At 9:35 AM -0500 12/20/07, Willie Walker wrote:
>The top level page, http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility, will be our
>face to the world. It should be relatively short, clear, and easy to
>navigate by our target visitors. Much of this information is already
>available; we just need to organize it
Very cool. It wasn't my intention to actually start the brainstorming
on this thread, but there you have it. :)
So now that all this great information is out in the wild, how do we
make it easy to find? I know the mailing list archives are recording
this information, but someone really has to be l
Hi Peter, David,
Re: the Nokia as an open source-based accessible talking GPS, in fact
the open source GPS software already available for the N800 will use
Flite (which has been ported to the N800) to give speech output. The
main problem, as was already noted in this thread, is getting map dat
David Bolter wrote:
> Gilles Casse wrote:
>> Peter Parente wrote:
>>
>>> A custom navigation app could make use of
>>> either for stepping through directions en route.
>>>
>> The Neo1973 (OpenMoko) is also another possible platform. I have
>> recently integrated on the Neo, Navit (navigat
Gilles Casse wrote:
> Peter Parente wrote:
>
>> A custom navigation app could make use of
>> either for stepping through directions en route.
>>
>
> The Neo1973 (OpenMoko) is also another possible platform. I have
> recently integrated on the Neo, Navit (navigation software) with speech
On 21/12/2007, Peter Parente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what could we do to push the envelope under the same premise, that
> is, reuse existing, commodity hardware and platforms? The Nokia N800
> line of Internet tablet products with Maemo comes to mind. It's
> GNOME-based, supports open devel
Peter Parente wrote:
> A custom navigation app could make use of
> either for stepping through directions en route.
The Neo1973 (OpenMoko) is also another possible platform. I have
recently integrated on the Neo, Navit (navigation software) with speech
feedback (Speech-dispatcher + espeak). The
Peter Parente wrote:
>> Choice quote: "we have succumbed to the tyranny of the popular, the
>> typical, the average, or the norm"... but let's not! We should be able
>> to go so much farther and faster in FOSS land...
>>
>
> Simply getting together to talk in an open forum helps spark new
>
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:42:22 -0500
> From: "Peter Parente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee
> To: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
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> Back on the technica
> Choice quote: "we have succumbed to the tyranny of the popular, the
> typical, the average, or the norm"... but let's not! We should be able
> to go so much farther and faster in FOSS land...
Simply getting together to talk in an open forum helps spark new
ideas. Some of the best brainstorming
Steve Lee wrote:
>> 3) Brainstorming / developing improvements that push the envelope in
>> the user experience. It's great to have a set of familiar assistive
>> technologies for people to use today when migrating to GNOME from
>> other platforms. But a benefit of developing on an open stack with
I noticed this posting via this blog -
http://www.themuso.com/blogs/TheMusoGNOME_Accessibility_bright_future
I'll like to join this listing and am interested in helping to make
accessibility better in Gnome. Some brief information about myself, I'm
a IT manager for a Deaf owned and run company in
> 3) Brainstorming / developing improvements that push the envelope in
> the user experience. It's great to have a set of familiar assistive
> technologies for people to use today when migrating to GNOME from
> other platforms. But a benefit of developing on an open stack with an
> excellent (the b
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