Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 20:16 -0500, Christian Hofstader wrote: > cdh: I agree entirely. THe idea I had was to start an entirely new > project but use parts of Orca where such would be convenient. Is there a danger of depending on Orca for this support? I fear there be. Perhaps the thing to do inst

Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-08 Thread Christian Hofstader
> > joanie: Having said that Orca is a screen reader; Orca is not a tool > designed for users who are not visually impaired. Trying to make Orca > into a one-size-fits-all tool will inevitably turn it into a tool whose > functionality is either too complex or too diluted, meeting no one's > ne

Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey Mats, all. On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 01:33 +0100, Mats Lundälv wrote: [...] > I was discussing this with Joanmarie some time ago, > and she was very positive to take a look at it. If you mean things like: * Only speak displayed text and NOT context (roles, states, etc.) * Sentence keyboard ec

Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-08 Thread Mats Lundälv
-Christian Hofstader skrev: -I would love to work on a system wide "screen reader" for people with learning disabilities. Something like K3000 (KESI) or WYNN from FS. Using the Gnome accessibility features along with visual effects should be able to do something really innovative.Christian

Re: Text alternatives and GtkPixbuf [Was: GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility]

2012-01-08 Thread Bill Cox
Sorry, Benjamin. I'll try to keep it straight. Here's the problem with pixbuf that makes solving this issue hard without adding an accessible description directly to pixbuf. GTK does not build widgets for cells in lists, tables, and trees. Instead, you register a callback function that is respo

AT for LD

2012-01-08 Thread Christian Hofstader
I would love to work on a system wide "screen reader" for people with learning disabilities. Something like K3000 (KESI) or WYNN from FS. Using the Gnome accessibility features along with visual effects should be able to do something really innovative. On Jan 7, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Bill Cox wro

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-08 Thread Juanjo Marín
- Mensaje original - > De: Jason White > > I think the Gnome accessibility community has a good grasp of the technical > issues that have to be addressed, including the lack of appropriate > documentation for desktop and application developers as to how to implement > accessibility int

Re: Text alternatives and GtkPixbuf [Was: GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility]

2012-01-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Bill Cox wrote: > I've read that you are doing a lot of code enhancements for a11y You're thinking of a different Benjamin - Benjamin Otte. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessi