True Vision - Ubuntu Linux and ORCA for visually challenged

[geppettvs]

God! This video made me cry, I can't say how happy I feel because of the open source technologies and the efforts to make technological improvements to be in the reach by everybody. Thank you for sharing!

[yogiprasanna]

I am interested in contributing for this software.

[moviesnice]

good story!

[parmship]

lol

[pistonhondatko]

awesome!

[urbandiscount]

as a visually impaired person myself, i hate the first few seconds of the voice over. consider re-writing it, because it comes across as insulting, not helpful

[arunprasannan]

The narration did sound rather condescending.

[konstaaaa]

I beleave this is a very good iniciative but the voice over ruins this presentation; for gods sake:

We call it the blind?

[eitanisaacson]

I agree. Although I found a lot of the narration very amusing for that reason: "a totally visually impaired person".

Or at the end the narrator leaves us in deep contemplation with: "it was we the normally sighted people who have been blind throughout to the wonders of Open Source technologies on the Linux platform".

The elevator music also give this video a lot of character.

But seriously, it is really great to hear about deployments of Orca around the world.

[cyborgtroy]

Yeah, it's all "Ha, you can't see this. And WE call YOU, THE MINORITY"

Like, stop being a jerk, narrator.

[phalos]

This is wonderful.

I'm also VI, and want to move to linux, but couldn't find a good screen-reader.

This sounds like it will work.

It sounds like the eSpeak API.

Correct?

Thanks for sharing.