[g-a-devel] Ideas wanted for Project:Possibility

2011-10-17 Thread Steve Lee
ously a team worked on Caribou features. Thanks -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [g-a-devel] Review small tasks suitable for student competition

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Lee
On 11 January 2011 13:58, Steve Lee wrote: > Apart from the chance to get student experience with real open source > communities I see this as an important opportunity to raise awareness > about GNOME a11y. This is important as the general community really > don't know about

Re: [g-a-devel] Review small tasks suitable for student competition

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Lee
really don't know about it and there's no such thing as 'build it and they will come'. Being at CSUN is important and being there with a booth, talks and proj pos students will all add up to good exposure.. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

[g-a-devel] Review small tasks suitable for student competition

2010-12-30 Thread Steve Lee
SmallTasks -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Caribou: suggestion of some features

2010-12-09 Thread Steve Lee
Jiro In case you haven't seen them, there are some requirements questions being asked on the GNOME accessibility wiki to guide development. perhaps you would like to respond there? http://live.gnome.org/Caribou/RequirementsQuestions#preview Steve Lee On 1 December 2010 13:06, Jiro Mats

[g-a-devel] Oxford BarCamp unconference 4 & 5th April

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lee
of the following: * Open development techniques and practices * Web 2.0 style data mashups * Use of and engagement with The Apache Software Foundations projects -- Steve Lee OSS Watch www.oss-watch.ac.uk Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk

Re: [g-a-devel] SPI_COORD_TYPE_WINDOW

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Lee
ue to the window frame/border/furniture ? Included in one and not the other? > Do these relationships always hold? If so, Is this documented somewhere? If the above is the reson the answer will be no as will depend on WM in use and user options etc -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Techn

Re: [g-a-devel] Which window is on top?

2009-01-02 Thread Steve Lee
I would not be able to distinguish them. >> >> This brings up two questions: >> >> 1. Is there a way to map from an at-spi Accessible *value to its >>associated XWindow window? >> 2. Is there a better alternative than XWindows for doing this? >> >&

Re: [g-a-devel] Which window is on top?

2009-01-02 Thread Steve Lee
2008/12/31 Quiring, Sam : > I cannot find a way to figure out what window is on top > nor the zorder relationship of the windows. Sam, this is something where you may need to look outside the a11y API. e.g the windows manager Happy new year -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology So

Re: [g-a-devel] registering/deregistering event listeners

2008-12-13 Thread Steve Lee
http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/PythonPoweredAccessibility Steve > -Sam > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Lee [mailto:st...@fullmeasure.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:48 AM > To: Quiring, Sam > Cc: gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [g-a-d

Re: [g-a-devel] registering/deregistering event listeners

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Lee
st put events in my own queue and dequeue in idle processing - in other words make processing asynch. I don't know what the official position is. Steve Lee ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mai

Re: [g-a-devel] exposing characteristics of dates in a calendar

2008-12-08 Thread Steve Lee
Isn't Description potentially internationalised as well, so adding problems? -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk 2008/12/8 Peter Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mike, > > Description is designed for human-reading, not

[g-a-devel] BBC on alt input

2008-10-17 Thread Steve Lee
I just saw this on the TV http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7676552.stm Nothing new but still interesting. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Announcing AEGIS - a €12.6m inve stment in open source accessibility

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Lee
Peter this is totally fantastic and even better news than I had hoped for. Thank you for all your hard work making this possible. Many, many people are going to benefit from the improved open accessibility. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility

[g-a-devel] fwd: Eye Gaze Study Day - 5 November 2008, London

2008-10-10 Thread Steve Lee
with MouseTrap... http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/225753.html. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk Eye Gaze Study Day - 5 November 2008, London Eye Gaze has long been considered to offer vast potential as an access metho

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

2008-10-01 Thread Steve Lee
create a task for >> > someone to create a bunch of short screencast videos of the assistive >> > technologies in action (i.e., here's theming, here's stickykeys, here's >> > bouncekeys, here's GOK in dwell mode, here's Dasher, here's Mouse

Re: [g-a-devel] Accessible cross-platform toolkit?

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Lee
ble and work with file:// (which DOjo does). I decide not to this currently due to time constraints and am just using XUL + modules + C++ XPCOM Cheers -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk _

Re: [g-a-devel] Accessible cross-platform toolkit?

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Lee
ld be a nice > addition in the list of target platforms, but I guess > this is even more unrealistic right now, or am I wrong? > I hope I am :-) Depending on what you are trying to do you might like to look at the Mozilla platform, XUL It's cross platform and has good core accessi

Re: [g-a-devel] startup of a11y tools

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Lee
Excellent. That bugged me if I waited after power up before logging on but I couldn't repro on demand. I discussed with Ubuntu (Luke?) but we got nowhere so really pleased it's been fixed. Way cool I have no other issues with a11y on all the time. ;-) -- Steve Lee -- Open Source

Re: [g-a-devel] startup of a11y tools

2008-05-03 Thread Steve Lee
ous use case is inclusive schools where students will be treated more equal if they can use a variety of machines. It strikes me as even more important now Becta are receiving tenders on an Open Source school project in the UK. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software we

Re: [g-a-devel] startup of a11y tools

2008-05-03 Thread Steve Lee
rast in high background light levels for a demo. However the categories might well help users who are unsure. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] startup of a11y tools

2008-05-03 Thread Steve Lee
ssion. I like the 'task' based approach and it's fine while the list remains managably small (I noticed that the mouse tweaks option is missing). -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk bl

[g-a-devel] live.gnome.org access problems

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
Is anyone else having problem accessing http://live.gnome.org or http://209.132.176.175. Over the last week or so I usually get timeouts or errors, though I can ping the IP. Perhaps this is a UK or UK timing issue? -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk

Re: [g-a-devel] Interesting open source, low-cost eye tracking system

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > > > > ___ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access

Re: [g-a-devel] [Accessibility] Re: [Accessibility-atspi] D-Bus AT-SPI - The way forward

2007-12-17 Thread Steve Lee
uirement as you need to know if a change furthet up the tree possibly effects your 'state' -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnom

Re: [g-a-devel] [Accessibility] Re: [Accessibility-atspi] D-Bus AT-SPI - The way forward

2007-12-14 Thread Steve Lee
ccasional timing issues due to the latency . At least we can assume reads/writes will not be pre-empted (I hope). So the onus is on the AT writer to sort it out. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-a

Re: [g-a-devel] Tapir predictive keyboard

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Lee
On 28/11/2007, David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks slick. Is this already going to become part of GNOME via Dasher? > cheers, David MacKay has indicated that it will be a separate project as far as they are concerned upstream. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access

[g-a-devel] Tapir predictive keyboard

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Lee
.phy.cam.ac.uk/tapir/ -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Royal National Institute for the Blind low-vision fonts now under GPL v3 - include in GNOME?

2007-11-24 Thread Steve Lee
True Type (.ttf) I just unzipped and then dragged into fonts:/// which I opened in nautilus. However that does a user specific install in ~/.fonts so is no good for pre installation. Perhaps they go in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/XXX plus a little config magic? They're GPL 3 if that ma

Re: [g-a-devel] AT-SPI D-Bus investigation

2007-11-23 Thread Steve Lee
I'm wondering how useful the results for cspi are seeing that it has been declared obsolete AFAIK? Does the fact that it ends up calling at-spi outweigh any possible differences in the way it works? Steve Lee On 23/11/2007, Li Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > >

Re: [g-a-devel] At-spi registery daemon.

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Lee
al services such as event notification (Observer DP). http://www.gnome.org/~billh/at-spi-idl/html/classAccessibility_1_1Registry.html -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list

Re: [g-a-devel] At-spi registery daemon.

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Lee
notification (Observer DP). http://www.gnome.org/~billh/at-spi-idl/html/classAccessibility_1_1Registry.html -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibi

Re: [g-a-devel] [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Lee
screen and then you can click again on the magnified image This means that people with a tremor/reduced clicking accuracy can click on 'small' objects without needing a good 'click-resolution'... This has been used, for example, with eye-gaze, but I think might be general

Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-speech, and audio output, moving forward.

2007-10-16 Thread Steve Lee
to check for orca in the say() function and having orca check at startup. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing li

Re: [g-a-devel] Could you demo mousetweaks at accessibility summit

2007-10-07 Thread Steve Lee
nfused over the boundaries. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.

Re: [g-a-devel] Could you demo mousetweaks at accessibility summit

2007-10-06 Thread Steve Lee
hFile&do=get&target=moustweaks-video.ogg > > > Have a successful accessibility summit. > > Francesco Fumanti > > PS: Willie Walker and David Bolter might also be interested in a demo > of onboard. > > -- Steve Lee

Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Steve Lee
for the short term. Obviously entry level advances rapidly so we should focus more effort the higher spec. I guess many users would only start to consider changing to Linux at the point that they need a new PC (though Linux would perform very well on their older kit) so that also suggests develop

Re: [g-a-devel] Role of automated testing frameworks (was Re: Status of IBM a11y)

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Lee
r test applications that way may only access some of the exposed a11y functionality so further specific a11ying test is be desirable to ensure AT is properly supported. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software PowerTalk - your presenta

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Lee
away at CSUN. I encourage others to do like wise in similar magazines in other countries. The proprietary model is so ingrained it needs those guerrilla marketing tactics (which also happen to match Open Source's attention to recognising users needs). -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Techno

Re: [g-a-devel] ATK and windows

2007-05-04 Thread Steve Lee
ides atk interfaces on behalf of GTK+ widgets but we'd eventually want to support custom or non GTK widgets with their own atk interfaces. Plus I wonder if GTK might access ATK direct. -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk ___

[g-a-devel] ATK and windows

2007-05-03 Thread Steve Lee
ding a Corba port to windows). Now we have IA2 could a bridge work, assuming we could afford to make gtk apps only accessible via IA2? Can we afford to be in process only? -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk ___ Gnome

Re: [g-a-devel] Are action names localized?

2007-02-14 Thread Steve Lee
ty-devel@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > >> ___ > >> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > >> Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > >> > >> > > > > ___ > > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > > Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > > ___ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Are action names localized?

2007-02-14 Thread Steve Lee
man/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > ___ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Trying to understand STATE_SENSITIVE

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Lee
d. > > Will > > > _______ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > -- Steve Lee www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Trying to understand STATE_SENSITIVE

2007-01-18 Thread Steve Lee
; >> Not sure about this last question. I think "no" since states like this > >> aren't usually applied to groups, only to individual actionable > >> components (and the individual radio buttons are probably not, in this > >> case, indeterminate). &