Re: [school-discuss] Korea brings homegrown open source to schools

["Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtslander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have experience with emacspeak
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

this may provide the sound interface Daniel is interested in.

The emacspeak release (version 22.0-1) is fairly new, but much of the 
supporting documentation is a few years old.

Both KDE and Gnome have accessibility projects

KDE http://accessibility.kde.org/
Gnome http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

The applications from KDE's accessibility project are now part of the standard 
KDE applications from version 3.4 and up.

Xandros uses KDE

Gord

On June 24, 2005 06:56 am, Daniel Howard wrote:
> Does Xandros/Crossover give good support for sound, microphone and
> USB/serial ports?  That's one of the issues in a special needs class in our
> school.  The special needs software uses microphone input for children with
> speech impediments, and there are also several USB/serial communication
> devices (touchscreens, communication assistance devices, etc.) that we need
> to support.  Since Wine and Win4Lin often do not support such devices, I'm
> stuck with using Windows2000 refurbished PCs (XP won't run much of the
> older software) and am concerned about hooking them to the Internet for the
> same reasons below.
>
> Daniel
>
> At 07:22 AM 6/24/2005, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Daniel Howard wrote:
> > > By the way, I set up a conference call yesterday with our four
> > > principals, who are either switching to Linux K12LTSP or considering
> > > it, and two other
> >
> >...
> >
> > >          2.  The other K12LTSP principal said he still had Windows
> > > 95/98 PCs at his school in order to run legacy Windows software, but
> > > that he would not let them be connected to the Internet as a measure to
> > > prevent viruses and other malware.  The Linux thin clients are the only
> > > ones that can access the Internet.
> >
> >I'd be curious to know what legacy software, and if any attempt has been
> >made to run it on a Xandros with Crossover. I've had excellent results
> >using this.
> >
> >--christine
>
> Daniel Howard
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