Accessible-Coconut

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      SMPlayer, VLC - Play audio and video Pluma         - Text Editing and Viewing Lios          - Document scanning and reading Solution(OCR) Orca          - Screen Reader XBoard        - Playing Chess Tuxtype       - Game for learning and practicing Typing and Braille Layout Tuxmath       - Game for practicing basic mathematics Firefox       - Web Browsing Sharada-Braille-Writer - Simple text editor for typing in six key Braille mode IBus-Braille  - System wide six or eight key Braille mode for typing text KDEConnect    - Connect smartphones to your desktop devices LMMS          - Produce music with your computer Instruments   - Play Instruments via LMMS Audacity      - Sound recording and editing Curlew        - Audio Converter Daisy-Player  - Play dai...

 Accessible-Coconut team has made a serious effort to address the major challenges caused by visual impairment. As we are aware a visually challenged person face grave difficulties in   reading and writing in the sighted way. Both problems are solved in an ingenious manner. 1 . The screen reader used in AC is Orca and the speech engine is E speak. User can opt for other speech engines like i.b.m. via voice or Cepstral etc.   2. Linux intelligent OCR solution Lios. Lios is a software solution developed by the Coconut team to address the reading problem of the visually challenged. One can read printed books in almost all the Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and of course English,using a scanner and the laptop.   All the libraries in the country are opened before the visually impaired. Lios has the capacity to convert   text or image, PDF in to text and also convert text in to audio files.   2 . Se...

1 . Ac is license free and open-source.     It means that the operating system is freely distributive and modifiable. As the source code is available user can make any change  as he wishes.   2. It is a virus free environment.   3. Accessible-Coconut can be installed along with any other operating system and again one can use it and test it in a live mode that is without installing.   4 . A visually impaired person has the speech support even at the time of installation that is one can install AC in an eyes free manner.