On 11/8/2019 5:42 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > http://hypra.fr > > English release not completely up-to-date, but the most important is here. > > > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL > > Le 08/11/2019 à 17:39, mattias a écrit : >> website? >> >> On 2019-11-08 17:29, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: >>> A company who sells computers with Debian, from a universality access >>> point of view. It means: not needed to use commandlinie (but >>> possible) MATE desktop, Orca with as nice as possible voice according >>> to the language, Iris OCR to read paper documents, Compiz for visual >>> settings if the person needs negative or color filter or >>> magnification or whatever, etc. >>> >>> All they provide is with 12 support hours (among 5 hours training, 3 >>> pure support hours and initial customizations, help to import data, >>> mail accounts, help to set the initial voice parameters, braille, etc). >>> >>> Any dev are free, as much as possible in upstream projects (Mate, >>> Mozilla, Compiz, GTK/Qt/Muter, etc). >>> >>> Another plan exists with: 89E/month subscription, 399 security >>> deposit, 199 setup, and you have a computer, support, training, >>> unlimited and without minimum duration of subscription. Always rely >>> on Debian. Free updates. >>> >>> The purpose: making everybody access to the computer, and making >>> disable people the most standalone possible via a good computer usage >>> without technical skills (but opened for those who have them). >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL >>> Le 08/11/2019 à 17:14, mattias a écrit : >>>> what is hypra? >>>> >>>> On 2019-11-08 17:10, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >>>>> Hi Devin, >>>>> >>>>> Sorry for advertisment in advance, but: >>>>> >>>>> > I would definitely recommend the Mac. You’ll still be able to run >>>>> free software, in an environment like > Unix. Optionally, if you >>>>> use the command line, check out https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr >>>>> <https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr> >>>>> >>>>> Hypra machines do this too. And will always do. >>>>> >>>>> > It isn’t as powerful as Fenrir or Speak, but it gets the job done >>>>> well. Also, the graphical utilities that come with the Mac, Safari, >>>>> Mail, text-edit, are great also. There is spell checking, >>>>> autocorrect, text replacement, and AppleScripting and Automation, >>>>> all configurable, throughout the system, not just in > your word >>>>> processor, all accessible with VoiceOver. >>>>> >>>>> Hypra has Firefox, Thunderbird, pluma, Libreoffice, accessible all >>>>> right. And all the Debian catalog. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > Of course, there are current bugs. In Safari, you hear “insertion >>>>> point at (nil)” at the end of every paragraph unless you use the >>>>> arrow keys, and not VoiceOver navigation, to read. These bugs are >>>>> usually fixed within the year of a version release, and the >>>>> releases are often much better than the public beta versions. >>>>> >>>>> > I seriously hope that Linux stays accessible, because I’d hate to >>>>> see free software let us down so majorly. But, volunteers are not >>>>> held to a standard of accessibility, so I will not be shocked if >>>>> all we have left in Linux is the command line. >>>>> >>>>> What I mean here is not doiing free advertisment, but making you >>>>> aware of this: buy Mac, pay about 1000 euros or much more, learn >>>>> yourself, hope there are not regressions, use only Apple compatible >>>>> accesories, try reporting but Apple does not listen always (said >>>>> one of their community leader). Buy Hypra about 2000 euros, get an >>>>> out-of-the-box accessible Debian, a warranty it will stay >>>>> accessible through updates, free updates, persons you can talk to, >>>>> in order to request for things and getting support and training, >>>>> fund the free software dev to avoid such dark future as described >>>>> on the thread. You can connect most accessories (even Apple ones >>>>> despite many complexities). >>>>> In other words, if you use free software, why changing it for Mac >>>>> whereas you can pay nearly the same for a full Linux accessible, >>>>> warranty and with human support? So far there were few warranties, >>>>> hence people going to typical computers, now there is, so free >>>>> software supporters should pay to fund this effort instead of >>>>> paying for Apple, whose effort is not the same after Jobs' death. >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
Assuming that you still work at Hypra, I don't think that it is acceptable to use your debian.org e-mail to promote your work place. Clearly, those e-mail should be removed because they fall under spam or promotional e-mails. -- John Doe
