[gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived

Sat Dec 1 23:52:03 CST 2007

FYI, there are already screenreaders for Linux.  Orca is the one I have
heard the most about but something I was reading a couple days ago (sorry,
don't really remember what exactly I was reading) listed about four
different screenreaders for Linux.  I'm pretty sure that Orca supports some
braille displays.

Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:46 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived
> 
> 
> Well that's a good step in the right direction in any case, 
> judging by  
> what I've read thus far I think that if there's a screen reading  
> package out there which handles X-Windows then in theory there  
> shouldn't be a problem in getting one of these little 
> treasures talking. The next thing is will manufacturers of 
> Braille Displays offer LINUX  
> drivers? If they do then I'll seriously consider one of 
> these. Whilst on the subject of Braille displays, I had a 
> chance to try a  
> Braille Display with the Mac and OS10.5 Leopard a few days 
> ago and the  
> support is very good but even better than that, you plug in a  
> supported Braille Display and that's it! VoiceOver recognises it  
> straight away, no need to install drivers or anything.
> 
> On 01/12/2007, at 6:35 AM, Beth Wright wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Somebody on one of the Linux mailing lists said he got one of those
> > new
> > notebooks and got it to talk using Linux, but I don't know how he  
> > did it or
> > how good the results were.
> >
> > Beth Wright
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ray Foret Jr" <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
> > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer 
> has arrived
> >
> >
> >> I think that is indeed what he said.  Anyone know whether this can
> >> be made
> >> accessible or not; and, furthermore, is the new Australian 
> government
> >> going
> >> to buy what ever is needed to allow blind students to use it?
> >>
> >> A fair question don't you think?
> >>
> >> Sincerely yours,
> >> The Constantly Barefooted,
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> >>
> >> God bless President George W. Bush!
> >> God bless our troops!
> >> and God bless America
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> >> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:10 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has
> >> arrived
> >>
> >>
> >> Oh, sorry. I thought you said the government was giving 
> these to all 
> >> students. That was what I was commenting on.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtdane at iprimus.com.au>
> >> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:16 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has
> >> arrived
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry? I don't follow you here, its already selling in the 
> states. I 
> >> meant to give you a price tag too, $400.00.
> >>
> >> On 01/12/2007, at 4:39 AM, Sherri wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's pretty good! Of course, nothing like that would 
> happen in the 
> >>> states.
> >>>
> >>> Sherri
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtdane at iprimus.com.au>
> >>> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >>> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:18 PM
> >>> Subject: [gui-talk] The new breed of notebook computer has arrived
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Everyone!
> >>> Well we have a new Government in australia and what does this have
> >>> to
> >>> do with the subject line of this message I hear you ask? 
> Well during
> >>> the Federal Election camping the incoming Labor Party promised to
> >>> equip all High School students with a laptop/notebook computer and
> >>> many people (including yours truly) wondered just how much this
> >>> "equipping" process may cost.
> >>> Having just read an article in today's Australian 
> newspaper, I doubt
> >>> whether the cost  will be as high as it could have been if Mr Rudd
> >>> (our new Prime Minister) decides to give out the new Asis notebook
> >>> computer which has taken the U.S. by storm, in its first month of
> >>> release over 10,000 units were sold, not bad.
> >>> So what's special about this new notebook computer and 
> what sets it
> >>> apart from the competition? Well firstly, the unit 
> doesn't have a  
> >>> hard
> >>> drive, It has 4 gigs of RAM for data I/O which can be 
> expanded by  
> >>> the
> >>> use of external hard drives or SD memory cards. The 
> notebook itself
> >>> has only 512 meg of RAM for running applications.
> >>> Now readers may think this amount insignificant compared to other
> >>> notebooks which boast RAM in the "gigabyte" region but again we're
> >>> talking about a different species of notebook here, this one runs
> >>> "open source" software including a version of LINUX with 
> a GUI so it
> >>> looks like Windows to the user.
> >>> So what do you get with this thing? 4 USB ports, its Wi-Fi  
> >>> compatible
> >>> and will run for 4 hours away from an AC power source, not too bad
> >>> when you consider that this device is the size of a large 
> paperback
> >>> book with a 7-inch LCD display. The notebook machine has a cramped
> >>> "qwerty"-style keyboard and I would imagine that you 
> could plug-in a
> >>> full-size keyboard to one of the USB ports.
> >>> Audio recording/playback is possible with the unit as it 
> boasts both
> >>> line-in/mic and line-out/headphone sockets.
> >>> I guess the next question will be whether some "clever 
> dick" will be
> >>> able to get this thing to run some sort of screen reader, 
> will it be
> >>> powerful enough to do that? The CPU is nothing to rave about at  
> >>> 750MHZ
> >>> however that's perfectly adequate I would have thought 
> for the tasks
> >>> to which this notebook is likely to be paired.
> >>>
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