Dear all
I've been listening to the Shot of Jaq (www.shotofjaq.org), a more to the
point version of LUG Radio as was. In last Friday's "shot", they discussed
a new project called Quicker, that enables developers to start a new Gnome
app, and publish it, with the developer only having to worry abo
Hi
I presume that DBus is not launched early enough to act as a transport
mechanisum? I wonder if into these current discussions thought should also
be made too to other desktop environments? If DBus is launched at GDM, then
buy using this we aren't setting up yet another hash to achieve a resu
Can we please clarify how we believe things work at the moment - just so as
we all know where we're starting from.
Ian
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Brian
Thanks, that's great for the log in. What currently happens on the log out
and return to GDM - does the AT, if activated at log in re-enliven, or does
it return to the GDM default state?
I presume that if AT is launched by GDM, the ATs are killed before the
desktop is launched thereby avoi
Hi
I haven't been keeping track of things lately on this list, so if this has
already been mentioned, apologies.
http://lwn.net/Articles/333751/
Is this particular project being integrated into the A11Y infrastructure?
It looks as though it's Orca and Speech Despatcher independant.
Ian
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Hi Folks
Following on from Brian's postings about on screen notifications for the
deaf user, I wonder if this notifier could be changed to act as a useful
tool in the visual notifier space especially as they seem to be aiming to
get a number of apps to issue notifications properly?
Apologies if p
Hi
We seem so far to be inter mingleing both Gnome and Windows into this
discussion. Could people please state which OS their comments apply to in
the first instance?
If I understand what Will has said, the current situation is very much akin
to a chicken and egg one - we want AT to be dynamic,
Hi all
Just finished installing GTK+ and Pigeon onto a Windows XP machine,
together with the GIMP.
I don't appear to be able to get Windows accessability functioning with
this - I'm using ZoomText.
I see that there is a GLADE implementation for Windows, but don't know if
that's whats required o
Chris
Out of the box I'm afraid I don't know.
However, as an alternative you could load up Ubuntu onto it, with it's
accessability options turned on, and away you go. Details are found on the
Ubuntu weiki I believe.
Ian
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Kristian
From the little technical knowledge I have, your proposal seems to be clear and
well thought out.
I would like to emphasise one point that you make, that of any development
being, ideally, communication protocol independant.
The reason for this is twofold: firstly, to ensure that any
Luke
Following up on one of the points mentioned in this thread.
How easy / practical would it be to have a Launchpad tree / repository that
includes all the current stable up to date accessibility type apps and
services? My thinking is that with the fast work being done in various
areas, the ma
Following on from Steve's point 3 below.
With the higher availability of interconnects and CPU performance, more and
more corporate organisations are moving to a thinner client infrastructure.
In addition, the cost benefits are also making the thin client ideal more
attractive to educational estab
Hi all
This sounds like a step in the right direction. Just to confirm my
understanding, the GDM screen you refer to is the main log in screen? If
that is right, then read on!
Apologies for a basic question here, but how can you define a user's
particular configuration until that user has logge
Will
Couple of thoughts.
Firstly, to ensure that the commonly shipped basic Gnome apps that appears
on base distros all have accessability enabled as fully as possible. Maybe
a two stage process:
A. Ensure that keyboard shortcuts are activated and supported - is there
such a thing as a Gnome s
There is always the option of providing an overlay keyboard along the lines
of a standard mobile texting interface as an alternative to waiting for a
proper QWERTY keyboard.
>From a personal viewpoint I believe that there is still much apprehension in
the non technical minded people about using to
Hi all
Firstly, a Happy and Prosperous New Year to everyone.
Following an announcement by Amazon in the US to launch it's own eBook
reader, I wondered if there was anything on the market that would allow a
hack to incorporate a TTS engine into either this or any other eBook reader
to allow me to
Whoops! Sorry Gilles
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Hi all
I use the Trakker a lot, and like it very much indeed.
A couple of comments on the thread
All
I agree with Willie's road map for the initial touch point, but would
suggest, well actually insist, that the page is in plain English, without
technical terms or jargon used. From here you can move to the additional
areas of, for instance, developers, advanced users, testers, standard users,
Hi all
The responses I've seen so far on this topic has been like a who's who of
the Gnome A11Y community!
I would like to raise a tentative hand to join as a user, as I agree that
without the input of the actual users, how would you know if the direction
you were to take was the right one. That
Hi Peter
I would expect the magnifier's base features to be able to support:
- a magnification window, either full or partial screen
- the ability to have the mouse pointer either fixed centrally and the
screen move instead of the pointer, or the mouse pointer when hitting the
magnification windo
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
Hi
Standard system sounds are good for me. For instance, the "you've entered
that wrongly" or "you've pressed the wrong key" sounds
The problem with having no system sounds is that if you have an input error,
like described above, you won't generally speaking get a dialogue box or
such like to l
open source projects.
Alternatively, if there is some slides with notes available that I can nab I
will have a go myself.
Ian
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Agreed with Peter and Bill, why re-invent the wheel?
Takeing this to the next logical step.
If you have a normal un-disabled user they would not want AT-SPI or similar
technology launched at this point, only those of us who need it.
I don't know how practical or codeable it would be but if prior
Hi All
I recently got on my hobbyhorse at a Perl meet here in the UK and ranted and
raved for a couple of minutes about developers writing stuff that didn't
interface with any Accessability infrastructure. Now, in the truest of
traditions , they have asked me to point them towards the docs that c
Hi all
This is a really daft question but I need to ask it!
On my Windows installation I use ZoomText and it has TTS's associated with
it that I am familiar with - is it possible to move these across to use with
Orca?
I'm guessing the answer is no, but if I don't ask I won't know
Cheers
Ian
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Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all
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> Some thoughts that have been kind of troubling me over the past.
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Hi all
Some thoughts that have been kind of troubling me over the past.
There have been various postings in the past about compatability , or lack
of it, with various applications. The most notable being that of Firefox
just recently. In my ignorance, should the community be aiming to get those
Hi All
A bad news, good news story.
I have spent the past 6 hours with a very experienced sighted hand trying to
install Ubuntu onto my PC. Firstly, the CD, which was burned today, ran
well as a Live CD. However, we hit a major problem with the install onto
the PC.
The PC set up was a Windows
Hi All
I am having some guys from the local LUG come around to mine tomorrow to
load up Ubuntu 6 - not sure which sub version - onto my PC.
Can you please let me know what accessability is in-built into this distro?
I want to achieve as near as possible an equivilant to Windows ZoomText in
funct
Hi all
Just picking up on some recent threads.
Like most things in our arena it is down to personal preferance. For myself
as a touch typist I favour the adjust in voice tone to indicate the status
of the Caps Lock; taking on Dave's point about many fingers on the keyboard
whilst away maybe a ho
Hi all
I am not sure if this is correct for this list inparticular, but here goes
anyway.
Most of the postings on this list is to do with what appears on the screen
and making it accessable to those who have impairments.
I have been looking for sometime for something that will enable me to scan
Hi List
I am a visually impaired person currently working on a Windows based PC and
have been looking at getting a Linux distro on and working as a dual boot
system.
So far I have shied away from this as members of the LUG I belong to have
had bad experiences using Live CDs when truying to set up
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