In Soviet America, success is a curse. Obviously Google gaind an "unfair advantage" by "cheating"... fun fact: antitrust law has mostly been used by smaller companies with failed businesses/business models as a lever against the companies doing the actual innovating. Here's a good book on the subject.
No, that was my brain going on autopilot. Sometimes, for words I don't use often or when my fingers get ahead of my brain, I end up substituting homophones... which are a bitch, btw, if you're only using speech.
As for my braille display, I'm using the Focus 40 Blue, mainly because it was cheap (for the government agency who bought it for me), and it's made by the same company that produces my screen reader. It's currently in my office, where I do most of my programming work. Never heard of the show you referenced, sadly.
If you're in classic view (i.e. no unity), press control-alt-d to get to the desktop. Navigate to the drive icon, then press the "Applications Key" (usually to the right of the right alt key), then down arrow to "eject drive" or "safely eject drive."
Yes, it is completely possible to do so. There are even built-in shortcuts to do just about everything (desktop, start menu, application navigation mechanisms, ETC)... and that's not even getting into all the stuff a screen reader gives you, like the ability to inspect the screen with a "flat review cursor." Then there are all sorts of fun things like "spell word", ETC.
It's also possible to use a computer soully with a refreshable braille display device, though it gets aggrivating, and there's no way in hell I'd do it for a week.
On the Linux side of things, the accessibility is far worse than in Windows, but Gnome provides a lot of the same types of keyboard navigation mechanisms as Windows (Orca doesn't work on KDE, sadly).
... Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
Microsoft Office home and student 2007 and standard 2003 seem very important to me, as does Nortan Ghost. Hopefully the program lets you select which programs you want to remove.
I've found that many times the best songs on the album aren't the radio singles. Of course, there are many albums where the only good songs end up on the radio.
That brings me to another point. Whenever there's a song that's even remotely decent/catchy/ETC on the radio, they play it over and over again until you never want to hear it. Thus, commercial radio rapes good music by repeatedly shoving it down your throat.
Does Re-Captcha have audio facilities for blind or visually/reading impaired people? I ask this as a blind person who generally hates captchas, especially ones where the audio version makes you install QuickTime (ugh!).
Now, if only sound that didn't go through Microsoft's DirectSound was played at the same volume as sound that was. This is really annoying when you're trying to listen to music and read Slashdot or something and the music totally dwarfs your text-to-speech software in volume.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is... please, if you're going to put touchscreens on things, leave the keyboard and give an option to reduce or turn off touchscreen sensitivity. There's nothing worse than trying to type and getting thrown into a completely different app.
...Now, get off my lawn! *waves cane menacingly* No, I'm not old, that's just a fun meme
Ben Underwood , while a very inventive individual and cause for many "feel-good" stories in the media is, imo, a pussy. I'm going to laugh my ass off when he goes to an unfamiliar town (with no cane, mind you) and gets very disoriented. I spent almost a year with these guys, and they taught me a thing or two about echo-location and traveling.
Full disclosure: I was born 3.5 months premature, and my retinas detached at 4 months.
I call it being able to hear the "sound shadows" of objects, because that's really what they are - an object blocks sound, and that blockage is projected to the ear. With a good cane, I can navigate around tables, columns, and even position myself relative to peoples' voices to keep myself from running into them. It's quite amazing what you can tell with a good hallway, and a constant sound source (soda/vending machines are good). For example, an open, echoy space usually means a stairwell.
Also, randomness... the first time I went to post, my screen reader was very sluggish and crashed. I guess Slashdot hates blind Linux users.
Yes, I'm also glad I didn't buy an EEE 701. I bought an EEE 901 (the Windows version, because screen reading software is so much better), and couldn't be happier. People complainingabout the keyboards on 8.9" netbooks should try typing on a Braille N Speak. The "original" version was worse... trust me, ergonomic braille keyboards make sense.
Anyway, I have both my EEE 901 and a BrailleNote, and the EEe delivers so much more (x86 compatibility, faster wireless, ETC) than the BrailleNote for a similar size. The refreshable braille display on the BN is its only advantage for me.
Seriously, someone should write something like Nuance Talks for Google Android, especially since the sole means of input is not through a touch screen. Having seen an iPhone, I was struck by two things:
1. It's a huge, ugly-feeling brick of a device.
2. There's only like one button.
Either Nuance or Code Factory should port their mobile phone screen reader products to the android platform, or someone should get a group of tallented blind programmers (I don't consider myself tallented) together to write something.
Yes, I'm blind, you insensitive clods!
As soon as this gets picked up by the major distros, it'll be easier for more blind people to switch to Linux, although most of the ones that have are using Ubuntu 8.04.
Gecko-1.9 actually has a propper accessibility implementation for *nix, see this page for the details on using firefox with Gnome/Orca.
Yes, I do use Linux for most of my daily work, and it's mostly okay, although for GUI things at the moment, windows still beats it hands down. See here and Here.
It's my server, but I also use it to test gnome accessibility when I'm at home. So I don't want an integrated video card, even though I'm not using compiz-fusion or anything. I just want something with its own memory. And yes, I have a server that's quite overkill for what I need (except for storage)...
You sighted people and your fancy video cards... I like my PCIe x16 GeForce 7300, with pasive cooling and no extra power requirements. IT does have a nice 128 MB of ram.
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From a blind guy running a linux server out of his bedroom
I'd much rather be blind. Oh wait, I am... now, as far as retina frying goes, one prosthetic eye and a nonfunctioning real eye still leave a lot to damage.
Ps. I've had a laser pointer shined at my "real" eye, and I couldn't see it.
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In Soviet America, success is a curse. Obviously Google gaind an "unfair advantage" by "cheating"... fun fact: antitrust law has mostly been used by smaller companies with failed businesses/business models as a lever against the companies doing the actual innovating. Here's a good book on the subject.
I generally set my theme to "Classic" to avoid that "feature."
What's really worse is the screen reading ability of Linux and Unix-like systems. If you just nee to use the keyboard for stuff, you may be able to.
As for my braille display, I'm using the Focus 40 Blue, mainly because it was cheap (for the government agency who bought it for me), and it's made by the same company that produces my screen reader. It's currently in my office, where I do most of my programming work. Never heard of the show you referenced, sadly.
Again, unfortunately the only GUI environments that are accessible in Linux are Gnome and LXDE, and maybe parts of XFCE (I'm not that brave though).
If you're in classic view (i.e. no unity), press control-alt-d to get to the desktop. Navigate to the drive icon, then press the "Applications Key" (usually to the right of the right alt key), then down arrow to "eject drive" or "safely eject drive."
control-f2, at least when running VoiceOver. Not sure how to do it if you have working eyeballs and no need for a screen reader.
It's also possible to use a computer soully with a refreshable braille display device, though it gets aggrivating, and there's no way in hell I'd do it for a week.
On the Linux side of things, the accessibility is far worse than in Windows, but Gnome provides a lot of the same types of keyboard navigation mechanisms as Windows (Orca doesn't work on KDE, sadly).
Microsoft Office home and student 2007 and standard 2003 seem very important to me, as does Nortan Ghost. Hopefully the program lets you select which programs you want to remove.
That brings me to another point. Whenever there's a song that's even remotely decent/catchy/ETC on the radio, they play it over and over again until you never want to hear it. Thus, commercial radio rapes good music by repeatedly shoving it down your throat.
Does Re-Captcha have audio facilities for blind or visually/reading impaired people? I ask this as a blind person who generally hates captchas, especially ones where the audio version makes you install QuickTime (ugh!).
I have an EEE 901 (the xp version), which has the following:
Now, if only sound that didn't go through Microsoft's DirectSound was played at the same volume as sound that was. This is really annoying when you're trying to listen to music and read Slashdot or something and the music totally dwarfs your text-to-speech software in volume.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is ... please, if you're going to put touchscreens on things, leave the keyboard and give an option to reduce or turn off touchscreen sensitivity. There's nothing worse than trying to type and getting thrown into a completely different app.
I lost my virginity to a real woman, you insensitive clod!
Okay, that's what I get for not using preview! The correct site is here
Ben Underwood , while a very inventive individual and cause for many "feel-good" stories in the media is, imo, a pussy. I'm going to laugh my ass off when he goes to an unfamiliar town (with no cane, mind you) and gets very disoriented. I spent almost a year with these guys, and they taught me a thing or two about echo-location and traveling.
I call it being able to hear the "sound shadows" of objects, because that's really what they are - an object blocks sound, and that blockage is projected to the ear. With a good cane, I can navigate around tables, columns, and even position myself relative to peoples' voices to keep myself from running into them. It's quite amazing what you can tell with a good hallway, and a constant sound source (soda/vending machines are good). For example, an open, echoy space usually means a stairwell.
Also, randomness ... the first time I went to post, my screen reader was very sluggish and crashed. I guess Slashdot hates blind Linux users.
Anyway, I have both my EEE 901 and a BrailleNote, and the EEe delivers so much more (x86 compatibility, faster wireless, ETC) than the BrailleNote for a similar size. The refreshable braille display on the BN is its only advantage for me.
Seriously, someone should write something like Nuance Talks for Google Android, especially since the sole means of input is not through a touch screen. Having seen an iPhone, I was struck by two things: 1. It's a huge, ugly-feeling brick of a device. 2. There's only like one button. Either Nuance or Code Factory should port their mobile phone screen reader products to the android platform, or someone should get a group of tallented blind programmers (I don't consider myself tallented) together to write something. Yes, I'm blind, you insensitive clods!
Gecko-1.9 actually has a propper accessibility implementation for *nix, see this page for the details on using firefox with Gnome/Orca.
Yes, I do use Linux for most of my daily work, and it's mostly okay, although for GUI things at the moment, windows still beats it hands down. See here and Here.
It's my server, but I also use it to test gnome accessibility when I'm at home. So I don't want an integrated video card, even though I'm not using compiz-fusion or anything. I just want something with its own memory. And yes, I have a server that's quite overkill for what I need (except for storage) ...
You sighted people and your fancy video cards ... I like my PCIe x16 GeForce 7300, with pasive cooling and no extra power requirements. IT does have a nice 128 MB of ram.
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From a blind guy running a linux server out of his bedroom
I'd much rather be blind. Oh wait, I am ... now, as far as retina frying goes, one prosthetic eye and a nonfunctioning real eye still leave a lot to damage.
Ps. I've had a laser pointer shined at my "real" eye, and I couldn't see it.