Andrea, this sounds really awesome! I'm going to forward this email to the .py guys who I think are working on similar stuff.
This mailing list is very quiet, I recommend you to cc the other developer lists so you reach more people. Regards, Tomeu On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 19:09, Andrea Mangiatordi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
