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2014-02-14 Thread Peter Korn
Joseph, In addition to getting input from the current users, I think it may be helpful to think about the impacts of different vision impairments, and what features may best help folks with those differences. For example, some people experience a loss of central vision (e.g. macular degenera

Re: Interested in expanding Dasher for use with an IDE to program

2013-06-05 Thread Peter Korn
component on gnome bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=dasher Best regards -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065

Re: Low-Vision user observation

2012-09-29 Thread Peter Korn
low-vision accessibility. Perhaps some surveys or something? Or does something already exist and I missed the boat on it? Bryen ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-access

Re: Exploring LibreOffice Accessibility with Accerciser.

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Korn
org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 506 9522 Oracle Corporate Architecture Group 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 Note: @sun.com e-mail addresses will sho

Attending CSUN next week?

2012-02-23 Thread Peter Korn
Hi gang, Just curious - who from the GNOME accessibility world will be at CSUN next week?  I'm there Monday evening through Friday evening...  Might be nice to get together for lunch or coffee or...  Peter -- Peter Korn | Accessib

Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Korn
-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065

Re: Can the community work with Gnome to improve GTK+ a11y?

2012-01-05 Thread Peter Korn
disabled, and other information. -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 Oracle is committed to developing practices and products

Re: Pictogram support (Montreal Summit)

2011-10-25 Thread Peter Korn
e-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 506 9522 Oracle Corporate Architecture Group 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 Oracle is committed to developing practices and

Re: GNOME High Contrast Icon Theme

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Korn
lity-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 506 9522 Oracle Corporate Architecture Group 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065

Re: Negativ Layout in Gnome 3

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Korn
_ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle P

Re: Ideas needed!

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Korn
wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 11:35 -0800, Peter Korn wrote: Bryen, I suggest photos & screen shots - more than just text bullets on slides.  Photos of folks in Extremadura & Andalusia - the public computing labs & schools - with folks

Re: Ideas needed!

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Korn
travel to San Diego. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessi

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Korn
in the day), I'm of the opinion that the overhead cost in abstracting the different approaches & hooks & such for the different platforms is likely not worth the cost - vs. just developing separate efforts which share ideas. Peter -- Pet

Re: 2011 Conferences

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Korn
_ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 Oracle is committed to developing pra

Re: Who is speaking at CSUN this year?

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Korn
Bryen M Yunashko GNOME-A11y Outreach ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Prin

Fwd: FCC Releases Public Notice Seeking Comment on Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program

2010-11-03 Thread Peter Korn
FYI - in case any FOSS accessibility users want to share their thoughts with the FCC as to how to best distribute "specialized customer premises communications equipment" (which we might call AT hardware and software in IT parlance) to people who are deaf-blind in the US. This is part of a man

Re: Wiki page outlining latest magnifier framework

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Korn
must be user preferences. I guess that they will not be modified frequently, but I don´t have data to support this affirmation. Best regards, Carlos. -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 O

Re: Important: If you need a travel sponsorship from the Foundation for AEGIS, you must apply now!

2010-07-22 Thread Peter Korn
Gang, Separate from whether anyone sponsors your conference fee or not, to take advantage of the "GNOME Hackfest" price (equivalent to the student price), please put the word "GNOME" into the "Student ID Number" field on the registration page, at: http://aegis-conference.eu/pages/register.htm

Re: Important: If you need a travel sponsorship from the Foundation for AEGIS, you must apply now!

2010-07-22 Thread Peter Korn
API, Joseph, all, I have one missing piece: the cost of attending the conference. Since I would be going as a Speaker, I *think* I would have to register. Looking over the registration page (http://www.aegis-conference.eu/pages/register.html), my best guess is I qualify as a "... researchers,

Re: Most popular switch devices

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Korn
ch devices that simulate mouse buttons and keyboard keys. In the roadmap of Caribou [0] there is a mention to "an official switch device", which is that device? Thanks for your help. David. [0] http://live.gnome.org/Caribou -- Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650

Re: 2010/05/20 #a11y meeting summary

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Korn
Patrick, It is my hope that part of the GNOME Shell magnification work will result in something like this. Not as a GTK+ widget, but as an "accessibility layer" that things exactly like a scanning keyboard overlay could live in. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Principal Oracl

Re: 2010/05/20 #a11y meeting summary

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Korn
rking (e.g. http://live.gnome.org/Guadalinfo_accesible). Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Principal Oracle Brief summary of the meeting, feel free to create any individual thread about the topics. Sorry if I miss something, but as I said, this is a *brie

Easystroke - a (mouse) gesture recognition app

2010-03-16 Thread Peter Korn
Hi gang, I just heard about Easystroke, via the article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/enable-mouse-gestures-linux-easystroke/ Seems like it might be a useful app for anyone using a headmouse or eye tracker (among others). Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Principal Oracle

Re: Tentative CSUN hackfest schedule?

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Korn
e keynote address & welcome reception is the evening of the 23rd; we shouldn't do anything opposite that time slot. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Thanks Eitan. Given that I'm looking at 9 to 14 hours travel time depe

Re: HFOSS Visual Audio

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Korn
to be funded under the project -> at least to the level of a survey and recommendations. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. This is my proposal for visual audio events as a project for the upcoming HFOSS Summer Program. We'

Re: GNOME desktop media accessibility settings [was Re: Meeting Update]

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Korn
nd People, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, European Platform for Rehabilitation, ONCE Foundation, and Vastra Gotlands Lans Landsting. Several of the folks who have engineering tasks have begun hiring, and we may have news to report there in not too long... Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility

GNOME desktop media accessibility settings [was Re: Meeting Update]

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Korn
ering - which all media players might then respect and utilize? What do folks on this list think? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. We had a good productive meeting last night covering several topics: 1) Discussion of bugs and

Announcing AEGIS - a €12.6m investment in open source accessibility

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Korn
ing a fantastic 8th year to a close, and also serves to inaugurate the next 3.5 years! Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gno

Re: gnome, orca and enterprise linux

2008-04-08 Thread Peter Korn
le. And of course, for users who don't need the newer features (e.g .a user for whom a large print theme is all they need for their vision impairment), enterprise editions are largely there and can be used "directly, out of the box". Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility A

Re: Color blind question

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Korn
l be more universal, and accessible. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems > Hello, > > I wrote a little game[1] that is a brain teaser game. The game has four > puzzles where the user have to remember or identify colors. > > I got two mails from people telling

Re: Thoughts on magnification

2008-02-22 Thread Peter Korn
x27;d put a COMPOSITING edition of Metacity in third place. Also, I think from the point of view of user experimentation, we'll find Compiz a much more productive place to be - as we figure out what video effects are must valuable to which user needs & user scenarios. Regards, Peter

Re: GNOME A11y: where do we need to improve? (Want input by 25-Jan)

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Korn
orical and "current state of the art" reasons, I think it is best to solve full use by mouse only via add-on (though perhaps built-in to GNOME) AT which accomplishes that task, and utilizes the AT-SPI standard for driving apps where needed (e.g. with the AccessibleSelection, Accessible

Re: Closed-Captioning Support

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Bryen, The media formats need to support captioning, and then the players must be able to play it. RealMedia and QuickTime and WindowsMedia all support caption encoding (in one fashion or another), and HelixCode will render them. I don't know about other players. Regards, Peter

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Korn
data designed for a pedestrian. The public databases for this info (e.g. Google) are designed for automobiles. But once that piece is addressed, you should have everything needed to make the N800/N810 a talking GPS for accessibility use. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-19 Thread Peter Korn
making this less of a concern overall as well. > I'd think this sort of information would make sense to include or > reference prominently on the Wiki and in other GNOME marketing > blurbs. Absolutely! Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Brian, This is a great idea. My hand is happily up as well. Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors recognizes the importance > of Accessibility in the GNOME desktop. To help foster a more > clear and positive vision,

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Calum, Hans Petter, This sounds interesting. Any way to see and play with a prototype (and to get user feedback on it)? I also wonder whether and to what extent Compiz might play a role here (though perhaps we don't want to make a dependency on that just yet)... Regards, Peter Cc'ing

Re: accessible remote and 64 bit support

2007-10-19 Thread Peter Korn
access bridge techniques. I've run this stuff, and can verify it works; or at least, it worked last March with the versions of GNOME and Orca at the time. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi list, > I would like to know if there is any remote s

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Korn
running on more modern systems? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 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 > magni

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Korn
he GNOME summit at a time when both Carlos and I (and other interested parties) can call into it? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Korn
ference in what we can do with and without GL. That may be a bad assumption on my part. But I look at how GL hardware can do things like magnification of videos with little to no slowdown in video performance, and I imagine the other cool things GL can give us. And note what I said before: >> But you are closer to the code than I am. These are suggestions to the gnome-mag dude, to consider as he charts the future. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Korn
is is the basic that we need, than we > can start to think how these interaction can be done, since they must > be carried on by the WCM. > > The needs for the applications cited by Peter Korn can also be addressed here. > I would like to suggest more study of the Compiz option before

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Korn
ly magnify this layer as well. And perhaps you have the layer at full (magnified) resolution, so you wouldn't need to magnify it and thus it would be jaggy-free. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi, > > I would like to create a D-BUS based mag

Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-27 Thread Peter Korn
believe virtually all of the Orca script writers subscribe to the Orca users list that I've cc-ed. They will be your best resource for answering questions. Also, I'm curious - why do you feel you need total control of the blind user experience (vs. giving users flexibility in how they

Re: Disable Accessibility in a GTK component

2007-08-23 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Elcio, Have a look at the at-poke application, which intentionally disables accessibility on itself to avoid recursion by trying to explore itself. Why are you wanting to turn accessibility support on/off? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > >

Re: gnome-mag cursor focus position

2007-07-10 Thread Peter Korn
Orca or Gnopernicus, then you need to set the appropriate setting in your screen reader (e.g. "Mouse tracking mode" to "Centered"). Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hello, > > Is there any setting I can change to make gn

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-01 Thread Peter Korn
lcome any suggestions you have for what I and Sun can do to further help bring more developers from a wider spectrum of organizations into our community. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:01:50PM -0400, David Bolter wrote: >

Re: Desktop sounds in Gnome

2007-03-26 Thread Peter Korn
appening. Others turn it off. Perhaps some of the blind gnome users might chime in (excuse the pun) on this. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Need Help for Solaris Packages !!!

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Korn
the rest of the gnome accessibility framework) without a GNOME desktop. That is, unless you are also testing to make sure that those aspects of the software fail gracefully in the absence of GNOME. But in that case, you should then already have everything you need! Regards, Peter Korn

Re: Orca, OO writer and terminal

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Korn
NET application, etc.). Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi, > Under Debian, apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome > solved my problem. Thanks Jan. > Is the dependency on java access bridge gone under Windows as well? > Regard

Re: GDM accessibility sans AT-SPI

2006-12-07 Thread Peter Korn
we should at least explore options of addressing the concerns you start to list below before (or in parallel to) working on a self-voicing login. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi all, > > Another controversial post to g-a ... > > I'm

Re: what happened to gnopernicus?

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Korn
UNIX distributions. I know that Janina has been making Fedora RPMs of Orca available. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > I have been away from linux/gnome for almost a year now, I think the last > version of gnome I used was 2.6. > > When I instal

Re: Orca and Firefox

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Korn
s on UNIX/Linux. Meanwhile, you are welcome to try the Sun branch of Mozilla 1.7. You can find the last builds of that (from April 2005) at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/ Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hello Will, >

Re: Question about latest Ubuntu

2006-10-31 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Christian, Unless you want to upgrade an existing, older Ubuntu (or do some usual boot configuration or other such things), you don't need the alternate version. Also, I don't believe Joanie's directions will work with the alternate version. Regards, Peter Korn Accessib

Re: Question about latest Ubuntu

2006-10-31 Thread Peter Korn
the command-line (rather than via the GUI). It is a little more cumbersome than what non-speech users need - and the problems preventing it being more smooth are being worked on. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi all, > I havent tried it yet, but

Re: Ubuntu Accessability

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Korn
I'll have to leave you in the capable hands of folks like Peter Parente and George Kraft of IBM to describe the finer points of LSR. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi All > > I am having some guys from the local LUG come around to mine tomorrow to

Re: Ubuntu accessibility (mini) summit Nov. 5-10

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Korn
For purely selfish reasons, I'd like to suggest that day be Monday November 6th (since I'll be on a plane on the 7th). This isn't to prevent accessibility discussions from happening other days, but to encourage that many of them happen that day. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Ar

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Korn
g like DECtalk (cost of $50) addresses that nicely; then following that up showing Orca with Festival to demonstrate a completely free (as in beer & speech) solution gets important points across without first potentially disappointing them with today's free but sluggish performance.

Re: Hands Free Mouse Issues

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Korn
to work, > but it would be very nice to get the SmartNav or similar working since > it's so affordable. Perhaps I should get one and challenge the Ubuntu > community to write a driver ... Or perhaps a Google Summer of Code accessibility project? Peter Korn Accessibility Architect

Re: Hands Free Mouse Issues

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Korn
not as smooth. It would be great to have these inexpensive options supported on UNIX (anyone wanna writer a driver?), but that isn't today. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi Everyone, > > I hope you are enjoying the beginnings of autumn (if

Re: A couple of OpenOffice questions

2006-09-19 Thread Peter Korn
culty. Is you crash during the save operation? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi guys. > I was just curious about the saving bug in OOO. Can you actually save a > document, despite that Openoffice says that it has crashed and wants to > re

Re: Straw man agenda

2006-09-14 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Willie, I wonder if we might invite some members of the disability community who are in the Boston area to any of this session. Most specifically the 10-11 demo/overview, and the 11-12 talk on AT gaps for developers & end users. I expect they might also have contributions to make through

Re: Help please. - Want to switch distro

2006-08-23 Thread Peter Korn
lity community that may be able to help. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/ and their mailing list at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___

Re: [Kde-accessibility] KDE Accessibility - sorry, off topic.

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Korn
ng needed to make that nice for end-users to use), or yet still some other mechanism. There has been discussion in the AT hardware world of moving to a new USB HID interface for switches and perhaps also tracker devices, but that continues to be a fairly long way off I think. And we have a pretty

Re: KDE Accessibility - sorry, off topic.

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Korn
t's anyway too general a statement to have much meaning). But I do want to point out that the converse is likewise a bit general in the other direction... Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > For example, there is a German company that installs KDE-based com

Re: KDE Accessibility - sorry, off topic.

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Darragh, Are you familiar with the KDE Accessibility mailing list & community? See <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subscribe at https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility The folks there would be in the best position to address your question. Regards, Peter Korn Acc

Re: Gnome and Ubuntu 6.06?

2006-06-30 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Thomas, Please see http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuDapperDrake for instructions on getting Orca up and running on Ubuntu version 6.0.6 (known as the "Dapper Drake" release). Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi, list. > This might se

Audio recordings from the CSUN Orca & Open Document Format Accessibility sessions now available

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Korn
. Thanks to Mike Paciello for securing copies of these recordings. Note: you can also view the video directly, through the TV Worldwide website (assuming you have a Windows system to do so...). Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [g-a-devel] Slow keys dialog

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Korn
ld hope that filing bugs/RFEs is part of the purview of SoC projects. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Hi Chris, > > I think there are two issues here. Well, three: > > 1. Can an on-screen keyboard implement "sticky" modifiers wi

Re: [g-a-devel] Slow keys dialog

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Korn
so. So, my suggestion is that if you simply cannot possible use the system-settings for sticky keys as part of your own UI, that you make things sticky your own way; however that if the system-wide settings are on that you use and respect those (complete with the dialog box that you seem to disl

Re: getting orca included in gnome 2.16

2006-06-10 Thread Peter Korn
t in any given category the 'default' product that a formal part of the GNOME desktop, I am personally delighted that they have chosen to create such a category for screen reader, screen magnifier, on-screen keyboard, and text-input alternative (Dasher). Regards, Peter Korn Acce

Re: gnopernicus-magnifier. Full screen magnifier with dummy driver

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Korn
with those yet. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hello, I'm trying to use the gnopernicus-magnifier as a full screen magnifier. I followed the instructions at: http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/apas03.html I did it with the dummy driver, but thi

Re: Can GOK work with autocompletion?

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Korn
rface implementation that programmers render. Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi guys. Technically I'm on holiday today. I think we could choose an existing event (or propose a new one) for notification regarding this... and GOK could create a key rep

Re: Can GOK work with autocompletion?

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Korn
cific word completion, and how do we communicate that between the application and GOK via AT-SPI. Evan, David - any thoughts? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi all, I'm now working on a mozilla a11y bug, about autocompletion. The URL of the bu

Re: Using Braille Lite 40 with V-TERM

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Dave, What screen reader are you using, on what operating system? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi Listers. I am using a Braille Lite 40. I just received V-TERM in the mail today. The IT person at my work wants to set up a serial virtual modem

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Korn
ig hole right now in UNIX. Please see things like Read&Write Gold from TextHelp, which provide assistance for folks with dyslexia, and with a variety of other print disorders. See http://www.texthelp.com/rwg.asp?q1=products&q2=rwg Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Mic

Re: keystrokes for gnome menus

2006-05-01 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Michael, Please see the GNOME Accessibility Guide at http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.14/ and specifically http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.14/keynav-0.html for keyboard navigation of the desktop. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi

Re: Fwd: [Bug 332660] GTK file picker as used in Firefox is not accessibile for GOK (Mozilla strips atk-bridge from GTK_MODULES)

2006-04-17 Thread Peter Korn
when gail/atk-bridge are loaded? Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Begin forwarded message: *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Date: *April 13, 2006 4:46:48 PM CST *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Subject: **[Bug

Re: Design of On-screen Keyboard

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Korn
.Thanks for all !!! Please see http://www.gok.ca for an excellent example of an on-screen keyboard for Linux. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 如何在LINUX下实现一个屏幕键盘,原理是什么?举个简单的例子就好,比如我 > 点击屏幕上的一个按钮,就会向gedit或其他编辑器中输入一个&

Re: Question about openoffice and gnopernicus.

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Korn
accessibility. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: [Fwd: screen reader]

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Korn
Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi Perry. I'm forwarding your email to gnome-accessibility-list. Somebody there should be able to help you. My name is plastered all over various bits of documentation, but that doesn't mean I know everything. :)

See Sun at CSUN: sessions on Orca, ODF accessibility, Java & GNOME Accessibility

2006-03-09 Thread Peter Korn
desktop. On behalf of Sun Microsystems, Peter Korn Sun Microsystems Accessibility team [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sun.com/access === CSUN Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities Wednesday

Re: Tree and table accessibility broken in Gnome 2.14?

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Al, I just tried this in gedit, and see the same result - no feedback. It's not just your distro... Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. hello, I'm just curious as to whether anyone else has encountered issues when attempting to navigate Trees

Re: Java-access-bridge

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Korn
Sun JVM went... It'd probably be best to put that in your path ahead of the default installed Java. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gno

Re: gnopernicus and free tts

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Korn
't installed properly. Hmmm... Another question for you: what relese of what OS are you using? Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team Cody Hurst wrote: hi pete, I hope I have the gnome speech installed, or otherwise it will be hunting for a thousand other dependencies. do versions n

Re: gnopernicus and free tts

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Korn
for it. Best to install FreeTTS first, then build gnome-speech (and tell it where to find FreeTTS on your system). Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibilityt eam ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.g

Re: Request for help setting up Gnopernicus

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Korn
03.html We are actively working on this "kludginess", and a shift to some new X server extenions (most especially COMPOSITE) will help greatly in this area. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. P.S. to Henrik Nilsen Omma - you are very welcome to post

Re: No speech, and magnifier question

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Terrence, 'testspeech' is really 'test-speech', and as Kenny says, you'll probably want to build it and the rest of gnome-speech from source to get the latest. A number of significant bug fixes have gone in recently... Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility tea

Re: No speech, and magnifier question

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Korn
hen the problem is upstream of your screen reader. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team Terrence van Ettinger wrote: Hi, Bill, I did respond in another message with my distro information, but it doesn't seem to have reached the list. I'm running Debian Sarge on an eMachi

Re: problem with festival

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Korn
Live CD. When it is ready I'll send out an announcement on this alias. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: Is there a problem with Festival? I ask because I tried to run the accessable version of the live CD for Ubuntu and although my mother who was down

Re: gnopernicus 0.10.4 + Firefox 1.0.7 not talking

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Korn
_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&order=bugs.bug_id&query_based_on= For more information, ple

Deskzilla - how is accessibility?

2005-10-05 Thread Peter Korn
html). You can download an eval from the http://deskzilla.com/download.html page. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Solaris 10, questen for Peter Korn

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Hank, hank smith wrote: what is the url for this? The URL for the download of Solaris 10, or for the License agreement itself? The download URL is: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp The license URL is: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17 Regards, Peter Korn

Re: Solaris 10, questen for Peter Korn

2005-10-02 Thread Peter Korn
essibility) - the speech issue I mentione above is one such fix. I'll send out an announcement when it is available. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http:/

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Korn
display would be useful? Though I've heard it is going out of style, many Braille displays dedicated several cells a the far right edge for status indication. We already have a GNOME Keyboard Accessibility status applet GUI. Would a Braille equivalent of that be interesting? Regards,

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-29 Thread Peter Korn
e physical disabilities - is arguably already better served with non-Windows offerings: StarOffice/OpenOffice.org + the GNOME On-Screen Keyboard provides significantly greater efficiency and productivity for a vast number of office tasks as compared to anything on Microsoft Windows. Regards, Peter

Re: Baum.ro: still server probems?

2005-09-28 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Petra, My understanding from a conversation earlier this week is that BAUM is have problems with their ISP at the moment. The URL is correct. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accesibility team Petra Ritter wrote: Hello, Is http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html still down? I am not sure whether

Re: gnopernicus speech

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Korn
(e-mail server problems), but I spoke with them earlier today, and they are looking into a related problem with the GNOME 2.12 Live CD which is based on Ubuntu. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnom

Re: Mozilla

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Korn
a working with SuSE and where can I find these dependancies? I'll leave that question to Willie Walker, the Orca maintainer. You may not get a rapid reply, however, as he is on vacation this week. Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team _

Re: Gnome 2.12 Live CD

2005-09-18 Thread Peter Korn
hasn't happened yet. I've already PINGed the folks once about this. I promised to post a note here when I know that this is fixed! Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility

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