Hi everybody, I have been following this list for some months, now I have some things I want to share with you all. I'm an Italian PhD student doing research in the accessibility field, but I am also a fan of the OLPC project. Last month I reached Montevideo, Uruguay, to spend 5 months working and doing research in the Caibal plan, which is the local OLPC project, involving the whole country. I am currently working side by side with some young engineers at LATU (Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay) in the field of Assistive Technology.
I have a software project on my own, which consist of a web based Assistive Technology tool (actually a virtual web browser) which can be adapted to the needs of people with hand mobility impairments and visual problems. It is still a prototype, but I want to take it to a stable state during the upcoming 4 months. The project website is at http://farfalla-project.org (ok, it's not often updated, but my work is continuous..). As a web application, it can be run on any machine with very low system requirements. I would love to optimize it to be used on the XO. In these days I was asked to explain to some teachers how to use the XO and some of them showed interest in the ORCA accessibility suite. I managed to install it and to set up firefox with the firevox plugin and a Spanish voice using Festival. I wrote a guide about it for the LATU staff but I also put it on my blog (here: http://www.farfalla-project.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/orca_installation_guide_on_767.pdf). Well, it doesn't solve the majority of XO accessibility problems, but I think it could be a good starting point. Thanks for reading this email which is a bit long, I hope we will find a way to share more! Andrea -- Andrea Mangiatordi www.farfalla-project.org _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
