I might add to Hans' comments here that if this student of yours is low-vision, he might wanna take a look at Orca, a screen reader which is integrated in with GNOME. It has magnifier support. I personally have never used it but know it's there. Speakup which offers speech output from the kernel works at the console level but does not have any low-vision or magnafication support.
HTH.
On 03/06/2011 04:57 PM, der.hans wrote:
Am 06. Mar, 2011 schwätzte ow...@netptc.net so:

moin moin,

we recently had a presentation on GNU/Linux Accessibility for the Blind
for PLUG.

The demonstrations of EmacSpeak, Speakup and Orca were great for those of
us with no experience. Speakup is now in the main kernel, so easier to
access.

http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/222

Steve will be repeating his presentation at ABLEconf in about a month if
Phoenix is convenient for you.

You might suggest to your student to join the blinux-list.

http://www.counterpunch.org/~blinux/

BTW, I'm top-posting because I'm told that's much easier for the blind.

ciao,

der.hans

List

I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local
University. One of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind
but he requires a powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of
a telescope to see the overhead projection of my course slides. He has
expressed interest in Linux but, quite understandably, would require
some software assistance to view documents and circuit schematics,
potentially enlarging them at specific areas. I run Debian Lenny on my
home system and Dual Boot with Ubuntu on my University laptop. Can
anyone point to some specific software that I might have him try. TIA

Larry

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