Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:25:56PM EST, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > And while I still philosophically believe that ultimately we should not > have to need such spinoffs, your efforts currently show that there is > value and help pave the way to the true philosophy of a11y. I agree with this. To thi

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 20:52 -0400, Bill Cox wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > > I guess the next question for all of us is, do we have a compiled list > > somewhere of A!!Y-oriented distros? > > No, but that would be very cool. I know there's Knoppix Adriane, >

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Cox
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > I guess the next question for all of us is, do we have a compiled list > somewhere of A!!Y-oriented distros? No, but that would be very cool. I know there's Knoppix Adriane, Vinux, Belin, and now Linux Acessível 10.04. There are also ef

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 01:16 +0100, Rui Batista wrote: > hi, > Seg, 2010-06-07 às 16:37 -0400, Bill Cox escreveu: > > We certainly try to work with other a11y distros and efforts. The > > best example is probably the relationship we have with Hammer > Attila, > > who runs a version of Linux called

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Rui Batista
hi, Seg, 2010-06-07 às 16:37 -0400, Bill Cox escreveu: > We certainly try to work with other a11y distros and efforts. The > best example is probably the relationship we have with Hammer Attila, > who runs a version of Linux called Belin for Hungarian users. I > certainly hope he feels we've help

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Cox
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > So my next question is, do you coordinate well with other a11y spinoffs? > For example, I saw a Portuguese language based A11y spinoff based on > Ubuntu last week.  Is there communication going on with the different > spinoffs? It really

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:44 -0400, Bill Cox wrote: > Hi, Bryen. You're question is a good one. The answer is simple: We > need Vinux because it enables us to increase the rate of improvement > of accessibility in all the major Linux distros. > > We're making real progress with Vinux, and we're f

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Bryen. You're question is a good one. The answer is simple: We need Vinux because it enables us to increase the rate of improvement of accessibility in all the major Linux distros. We're making real progress with Vinux, and we're feeding our improvements as rapidly upstream as they will take

Announce: mousetweaks 2.31.3

2010-06-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Dear reader, Mousetweaks version 2.31.3 has been released and can be downloaded from: http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/2.31/ sha256sum of mousetweaks-2.31.3.tar.bz2: bc7a1c411c465ebce5c4abebd41bf32146ca23dcd77c3c69fb48da256bed9b29 sha256sum of mousetweaks-2.31.3.tar.gz cdee0dd8ec

RE: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi Bryen, This was a point of contention when a first started the Vinux project. The answer is that I personally didn't feel that the mainstream distros where accessible or easy enough to use for beginners coming to Linux for the first time. They had to know the keybindings and/or how to instal

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:03 +0100, Anthony Sales wrote: > On behalf of the whole Vinux community I am happy to announce the 3rd release > of Vinux - Linux for the Visually Impaired, based on Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid > Lynx. This version of Vinux provides three screen-readers, two full-screen > magni

Re: [orca-list] OpenTTS 0.1 released.

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Cox
I'll throw out my preferred solution, though as I often state, my opinion on this matter doesn't count. Hynek, as the original author and maintainer, you have as much or more to contribute than anyone else. Why not join the OpenTTS team? The system they've set up seems to be working very well, a

Re: OpenTTS 0.1 released.

2010-06-07 Thread Hynek Hanke
On 6.6.2010 05:09, Luke Yelavich wrote: I am proud to announce the very first release of OpenTTS, version 0.1. Dear Luke Yelavich, It is a pure nonsense that the development of OpenTTS started two months ago. You know very well that it is a fork of the Speech Dispatcher project which has been

Re: FW: Vinux 3.0 Released!

2010-06-07 Thread Esteban Arias
what full-screen do you use? 2010/6/1 Anthony Sales > On behalf of the whole Vinux community I am happy to announce the 3rd > release of Vinux - Linux for the Visually Impaired, based on Ubuntu 10.04 - > Lucid Lynx. This version of Vinux provides three screen-readers, two > full-screen magnifier

Announce: mousetweaks 2.31.2

2010-06-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Dear reader, Mousetweaks version 2.31.3 has been released and can be downloaded from: http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/2.31/ sha256sum of mousetweaks-2.31.3.tar.bz2: bc7a1c411c465ebce5c4abebd41bf32146ca23dcd77c3c69fb48da256bed9b29 sha256sum of mousetweaks-2.31.3.tar.gz cdee0dd8ec

Re: Enhancing GTK+ TreeView accessibility

2010-06-07 Thread Li Yuan
Hi Bill, On 06/ 7/10 06:59 PM, Bill Cox wrote: Hi, Li. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Li Yuan wrote: We have a bug for gailtreeview's performance: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577098, and we have done some analysis work there. Hopefully we can help out with this bug

Re: Enhancing GTK+ TreeView accessibility

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Li. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Li Yuan wrote: > We have a bug for gailtreeview's performance: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577098, and we have done some > analysis work there. Hopefully we can help out with this bug over in Vinux land. > I haven't read the code of gcon

Re: Announcing hackfest, minutes etc

2010-06-07 Thread Piñeiro
From: "Bryen M. Yunashko" > And don't be intimidated by the term "hackfest." It doesn't necessarily > mean you need to be a technical wiz at coding to participate. For > example, should I go, and depending on who else goes, I'll be focused on > some marketing-related hackfesting related to GNO