CD-ROM with a working blind friendly GNU system.
| Maintainer: | Jan Buchal <buchal@brailcom.org> |
| Latest version: | 0.1 |
| Project archive: | https://github.com/brailcom/freebsoft-cdrom/releases |
Free(b)soft CDROM wants to make it easy to anyone to try an accessible GNU system with specialized software for blind and visually impaired.
It is designed to be used for demonstration without the need to install anything to users computer. Users will be able to try using Internet, e-mail and variety of other applications with speech output and Braille terminal.
CD-ROM is based on Knoppix which provides the tool to create a bootable CD easily. The included GNU/Linux operating system includes the following components and technologies to make the system accessible for blind and visually impaired people:
You need an ordinary PC with the following configuration:
Braille display is not required, however if you connect an ALVA device to
ttyS0 (COM1), it should be recognized and used. Other models must be
configured manually.
If you have problems to get the system working, it is possible that your hardware is not supported or properly configured.
CDROM image is available for download at https://github.com/brailcom/freebsoft-cdrom/releases.
Open and closed bugs, patches, feature requests.
For some people, technology makes life convenient, for others, it makes life possible.