Re: Gnome - Accessibility features

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

"HUANG,CATHY (HP-Cupertino,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Red Hat 7.1. Are there any good resources about Red Hat
> accessibility besides this site?
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
> 
> I'm assuming there aren't any releases of Red Hat with accessibility
> built-in... Are there other accessibility packages available besides this?
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/EA/
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Cathy

Hi Cathy:


The EA release is rather out-of-date now, you would do better to
download from CVS and build (though that is not a trivial process).  I
think I can send you a 7.1 prebuilt tarball of a newer version if you
like.  I hope to update the EA tarballs soon, with something more
recent.

Bear in mind that the Gnome Accessibility Project stuff works only with
Gnome 2/GTK+-2.0 which is only in 'alpha' stage now.  However it can
help you get started so you know what is coming up for Gnome 2.

At the moment the main accessibility help that is available for RedHat
7.1 is, I believe, AccessX, which provides things like sticky keys, key
debouncing, etc.  If you need screen magnification there is a utility in
the most recent version of at-spi which could be useful even without
Gnome 2.

Feel free to email me with questions...

Best regards,

Bill

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Bill Haneman
Gnome Accessibility Project