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Support for the blind
by Canonymous Oward on Wednesday 22/Dec/2004, @18:51

Support for blind users sounds sweet. Is there any information available yet on how this will be accomplished?

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Re: Support for the blind
by Christopher Sawtell on Saturday 25/Dec/2004, @00:05

What would be _really_ nice is a OCR system for KDE which actually works properly. I have a friend who is slowly going blind. He now cannot read ordinary text, and finds life a bit shallow. I know there are commercial packages which work, but my friend is does not have a private income and cannot afford any of them. Anybody know of a solution?

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Re: Support for the blind
by Nintenduh on Saturday 25/Dec/2004, @07:10

Have you tried Kooka's ocr before?
http://www.kde.org/apps/kooka/

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Re: Support for the blind
by Z_God on Saturday 25/Dec/2004, @09:00

The free versions of SUSE come with an OCR system, that seems to be commercial, but works very well.

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Re: Support for the blind
by Olaf Jan Schmidt on Sunday 26/Dec/2004, @04:18

> Is there any information available yet on how this will be accomplished?

The Qt-toolkit used by KDE already has support for screen readers on Windows and Macintosh. The next version (Qt4) will also support the Linux screen reader Gnopernicus, and a number of other assistive technologies.

We are closely cooperating with the GNOME project to create common standards for accessibility purposes.

We will make more information about this available during the next weeks.

Olaf

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