Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-30 Thread elciof
Thanks. I am going to subscribe myself on Orca maillist and read more about ORCA scripts. The application I am working on don't not allow to the users do anything different from interacting with numeric keyboard with the options we give on the screen and a headphone output devic

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Willie Walker
I'm not sure of the logistics of a phone in possibility. They ALWAYS are very difficult when there are a large number of people in one room and a few on the phone. In my experience, we can easily spend more time with getting the call set up and "I can't hear you" problems than we do actually bein

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Ian, Thank you for joining this conversation! I have a question about your C, below. If the magnifier can only offer, let's say, basic magnification everywhere; but on 5 year old and younger hardware it can also do really nice font smoothing and provide an overlay circle around the mouse a

RE: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Pascoe
Gentlemen Being one of Will's referred to end users, I am following this thread with interest. In general work I fall into the category of screen reader and magnifier. Ignoring the various details on internal communication and window managers, the following are, for me, the over-riding necessiti

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues DiĆ³genes
2007/8/30, Peter Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Willie, Carlos, gang, > > > ... > > > >>> Are you coming to GNOME Boston 2007? Magnification is one of the > >>> critical things we want to talk about for the accessibility summit. > >>> > >> Ow... it would be a dream :-), but I don't have passport a

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Willie, Carlos, gang, > ... > >>> Are you coming to GNOME Boston 2007? Magnification is one of the >>> critical things we want to talk about for the accessibility summit. >>> >> Ow... it would be a dream :-), but I don't have passport and don't >> have money, so no :-(, but I really

Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-30 Thread Tom Masterson
I also prefer a screen reader to self voicing. Whenever possible I will choose braille over speech. Tom On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > Personally I preffer the screen reader approach over self voicing apps. > Using the screen reader lets me do things like change > rate, vo

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Willie Walker
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:14 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues DiĆ³genes wrote: > > * Eliminating the Bonobo dependency from accessibility stuff in GNOME. > > Note that this doesn't necessarily equate to eliminating CORBA. > > I really have no idea how much impact this would cause. I learned only >

Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. Personally I preffer the screen reader approach over self voicing apps. Using the screen reader lets me do things like change rate, voice, and most important ignore things when I become familiar with the app. YOu can't do this with most self voicing apps I've tried. There's nothing more a

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Peter Korn wrote: > Assume that without GL, we can have a magnifier of quality 5, and with > GL a magnifier of quality 10 (just an assumption for sake of argument, > please bear with me). Since GL now runs on even somewhat older video > hardware, and you can get a GL card for not much money if

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

2007-08-30 Thread Steve Lee
On 30/08/2007, Peter Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assume that without GL, we can have a magnifier of quality 5, and with > GL a magnifier of quality 10 (just an assumption for sake of argument, > please bear with me). Since GL now runs on even somewhat older video > hardware, and you can get