Eric Johansson wrote:
> the only really useful speech recognition environment right now is nuances
> naturally speaking followed closely by Microsoft. obviously the main problem
> is they only run on Windows.
There is work underway, however, to develop high-quality speech recognition
software
Mario Sanchez Prada wrote:
> From the point of view of the implementation, it should not be an issue to
> expose those optimal, low and high values in WebKit (besides adding some
> bits in WebCore’s a11y layer). The tricky thing will be of course getting
> the textual representation of the value d
Mike Gorse wrote:
> AT-SPI was originally designed around CORBA, specifically ORBit. Its
> use led to a large amount of inter-process communication. Method
> calls in ORBit were fairly quick, so this was not a huge problem,
> although that isn't to say that there were never performance issues.
> H
Taksan wrote:
> my attempts so far:
>
> I tried QT version 5. Accessibility ok in windows, but on linux it does not
> work it even makes ORCA crash. Which is sad because QT looks very
> interesting.
People have had success with QT 4.8 applications under Orca. If QT 5 doesn't
work for you
Luke Yelavich wrote:
> My initial thought is to implement some form of hand-off process, where an
> assistive technology like Orca can request to take over control of gesture
> processing at the root X window. This would require a desktop environment
> that requires root X window gesture process
Christian Hofstader wrote:
> cdh: The Gnome a11y issues for people with vision impairment in the 2.xx
> releases are many, especially when compared to what users enjoy with JAWS or
> VoiceOver. These issues, though, are not all based in Gnome itself, rather,
> across the ecosystem of OS, UI, app,
Bill Cox wrote:
> Since you bring it up, let's talk about it. There has not been a
> single accessibility bug reported by the community that was closed by
> the GTK+ team in two years. The calender doesn't talk, and neither do
> most images, regardless of the dedication of the original programme
Bill Cox wrote:
> So, how do we separate the groups that deserve accessibility funding
> under Gnome from those who seem hell bent on making life painful for
> the blind?
I don't think this is either a helpful or productive question to ask, and I
doubt very much that there are people associated
Halim Sahin wrote:
> I have some questions :-).
>
> 1.
> What's the status of at-spi2 in current distros?
> Do we have any distribution which has already packaged the at-spi2
> stuff?
Debian have packaged it, but as far as I know the packages aren't up to date.
Don't expect anybody to work serio
It will probably help if you identify which version of the python-dbus package
you are using.
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Halim Sahin wrote:
> Python 2.6 is standard in lucid so it should be work with this.
>
> Do I really need to downgrade python for at-spi2 to work?
> Or it's enough to do something with dbus python bindings?
I'm just making the suggestion as a way of identifying whether there has been
an API chan
Halim Sahin wrote:
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 232, in __init__
> _dbus_bindings.validate_bus_name(bus_name)
> TypeError: validate_bus_name() argument 1 must be string, not dbus.Struct
>
> I.ve used latest git versions of atk at-spi2core and pyatspi from git.
Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> I think this debate goes beyond accessibility requirements and into the
> "old" and "new" way of doing stuff. I miss having absolute control over
> the network with ifconfig, but NetworkManager is very appealing to users
> who never considered Linux before, not to mention
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:07:40PM -0700, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> This release of Accerciser has some substantial changes. I would love it
> if folks give the latest release/trunk a round and tell me what you
> think.
What is the present situation with regard to the accessibility of the tool
itse
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:28:04PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Now that this bug has been fixed for 2.24, we may have gotten rid of one
> of the last remaining barriers to enabling a11y by default:
>
>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524263
This is great news. Thanks to all involv
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:28:55AM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> There really needs to be a way to launch the AT programs, including
> keybinding and mouse gesture launching.
>
There are two requirements, I think.
1. Standard and working keyboard and mouse commands to launch Orca from gdm
prior
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:17:06AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Looks like Fedora may pick this font up directly--until such time as it
> is provided via Gnome:
Excellent. If there are any interested debian developers on this list, perhaps
now is the time to suggest that they pick up the fonts as
Here is a quick idea that came to mind after writing my last post.
It has often been said that one of the side-benefits of accessibility support
would be better automated testing of user interfaces. If a user interface can
be read and operated entirely by software, as access for assistive
technolo
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:00:45PM -0700, Peter Korn wrote:
> As someone working for one of those small number of companies working on
> GNOME, Mozilla, etc. accessibility, I couldn't agree with you more. I
> am appreciative of the contributions IBM has made to our work - perhaps
> in the futur
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:01:50PM -0400, David Bolter wrote:
> That was painful to read.
I've been concerned for some time that much of the work involved in creating
accessibility support for Gnome, Mozilla, etc., has fallen to a small number
of corporate-sponspored developers. That corporate sup
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
>
> If were to summarize in one sentence: "we agree it should be done, but
> it's too hard and nobody is willing to take it on."
> Is there any creative way to get someone fired up to do this?
Maybe a Google "Summer of Code" project n
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:18:03PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Aaron:
>
> This is a good question (about the CONTROLLER relations). It is used
> when interface components which are "separate" objects from the point of
> view of the user or, perhaps, the tookit paradigm, have a tightly
> co
I am still working toward using my Baum INKA braille display with
Brltty and Gnopernicus. This involves helping with the creation of a
Brltty driver and then testing out the support for the
INKA which already exists in the Gnopernicus braille driver.
I managed to have the firmware in my INKA upgra
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