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Salut Nath ... & Co, Je viens rapidement de faire la synthèse entre le travail de Pierre, Marco et CPHIL. Meme si ce n'est pas encore le top, il me semble que tu peux l'envoyer en ton nom à Jan Buchal pour les RMLL. J'essaierai de retravailler dessus d'ici le 4/7. Les corrections de forme sont toujours les bienvenues. Celles de fond aussi d'ailleurs : ce serait dommage de s'auto-censurer meme si on n'arrive pas tout de suite à un consensus. Celui-ci pourra murir après RMLL. Main objectives Here is my position about the main trends to explore for the improvement for blind people's Linux accessibility. At first, we must distinguish the two access types to Linux : through command line and through GUI (Graphical User Interfaces). For blind people using a supported Braille terminal, a good level of accessibility exists for command line mode. The same is not true for speech synthesis, for which hardware and software supports exists presently in english, but unfortunately not in french. This is a mighty sized obstacle for french naturals and therefore work for frenchifying speech synthesis is one of our main goals. We notice a constant progressing number of blind people considering a switch to Linux, but this languages barrier causes too many to give up. It is about time things change on that matter. Another big problem has to be added to this obstacle : it should be considered that the largest majority of blind people are computer users to overcome as much as possible the daily-life difficulties related to the handicap. The computer should make possible to blind people to read documents under various formats and to edit his own documents. However, to propose a Linux box today to a blind person and to claim that it will completely meet his need would not be reasonable. For example, if the person wishes to write in a simple way some snail-mail with a clean presentation, he should use a word processing application. However, this type of application exists only with a GUI and is thus inaccessible to blind people for the moment. In the same way, it is likely that a graphical web browser is mandatory to display correctly the contents of a website, the current design techniques of web publishing being based on the use of this type of browser. At last, is one able to use effectively an OCR in command line mode ? I am not sure. This make me come to the second axis to consider : the GUI access. In this field, I think that quite everything is still to be done. For the moment, we are primarily at the stage of discussions, and it is desirable to make things change as soon as possible so that Linux becomes the reference operating system in the world of visually impaired people. To conclude, I would say that BigLux has to mainly direct its development work in the following fields: - frenchifying speech synthesis, - accessibility of the GUI. A+ -- Phil voir aussi la dernière mise à jour des "BigLux skills" http://philsfree.free.fr/2.htm (merci CPHIL) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: biglux-unsubscribe@savage.iut-blagnac.frFor additional commands, e-mail: biglux-help@savage.iut-blagnac.fr