[SGVLUG] Linux for the blind

[Dustin Laurence]

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Charles N Wyble wrote:

| Check out GRML as well at http://grml.org/. It has speech support built
| in from the getgo. Also check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility.
| RedHat (fedora at least) also seems to be usable with speech.

So I haven't looked at GRML yet, but I'm guessing it is a "normal" Linux
with a screenreader? OK, so what seems to make Adrianne different is
that it boots into a very restricted interface--restricted enough that
it's hard to get lost. Basically, a menu-driven system with options only
for what a blind user is most likely to need, plus a command-line for
everything else. For example, "scan a page on the scanner" is a
top-level menu item on the theory that this is something a blind user is
going to want to do often (followed by reading it with OCR, I assume,
but I haven't tried that part so I don't yet know if that "just happens."

So my guess is that the intended audience is totally different; Adrianne
seems to be aimed at non-Geek types that do not have a lot of
expectations or needs but do need the maximum hand-holding with what
they will do. It would make a "Linux person" crazy, blind or not.

Dustin
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