New episode of @fossandcrafts! Episode 42: Learning the Sewing Machine https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/42-learning-the-sewing-machine.html
Last episode we talked about @mlemweb learning something she was anxious about: Emacs! This time, it's me learning to overcome (by learning!) my source of anxiety: the sewing machine!
And hey, I got an awesome skirt out of it! That I made!
Hi !
We're trying to start introducing FOSS to young blind kids in Burkina Faso, and some of them show great interest in it.
Would you know of good podcasts or audio resources in French that we could provide them ?
Thanks !
Orca in french works well, I know people using it.
I didn't know about emacspeak, I'll have to check it out. Would you have a link for it ?
@LibreFaso oh yeah, here you go! http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
and here's a talk: How a Completely Blind Manager/Dev Uses Emacs Every Day - Parham Doustdar https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/08/
Hi LibreFaso, a French podcast link: "Libre A Vous" https://www.libreavous.org/emissions
@davidrevoy @LibreFaso @fossandcrafts @mlemweb Yes I guess, why not crowdsource this anyway?
Friends of the fediverse! FOSS + French stuff that's appropriate for blind kids! Stuff that might be useful! Things to listen to!
@davidrevoy @LibreFaso @fossandcrafts @mlemweb BTW, it's not French, but here's an episode about rogulelikes and blind players: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/10/episode-48-designing-for-visually.html
And many of these games are translated into french, so hey, maybe you can figure out how to get it so your kids can play!
@davidrevoy @LibreFaso @fossandcrafts @mlemweb French based textual interactive fiction may also be great! https://www.ifwiki.org/History_of_Interactive_Fiction_in_French
https://blog.templaro.com/2021-french-interactive-fiction-competition/
Probably best and most current resources would be known by the people involved with https://oscafrica.org
@LibreFaso @fossandcrafts @mlemweb Hm I don't know! I know that Orca in Gnome can use French, but I don't know much if it's any good. Don't know any french podcasts myself...
Most of the time I've spent exploring resources for blind users has been with Emacspeak, which is really cool. But that's very emacs'y. It does seem to be the most powerful desktop environment for blind users around though.
There's an extension to support multilingual environments https://poretsky.github.io/packages/