/blinux/ Here's a link to information about Linux Access http://ssv1.union.utah.edu/linux-access/ linux-access is a mailing list created to help users and developers of the Linux OS and related software make Linux more accessable to people with disablilities. And here's a companion page with a slide presentation of information on how Linux can be used to assist people with disabilities. http://ssv1.union.utah.edu/linux-access/slides/linux-access.001.html and here's a page on the same site, with links to other resources http://ssv1.union.utah.edu/linux-access/slides/linux-access.010.html Here's a list of archive for blind users on rufus http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/blinux/RootTree.html Noticed festival is there. Here's some information on project involving accessibility and Linux/Unix http://trace.wisc.edu/world/computer_access/unix/unixshar.html I couldn't get one of the links to work, the one at U. of Wisconsin. This one works for me. http://proxy-mail.mailcity.lycos.com/bin/redirector.cgi?http://trace.wisc.edu/world/computer_access/unix/unixshar.html IBM ViaVoice Dictation for Linux Lets You Talk to Your Computer to Create Documents http://ibm.com/software/speech/linux/dictation.html HTH, -- Lan Barnes lanbarnes at earthlink.net Icon Consulting, Inc 858-273-6677 Key fingerprint = 57D6 C219 140A A81E 26C6 8138 0E62 7F4A 2659 7389 What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. - Bertrand Russell