[gui-talk] Vinux 1.3 Released!

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

I think that YASR (yet another screen reader) works in console mode, 
whereas Orca works in the Gnome desktop.

At 04:23 PM 2/23/2009, you wrote:
>How does Yasr work compared to Orca?
>
>--
>Chris Hallsworth
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anthony Sales (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)"
><tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk>
>To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:44 PM
>Subject: [gui-talk] Vinux 1.3 Released!
>
>
>
>Vinux 1.3 Released!
>
>drbongo and ald0 are proud to announce the new release of Vinux - Linux for
>the Visually Impaired!
>
>This release includes a variety of new packages and features, as well as
>solutions for bugs in earlier versions:
>
>It includes a range of useful console applications and the yasr
>screen-reader, a selection of forensic/recovery tools so it can be used as
>an
>accessible recovery CD/USB pendrive by more experienced users. You can now
>install it straight to a USB pendrive using the Ubuntu USB installer, from
>the live CD or the ISO image once installed to hard drive. The username and
>password entered during the installation process is now retained and of
>course Orca, a full-screen magnifier and Braille support are all available
>out of the box! If you would like to try it out or read more details then
>please follow these links:
>
>Vinux 1.3 ISO image - http://vinux.org.uk/downloads/latest_(1.3).iso
>
>Vinux 1.3 MD5SUM - http://vinux.org.uk/downloads/latest_md5sum-1.3.txt
>
>Vinux 1.3 Release Announcement -
>http://vinux.org.uk/downloads/latest_release_announcement-1.3.txt
>
>Vinux 1.3 Keybindings etc - http://vinux.org.uk/downloads/1.3/
>
>There is one known issue in this release, the cups server does not work when
>you install it to a hard drive, although it works fine from the live CD or a
>USB pendrive install. There is a very simple fix for this which you can
>implement once you have installed it if you want to print out any documents.
>There is a script which will do this for you, or you can simply type the
>four
>lines into the terminal using the sudo command!
>
>Vinux Cups Fix Script http://vinux.org.uk/downloads/old/1.3/cupsfix.sh
>
>If you have any questions or would like to give us feedback, please register
>on the Vinux Forum/Mailing List so as not to clog up these mailing lists
>with
>posts which may not be relevant to this mailing list.
>
>Vinux Forum/Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/vinux-development
>
>have fun,
>
>drbongo and ald0

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
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