[Athen] Screen reader and Eee PC?

[Kevin Price]

UBUNTU maybe an option.  UBUNTU
(http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/accessibility) has the
ORCA screen reader built in. (I admit to have little experience with
it. ) It requires at least 256 MB of RAM (the standard installation CD
requires 384MB of RAM). Install requires at least 3 GB of disk space.
Kevin


Kevin Price MSW, ATP
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disability Resource Center (MC 321)
Suite 1190, Student Services Building
1200 West Harrison Street
Chicago, Illinois  60607-7163
(312) 413-0886   Fax (312) 413-7781
Email:  pricek at uic.edu



On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Kelmer, Susan M. <SKelmer at stlcc.edu> wrote:

> Al, unless this one has a standard hard drive, XP is not a possibility.

> Many of those eee netbooks came with a 4 gb SSDrive.  No room for XP.  There

> are some accessibility programs for Linux; whether or not they will run on

> that version of Linux is indeed the question.

>

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> Susan Kelmer

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> Adaptive Technology Specialist/

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> Lab Coordinator, Campus Labs and Classrooms

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> St. Louis Community College - Meramec

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> 314-984-7951

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Al Puzzuoli

> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:20 PM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Screen reader and Eee PC?

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>

> Hmm,

>

> This one could be tricky. I believe those machines ship with a proprietary

> flavor of Linux. Not even sure which desktop they run. If it's using some

> offshoot of Gnome, you may be able to get the Orca screenreader working on

> it; However if not, then  your best bet may be to blow away the OS, load it

> with XP, and then  use something like System Access. Serotek offers System

> access licenses for atom processor based machines for $149.00

>

> --Al

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