Re: Request for Assistance Finding FLOSS Speech Recognition Software

2012-06-25 Thread Mario Fux
) we plan to do an Accessibility meeting in Randa/Switzerland with people from both Gnome and KDE. Just ask for any further information. > Thanks very much for your time and patience. > Sincerely, > Meg Ford Best regards Mario [1] http://simon-listens.org/index.php?id=122&L=1 ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Accessibility meeting in Randa,Switzerland

2012-05-21 Thread Mario Fux
t: http://doodle.com/svghf38ibdg6k9dv And if you've questions don't hesitated to ask. Oh and please forward this mail to lists and persons you think makes sense. griits & thx Mario [1] http://community.kde.org/Sprints/Randa ___ gnome-accessibility-lis

Fwd: [Jobs] Dringend Absolventen gesucht im Bereich angewandte Informatik an der ZHAW

2012-01-16 Thread Mario Fux
Morning Maybe this is of some interest for you. It's about a job for a scientific assistent in the area of accessibility at a Swiss High School. German language knowledge is necessary. --- Begin Message --- Liebe Studierende, Die ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften sucht pe

Accessibility 2010 Q4 quarterly reports

2011-01-10 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
the deadlines are (guess you'd better ask Joanmarie or Bryen about that), just sharing the link for you to know of it in case you need it. As for me, I added some lines about my WebKitGTK+ work. For reference, check out the 2010 Q3 report [2]. Cheers, Mario [1] http://twitter.com/#!/Joan

Re: DevRoom CfP Proposal

2010-11-30 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
ation by October the 23th, but no answer so far. Mario ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: kmouth or a tts utility

2010-11-13 Thread Mario Fux
herewith). But there is for sure a GNOME equivalent if at least it's a texteditor (Gedit) with the screen reader Orca (sorry I'm no Gnome expert). Thx Mario ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Accessibility devroom FOSDEM 2011

2010-11-03 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 20:34 +0100, Piñeiro wrote: > [...] > It would be also good to know what happened with the people that > already proposed a talk, before this devroom creation. If we need to > submit again the talk or whatever. > > Let's wait for Mario and Bryen discov

Re: Accessibility devroom FOSDEM 2011

2010-11-03 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
oon and > get back to you all. I've just sent a mail to them some minutes ago as well. I'll come back here as soon as I get some information as well. Thanks, Mario ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.

Re: Accessibility devroom FOSDEM 2011

2010-11-03 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
sending proposals- should have received some kind of feedback by October the 23th, IIRC. Mario ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Accessibility track in FOSDEM?

2010-10-14 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
ch (diversity), so I'd love to see other non-GNOME only a11y talks there. > Glad you guys are so keen on this subject and looking forward to seeing > what transpires. Wish I could make it to Belgium just to root for you > guys! Thanks to you for proposing the initial idea. I

Re: Accessibility track in FOSDEM?

2010-10-14 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
in particular) I don't see any problem about submitting such a talk. Even more, I see it pretty interesting so we can create a richer accessibility track that if it were just about GNOME. But in any case, for explicit doubts about this just ask Bryen. I'm just the one trying to push this

Re: Accessibility track in FOSDEM?

2010-10-13 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
El mié, 13-10-2010 a las 18:44 +0100, Patrick Welche escribió: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 04:57:25PM +0200, Mario Sanchez Prada wrote: > > Hence that means we'd already be at 2/3 talks to be proposed, just one > > proposal left ahead from, in case they all got accepted,

Accessibility track in FOSDEM?

2010-10-13 Thread Mario Sanchez Prada
ed proposal for FOSDEM please let us know in this thread and prepare it before October 16th (deadline for main tracks). If we were able to achive the "3 accepted talks" that would be awesome! Thanks, Mario PS: Sorry for coming up with this stuff so late, but I couldn't do it before

GNOME HackFest and visit to a Guadalinfo centre

2010-10-01 Thread Mario
oodle link http://doodle.com/em27d2h7vapkxu67 I'm looking forward to meeting you in person. Best regards, Mario Cámara. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Travel Tips for Going to Spain

2010-09-25 Thread Mario
Hello, My two cents on this: - Yes, its much cheaper to get the money from any ATM at the airport. Usually in Spanish airports (they are all managed by same company) you can find ATMs from 3-4 different banks. There shouldn't be any problem getting the money from any of them, just it could be mor

Re: Information on Caribou

2010-09-16 Thread Mario
Hello, I have been looking on the Caribou webpage and many of the "bugs" have been already solved. I'll ask WARP, the company that has made those changes, to update the page so that the status will be up-to-date. Best regards. Mario. 2010/9/16 Heidi Ellis > Hi Folks, >

Re: RFP - Guadalinex a11y edition

2010-06-10 Thread Mario
Thank you for your comments and just some aclarations. We won't make a new brand distribution. We'll take Ubuntu (probably 10.10) and customize it to include all the a11y applications by default and enable as much of them as possible on startup (this will be a Live distribution). Help will be pro

RFP - Guadalinex a11y edition

2010-06-10 Thread Mario
a spanish equivalent of gnome-voice-control 8. Improvements to Webkitgtk+ [7] 9. Improvements to Cally and GNOME Shell [8] 10. Improvements to mousetweaks [9] Please, feel free to redistribute this email to other lists/persons who can give their opinion or to open a thread in the GNOME website t

Re: [orca-list] Orca Enhancement work

2010-06-01 Thread Mario
Hello, Please have a look at this post: http://hoygan.yaco.es/first-results-in-the-evince-a11y-improvements Just in case you don't know, Consortium Fernando de los Rios is funding this improvement to EVINCE right now [1], and I think there should not be double effort on pursuing the same goal.

Re: [orca-list] Inviting GNOME to participate at an accessibility event

2010-05-17 Thread Mario
Hello everybody, It's great news, that way we could meet in person. I'd like the GNOME Foundation to give a practical workshop on how to make accessible GNOME applications. This could be addressed to the participants of the Concurso de Software Libre [1]. Although in this year contest we added a

Issues about the Consorcio e-accessibility projects

2010-05-04 Thread Mario
Hi, Sanne is absolutely right that the other thread is for discussion about the preconference, so I'm answering the questions related to our project in this new thread. Samuel Thibault: > Yes, it's a separate tool but it depends on liblouis to do all the > transcription. | How different is it

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Mario
the GNOME guidelines so that it will become part of GNOME. 2010/5/4 Samuel Thibault > Mario, le Tue 04 May 2010 12:17:04 +0200, a écrit : > > 5. The creation of a text-to-Braille transcript tool for Spanish Braille > 1. It > > will be done by Onirica. > > Mmm, a separate tool? Or

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Mario
Hello everybody, I'm Mario Camara, manager of the e-Accessibility project at Consorcio Fernando de los Rios, which is a public organization stemed from Junta de Andalucia. Currently, we are funding the following projects which are related to GNOME in a direct way: 1. Improvements to ORC

Re: Using the Java ATK Wrapper with Orca... again

2010-01-09 Thread Mario Lang
Paul Hunt writes: > The odd thing is that the same program does occasionally run but that > error output is the usual response. I can confirm this. In roughly 1 out of 5 tries, Java Swing applications with JAW do run without any problem. So the issue seems to be related to locking in combinati

Re: Using the Java ATK Wrapper with Orca... again

2010-01-07 Thread Mario Lang
Ke Wang writes: > I think the problem is that JAW could not find the so library file. That is one possibility, however, the empty catch block in AtkWrapper silently muffles all possible Exceptions so that debugging initialisation problems becomes pretty obscure. I am refering to this piece of c

Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

2008-10-22 Thread Mario Lang
David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Firefox (and other apps) provides accessibility support conditionally. > This means that on GNOME it always runs a little slower for everyone, > and eats up extra resources. I wonder if we could have GNOME > accessibility turned on, but a sepa

Re: What is the proper way of launching Speech Dispatcher?

2008-08-14 Thread Mario Lang
Hynek Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang wrote: >> I dont want to intrude on a topic that I might be failing to understand, >> but wouldn't this kind of defeat one good point about >> Speech Dispatcher, namely that it is ment to be used by different

Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-14 Thread Mario Lang
Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang writes: >> This usage pattern triggers an anoying problem here: The X11 >> screen saver has kicked in every time I switch back to my >> X11 console (Alt+F7). While I understand why there is a password >> p

Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-13 Thread Mario Lang
doable somehow. > The X server knows when it loses focus however. Well, thats of no use here since if the X server looses focus but no further keyboard interaction happens, the screen saver should still start to protect the users account... > Mario Lang, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 18:47:25

Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-13 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. Now that Orca really works great these days, I do have a logged in GNOME session on my workstation all the time. However, since the braille support for gnome-terminal is still lacking a few things I really got used to as a long term syssadmin on the linux console with BRLTTY, I do not do all

Re: What is the proper way of launching Speech Dispatcher?

2008-08-13 Thread Mario Lang
Hynek Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd like to ask if placing a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/ > is the right way to start Speech Dispatcher for gnome session. I dont want to intrude on a topic that I might be failing to understand, but wouldn't this kind of defeat one go

Re: ASUS Eee PC

2008-06-30 Thread Mario Lang
Kris Van Hees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone here looked at the ASUS Eee PC in terms of accessibility and > whether it is feasible to e.g. install Orca on it (along with all > dependencies) > to provide access to a blind user? I am using a EEE PC with Orca, brltty and the usual Linux a

Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?

2006-12-18 Thread Mario Lang
curacy. >> >> Have you nice day >> >> -- >> >> Jan Buchal >> Tel: (00420) 24 24 86 008 >> Mob: (00420) 608023021 >> >> ___ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> gnome-acces

Re: Getting debian's gnopernicus to talk and java access bridge to compile

2006-04-20 Thread Mario Lang
and explain actually why this is so? -- CYa, Mario ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: (no subject)

2005-10-10 Thread Mario Lang
for the > brttly package. So, and here is where I start to get pissed. Get your facts straight man. This is flat out wrong. Debian was the first distribution to support brltty in gnopernius out of the box. AFAIR, Ubuntu deliberately broke this functionality when they copied over my pac

Re: Gnopernicus Sending Output to Serial Device Crashes Hardware Synthesizer

2005-02-14 Thread Mario Lang
h more time than creating the actual patch... I'd really like if there were a simple, nicely documented email submission interface. Kind of a chicken egg thing, with a complicated bug tracking system, we probably loose bug reports by people trying to

Re: cut and paste in gnome-terminal

2005-02-03 Thread Mario Lang
Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario said, of the assertion that cut-and-paste is a function of the > application, not the terminal: > >> That sounds more like an excuse than a solution to me :-) >> >> > I know what you mean. However, it is t

Re: cut and paste in gnome-terminal

2005-02-01 Thread Mario Lang
he wouldnt accidentally miss them. A simple cursor based mouse movement method would probably have helped her. (Maybe we already have that, but we'll need to make sure that it works in combination with screen readers like say, gnopernicus) Just my 2 euro cents. -- CYa, Mario

Re: running gui apps from consul

2005-01-31 Thread Mario Lang
screen" text UI, and since > Gtk+ applications are rarely designed to fit requirements of a > text-only display, they won't necessarily work very well. > > OTOH, you can run almost full Gtk+ on Linux framebuffers using > DirectFB port of Gtk+[2]. What will suit you bette