I came across this on Planet Gnome and thought it would be of interest
if no-one heard of. Apologises if you all already know this and I'm a
bit slow on the uptake :-)
http://blog.floopily.org/2008/04/23/nokia-funds-d-bus-based-accessibility/
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I'm beta-testing the latest version of Ubuntu Hardy.
I noticed that the Totem player now have plugin's one of which allows
you to access MythTV recordings.
This works flawlessly, however my issue with Totem is that in UK,
digital TV use MPEG2, with subtitle streams in the video file which can
't want to have to run
> Compiz-Fusion just to see my Linux desktop and partly non-selfish in
> that I don't see a need to have the same hardware requirements as
> Compiz-Fusion just for the visually impaired to be able to use a Linux
> box (easily).
>
> Richard Pow
ed, i.e. static, area. In trying to read
> text on a screen I need it to dynamically move as I scan the text. It's
> great in what it does but it does not lend itself to reading.
>
> Richard Powell
>
> JGJones wrote:
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > How i
Just wondering...
How is the Compiz's Zoom function for you? - I've mapped it to use the
(Win) key and so while I press the Windows key, and then scroll
the mouse wheel up - it'll zoom into around the cursor smoothly as much
as you want and the screen moves around with the cursor.
You can zoo
See below
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:39 +0200, Guillaume Olivrin wrote:
> Here is an additional list of enhancements for accessible Video Phones :
>
> a. The ability to switch OFF the sound totally (no emission, no
> reception, just like for Video, keep the bandwidth for video ONLY);
Agreed - b
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:59 -0600, Bryen wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:42 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > As part of the "GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility" effort, we have
> > some 'smaller' tasks to focus on bug fixing in some key modules. For
> > several rea
Just a thought...
Obviously if you're using Totem, and have a srt file or similar, it
shows up perfectly well.
As for CC vs subtitles, I find it complex myself - as being in UK, we
don't have CC on TV's or DVD's etc (for example you'll only find CC in
use on Region 1 DVD's mostly) but mostly rest
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
