Re: web-based, distributed, accessible applications (was LibreFaso)

2022-03-06 Thread john doe
On 3/6/2022 10:46 PM, Rich Morin wrote: On Mar 6, 2022, at 11:08, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote (offlist): Perhaps I'm biased on account of having learned to program under the Object-oriented paradigm, but I'm curious why you count that as a con of Python. tl; dr - personal preference, plus concurr

audio resources in French

2022-03-06 Thread LibreFaso
Hi all ! What would be the audio resources to better understand free software that I could direct the ABPAM kids to ?Obviously they can read web pages with their screen readers but I suppose that material that was originally designed to be listened to will have better appeal to them. Most of th

Re: web-based, distributed, accessible applications (was LibreFaso)

2022-03-06 Thread Rich Morin
> On Mar 6, 2022, at 11:08, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote > (offlist): > > Perhaps I'm biased on account of having learned to program under the > Object-oriented paradigm, but I'm curious why you count that as a con of > Python. tl; dr - personal preference, plus concurrency issues. I apologize for

Re: LibreFaso - introduction

2022-03-06 Thread LibreFaso
Thanks. I know that it's not the same (though I believe that Common Voice builds databases that can be used for many goals ?) but basically if we have a linguist for Common Voice we can ask him to help for speech synthesis too (he was highly motivated with helping as he is passionate in promoti

Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: LibreFaso - introduction

2022-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
LibreFaso, le dim. 06 mars 2022 18:17:34 +, a ecrit: > I've begun parsing the documentation of espeak-ng but that's a lot of > information to process, and the meeting with ABPAM is supposed to be > tomorrow. > > Could you please just explain what are the lower-level contributions that > wo

Re: Accessible Coconut

2022-03-06 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Here is the download link for Accessible Coconut: https://sourceforge.net/projects/accessible-coconut/files/latest/download?source=files The latest iso is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/accessible-coconut/files/Accessible-Coconut-20.04.05/Accessible-Coconut-20.04.05.iso Best wishes, Dav

web-based, distributed, accessible applications (was LibreFaso)

2022-03-06 Thread Rich Morin
tl;dr - web-based, distributed, accessible applications - we have the technology I found the recent discussion of the LibreFaso project quite interesting and wish them well in their efforts. The topic also brought to mind some thoughts I've been having about web-based, distributed, accessible

Re: LibreFaso - introduction

2022-03-06 Thread Ishe Chinyoka
Hi LibreFaso, Indeed this is a noble and an interesting project to spread the Libre gospel to developing countries. I just want to highlight some of the challenges one might run into, although they are not that big. Talking from my experience here in Zimbabwe, for most blind people, whether

Re: LibreFaso - introduction

2022-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, LibreFaso, le dim. 06 mars 2022 14:48:00 +, a ecrit: > I had a meeting with a local linguist who agreed to help us develop a Mooré > (and probably Bamanaan an Fulfulde) version of Common Voice, so actually > helping the kids develop a local language version of speech synthesis is > d

Accessible FOSS games ?

2022-03-06 Thread LibreFaso
Hi all.I'd like to show the blind or visually impaired kids at the ABPAM (see previous message) some accessible FOSS games to show them something that may interest them to contribute to, but I can't find any. What would exist ? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

LibreFaso - introduction

2022-03-06 Thread LibreFaso
Hi all. We're (collectively) a small team trying to put into effect the LibreFaso project, which quite evolved with time. The original idea was to pay tuitions to students from poor backgrounds in Burkina Faso in exchange for contributions to Free Software and culture. Any people interested can

Re: Accessible Coconut

2022-03-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I installed and had accessible coconut running on a test basis. That was several years ago so it could be accessibility improved. I use orca and that had no problems working on that earlier version. The cocofrix site was the one I used to get info and download the iso. On Sun, 6 Mar 2022, Libr

Accessible Coconut

2022-03-06 Thread LibreFaso
Hi all. I discovered the existence of the Linux distribution named Accessible Coconut a few days ago, but have trouble finding information about it.There are two websites I am aware of, https://accessible-coconut.blogspot.com/ and http://www.cocofrix.com/, both of which propose to download the