Re: What Workd with Gnopernicus?

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi John:

To the best of my knowledge the gnopernicus braille modules work fine;
however it appears to me that your braille device isn't supported yet,
judging from your description of the output you see (when you see it).

I believe that the relative lack of output on your braille display (as
opposed to the truncation) may be due to an underlying problem.  But
your braille device is not on the "officially working with gnopernicus"
list.

Mozilla does work, albeit incompletely.  All the other Linux browsers,
except Opera which has no accessibility support, are based on the
Mozilla engine; mozilla is definitely the furthest ahead with regard to
accessibility.  Gnome-terminal does work but there are undoubtedly
issues when using it with ncurses-type programs like pine and
lynx/links.  As for Evolution, accessibility is on the roadmap but needs
to be prioritized higher; perhaps you could ping the evolution
maintainers?

StarOffice/OpenOffice should start to be usable in their next (6.1/1.1)
release.

regards,

- Bill


On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 22:07, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As many of you know, i am trying to get braille output from Gnopernicus. 
> So far I get only the welcome and goodby messages - and truncated at that. 
> It appears that the braille modules don't really work yet. I hope that if 
> fixed in the next release.
> 
> Looking forward to that, I am wondering what Gnome applications work well 
> enought with gnopernicus to warrant testing for possible day-to-day use. 
> Gedit is reported to work. How about Evolution, which I would want for 
> e-mail. Mozilla doesn't work yet. Is there another browser that does? How 
> about Gnome-terminal? I assume that this is a GUI version of a VT100 
> terminal, so I could run command-line programs like pine and Lynx under 
> it.
> 
> I'm particularly interested in Glade, but I understand that I might have 
> to contribute to this project to make it really accessible.
> 
> thanks,
> John
> 
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