TransferSummit open innovation in accessibility talks

2011-08-11 Thread Steve Lee
here http://transfersummit.com/programme I hope to see you there Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Review small tasks suitable for student competition

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Lee
On 11 January 2011 13:58, Steve Lee wrote: > Apart from the chance to get student experience with real open source > communities I see this as an important opportunity to raise awareness > about GNOME a11y. This is important as the general community really > don't know about

Re: Review small tasks suitable for student competition

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Lee
really don't know about it and there's no such thing as 'build it and they will come'. Being at CSUN is important and being there with a booth, talks and proj pos students will all add up to good exposure.. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: 2010/01/06 07:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

2011-01-06 Thread Steve Lee
On 5 January 2011 19:14, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hey all and Happy New Year! Thanks Joanie - and to you. > Tomorrow is our next 07:00 UTC a11y team meeting in #a11y-meeting. The > agenda, along with links to the minutes of previous meetings can be > found at: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility

Review small tasks suitable for student competition

2010-12-30 Thread Steve Lee
SmallTasks -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Ideas wanted for student weekend a11y code-a-thon

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Lee
BTW the dates for the SS12 events are CSUN -- Feb 5-6 USC -- Feb 19-20 UCLA -- Feb 26-27 Steve On 20 December 2010 17:09, Steve Lee wrote: > HI > > Project:Possibility are starting to organise next year's SS12 CS > student competitions and are looking for ideas again. This ye

Ideas wanted for student weekend a11y code-a-thon

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Lee
Students won't have much time to get up to speed with existing code bases. Thanks -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-18 Thread Steve Lee
witch (joystick) input. I'm fully aware that even with this care in architecture that supporting several platforms will be plenty of work. 1: maavis.fullmeasure.co.uk -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk _

Re: AEGIS Accessibility Personas

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks Shaun For information the W3C WAI have also created a set of personas, which complement those from Aegis, according to Shadi: http://www.w3.org/WAI/redesign/personas -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk On 16 December 2010 15:38, Shaun

Re: [g-a-devel] Caribou: suggestion of some features

2010-12-09 Thread Steve Lee
Jiro In case you haven't seen them, there are some requirements questions being asked on the GNOME accessibility wiki to guide development. perhaps you would like to respond there? http://live.gnome.org/Caribou/RequirementsQuestions#preview Steve Lee On 1 December 2010 13:06, Jiro Mats

Re: 2011 Conferences

2010-12-09 Thread Steve Lee
On 8 December 2010 22:20, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > With 2011 fast approaching us, I'd like to try to compile a list of > conferences that GNOME A11y should have presence at.  [snip] > Can anyone else offer up their suggestions for places we should keep on > the radar? + AAATE conference http://w

Re: Who is speaking at CSUN this year?

2010-11-30 Thread Steve Lee
On 30 November 2010 19:59, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > Eitan and myself have both been accepted to speak at the CSUN > Accessibility Technology conference this year in San Diego in March. Congrats. > We > are wondering if anyone else here has had their papers accepted. I'm not planning to go due

Re: Macro application for Gnome

2010-11-11 Thread Steve Lee
hould also look at the many accessibility features and pugins it has on Ken Saunder's excellent access firefox site [2] 1:http://www.autohotkey.com/ 2:http://accessfirefox.org -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk On 11 November 2010 16:49,

Re: Opportunity to Contribute to GNOME Accessibility: Orca Performance Improvements

2010-11-02 Thread Steve Lee
On 1 November 2010 20:10, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > I'm stripping off the other lists. Thanks >> What do you see as the criteria for being on this page? We might be >> able to move some items from >> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved/SmallTasks >> >> or expand on those there, especi

Re: Opportunity to Contribute to GNOME Accessibility: Orca Performance Improvements

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Lee
On 1 November 2010 16:46, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > I have created a new "Opportunities" page for GNOME A11y. [3] It's > admittedly a bit on the sparse side at the moment, but with luck (and > work and community involvement) that will change. :-) What do you see as the criteria for being on this p

Re: Travel Tips for Going to Spain

2010-09-24 Thread Steve Lee
On 24 September 2010 17:58, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > A couple of travel tips that some of you should be aware of if traveling > aborad to Spain for the GNOME-A11y hackfest. Nice one Bryen > Getting Cash: > Obviously, first bit of cash you need is your cab fare from the airport. > Most people t

Re: Information on Caribou

2010-09-18 Thread Steve Lee
] (listed on Caribou page) and there are people on the OATSoft mailing list [2] who are clued up on user needs. 1: http://www.ace-centre.org.uk/assets/Product%20Downloads/SwitchScanningMaster_8_472.pdf 2: http://www.oatsoft.org/Info/Project/OatsSig Steve Lee On 16 September 2010 22:46, Mario wrote

AEGIS Hackfest

2010-09-08 Thread Steve Lee
After much consideration I have decide not to attend the AEGIS/a11y hackfest. I hope the event goes really well and look forward to hearing all about it. I have update the wiki and notified the travel group. -- Steve Lee Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk

Re: 2010/07/08 6:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Lee
Piñeiro Apologies for not attending, especially after your thoughtful reminders - something came up. Steve On 7 July 2010 16:43, Piñeiro wrote: > > Gently reminder. > > Tomorrow 2010/07/08 at 6:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting. > > Previous minutes [1] > > Tentative agenda [2] (I have just added a ne

Re: 2010/07/01 15:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks Piñeiro I'm unlikely to make the meeting as tied up in an all day one. Steve On 30 June 2010 19:26, Piñeiro wrote: > > Gently reminder. > > Tomorrow 2010/07/01 at 15:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting. > > Previous minutes [1] > > Tentative agenda [2], feel free to edit it until tomorrow with >

Re: RFP - Guadalinex a11y edition

2010-06-10 Thread Steve Lee
On 10 June 2010 13:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> We'd love if all the development that will stem from this a11y edition could >> be >> encapsulated somehow so that it could be re-used to derive a11y editions from >> other GNU/Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, ...). > > In any case, thanks for

Re: Outreach meeting dates

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Lee
Can we set a date for the next Outreach meeting? API kindly bumped this in the a11y call. Bryen when are you next available? Interesting news is that a team including University of Southampton, U o Sheffield, OSS Watch and Full Measure (yours truely) have received JISC funding for a 1 year project

The H Open article on the TransferSummit and BarcampOxford

2010-06-05 Thread Steve Lee
There's as good article in The H on the TransferSummit and BarcampOxford later this month where Stormy Peters is presenting. http://h-online.com/-1014579 Those in the UK/Europe may be interested to know that places are still available for both events. -- Steve Lee http://transfersummi

Re: a11y meeting minutes on live.gnome.org

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Lee
thanks Piñeiro, that is useful. Steve On 28 May 2010 12:36, Piñeiro wrote: > > Instead of send a summary mail to the list, some people suggested that > it could be a good idea to create a Minutes page on live.gnome.org, as > the foundation is doing [1]. > > I have just created this page, and add

Re: Outreach meeting dates

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Lee
Did we set a date/time for the next meeting? Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Outreach meeting dates

2010-05-18 Thread Steve Lee
> So now the only time left is > > Thursday, 13:00 UTC Where are we meeting? GNOME #a11y ? Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Outreach meeting dates

2010-05-13 Thread Steve Lee
On 13 May 2010 10:08, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > >> > 2) 20th May, 2010 (Thursday) - 13:00 UTC  [2] >> >> I have this as the time of the next normal GNOME a11y meeting so won't work. > > I thought those meetings were at 15:00 UTC. They're at 11 AM for me > (ET). Yes you are correct - I had that one

Re: Outreach meeting dates

2010-05-13 Thread Steve Lee
On 13 May 2010 09:36, Shayon Mukherjee wrote: > As discussed In todays A11y meeting  , there is a need of a proper > outreach plan so as to manage the tech talks and outreach talks > effectively. Now  we (Bryen,Steve and Myself) came to a decision that it > would be good to arrange a meeting and g

Re: moving on to other projects

2010-05-01 Thread Steve Lee
Ben thank you for starting Caribou and all your energy in developing it. It already provides a much needed direction forward from the current 'state of stuck' that GOK is in. I do understand your feelings about the lack of users, it is very hard to be motivated without them. There is something of

Re: New #a11y Meeting times proposed!

2010-04-12 Thread Steve Lee
Sorry for my late response 06:00 or 07:00 are both fine with me I can't usually make 15:00 as doing school run. Given my level of involvement at present I guess every other meeting will be fine so I wont vote against 15:00 Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-

Re: blog post about the hackfest

2010-04-05 Thread Steve Lee
A 2nd post - covering Project:possibility as well as GNOME http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/04/05/more-from-csun10/ Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-acces

Podcast article on GNOME & Proj:Pos at CSUN

2010-04-05 Thread Steve Lee
One of the reasons I was not at the GNOME booth as much as I wanted to be was I that had promised to do an audio article for the new 'Access Collective podcast set up by David Banes of Ability Net. You can hear it at 06:40 into the podcast and David mentions GNOME and Will again in the news section

Re: Interview with Joanie at CSUN

2010-04-01 Thread Steve Lee
On 1 April 2010 10:51, Steve Lee wrote: > http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/31/interview-with-joanie-diggs-at-the-csun-conference/ And now Willie's interview is up. http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/04/01/the-growing-popularity-of-open-source-assistive-technology-interview-w

Re: blog post about the hackfest

2010-04-01 Thread Steve Lee
On 1 April 2010 17:02, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Thanks Ben, Willie, Flavio, Joanie and Bryen for blogging. Did I forget > someone? me me me ;-) http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/25/report-from-the-csun-conference-in-san-diego/ http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/31/interview-with-joan

Interview with Joanie at CSUN

2010-04-01 Thread Steve Lee
http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/31/interview-with-joanie-diggs-at-the-csun-conference/ Thanks Joanie -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome

Re: blog post about the hackfest

2010-04-01 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks Ben - I tweeted it on GNOME_a11y Steve On 31 March 2010 23:47, Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi, > > I just wrote a quick blog post about the a11y hackfest. Since I'm not on > planet gnome, here's the link: > > http://www.bagu.org/blog/2010/03/31/gnome-a11y-hackfest-at-csun/ > > I tried not to rep

GNOME mentoring GSoc 2010

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Lee
We could add some a11y ideas http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: CSUN program

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Lee
On 17 March 2010 16:09, Ben Konrath wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Steve Lee wrote: >> PS is someone taking power strips? > > I can bring one. Cool - there are never enough. I only have UK ones :-( Steve ___ gnome-acc

CSUN program

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Lee
king power strips? -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.

2010-03-14 Thread Steve Lee
On 10 March 2010 15:48, Stormy Peters wrote: > Thanks for the links! I was going to twitter them and couldn't fit it in 140 > characters so I wrote a blog post: > > http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/03/10/gnome-projectpossibility/ Thanks Stormy. I added an update from the finals. Plus I fin

Re: Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Lee
if it is not clear, the 'existing on-screen keyboard' mentioned is GNOME Caribou. A huge thanks to Ben for helping the students, through a very steep learning curve and on to success. Steve On 10 March 2010 15:01, Steve Lee wrote: > http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/5/br

Article and photos from the Project:Possibility USC UCLA face off.

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Lee
# The winning teams from each campus will be at CSUN Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Hackfest hackday hackpit schedule

2010-03-06 Thread Steve Lee
That's good Eitan. Perhaps a bit light on 'hacking' for a hackfest :-) But tist is all important stuff to cover. Especially at this point in time. I'd only like to add a quick discussion of how to best approach the Project:Possibility students working on GNOME Caribou, assuming some make it to CSU

Re: a brief Caribou update

2010-03-05 Thread Steve Lee
On 4 March 2010 19:37, Ben Konrath wrote: > I am no longer working at the University of Toronto. > There is a chance that the ATRC will find an alternate source of > funding for my position but I don't know when that will come through > so I've begun searching for a new employment opportunity. oh

Project:Possibility students working on GNOME a11y this weekend

2010-02-27 Thread Steve Lee
and won't have much time to chat. -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-24 Thread Steve Lee
On 25 February 2010 01:21, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > No promises, but note-to-self. We should tape our presentations at CSUN. Related to that I'd like to do a couple of audio interviews for OSS Watch and they would be on a liberal CC licence. Certainly I'll be chasing Willie, Eitan and Joanie and a

Re: help with data on webkit accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks for the clear explanation. On 23 February 2010 20:49, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > So the question now is where do we go from here? Do I spend my time > hacking something together in Orca which only kinda sorta works to > address the fact that Debian and Ubuntu have decided to do their own > t

Re: help with data on webkit accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
On 23 February 2010 21:11, Shaun McCance wrote: > How important is it that Debian or Ubuntu are accessible? > Can our team really afford to chase every accessibility > issue that gets introduced by distros? Can't we advise > people to use a distro that has better accessibility out > of the box?

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
On 23 February 2010 17:51, Tom Masterson wrote: > The building blocks of all our code as simple as possible to use and add > accessibility so it isn't a chore for developers.  Let's face it the > majority of designers don't even consider accessibility even when they have > people who need it on th

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
On 23 February 2010 17:21, Willie Walker wrote: > Education is key.  Part of why I saw so much value in going to the GNOME > Usability Hackfest was to spread the word and get accessibility > considerations as close to the design as possible.  It also needs to be > done in a positive way to make th

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
Sean It's fantastic to hear from developers who are committed to the accessibility of their projects and consider it as part of their roadmap. Awesome. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
answer is either but it has to start with making the knowledge available or it just works (baked in). Automated testing may help. -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk ___ gnome-accessibility

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
On 23 February 2010 04:48, Jason White wrote: > More automated testing to find regressions would also be valuable. This, > naturally, would be easiest in projects that already have test suites - they > just have to write test cases to cover the accessibility API. Test suits like LDTP and Dogtail

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Lee
s' that run on it. One thing I recently realised we''ll need is more flexible/extensible events. -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing

CSUN tweetup

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Lee
There is a tweatup on Weds 24th (I added io the wiki), It will be a chance to socialise and do lightening talks (and get free food). http://csuntweetup.com/ I know at least Joanie is on Twitter as she introduced us to it at CSUN a couple of years back. -- Steve Lee

Re: Accessibility Hackfest - Further Planning

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Lee
rence into the GNOME > community, this includes: >  * Planet GNOME posts >  * Tweets/Identi.ca (I am willing to post daily digests of tagged > tweets to my blog and to the planet). >  * Articles for a future GNOME Journal accessibility issue (didn't > actually ask the GJ f

Quick start page

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Lee
e add any useful details for their projects? Willie - you said you might get instructions for setting up including dependencies. -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/lis

Re: GNOME Accessibility #a11y meeting at 21:00UTC

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Lee
I want to talk about Project:Possibility at the hackfest ;-) Steve On 12 February 2010 16:54, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > We will also be discussing the a11y hackfest! > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Willie Walker > wrote: >> Hi All: >> >> Steve Lee from Proje

Re: Accessibility Hackfest - Further Planning

2010-02-11 Thread Steve Lee
On 11 February 2010 00:18, Brian Cameron wrote: > I also agree that it is a great idea to get any organizations that > we meet at CSUN who are using GNOME a11y or interested in contact > with Stormy and the board.  Even if they are not organizations that > are appropriate for joining the AdBoard,

Re: Tentative CSUN hackfest schedule?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Lee
On 2 February 2010 15:29, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Sorry I have not been responding to e-mail, i am traveling a bit now. In > Cambridge UK. Welcome to the UK. Even if it is with Oxford's traditional enemy :-) The Project:Possibility students who win the SS12 event are now officially part of the

Re: Tentative CSUN hackfest schedule?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Lee
On 1 February 2010 19:29, Peter Korn wrote: > While conference events start on March 21st with evening pre-conference > registration, the exhibit floor is open Wednesday the 24th through Saturday Thanks Peter - I'd missed the floor didn't open till later. >  I suggest we either have hackfest act

Re: Tentative CSUN hackfest schedule?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Lee
On 1 February 2010 16:28, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Thanks Eitan. > > Given that I'm looking at 9 to 14 hours travel time depending on > layovers and the like, Wow that is almost as long as my journey from UK. LA was much easier. I'm now planning to arrive to arrive on 22nd and leaving the last da

Introduction to open accessibility

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Lee
I just thought I'd mention that OSS Watch have now published an introductory article on open accessibility. Needless to say GNOME get a mention ;-) http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/openaccessibility.xml -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
I spoke to Ross Gardler, OSS Watch service manager, about the Wookie sessions and they will run throughout the event if there is interest (it's like an unconference) . So if GNOME people fancy a certain day/time they should say so. Steve ___ gnome-access

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
2010/1/22 Steve Lee : >>> http://getwookie.org/Welcome.html >> >> It is good to highlight these sorts of things, so that those people >> who are attending and have a particular interest in this area can >> consider joining these events.  Which day will thes

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-22 Thread Steve Lee
events.  Which day will these Wookie related > events happen? Mahendra are these time tabled yet? -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Lee
University is a W3C Widget server (and is now in the Apache incubator). OSS Watch are running a Wookie training day and then a Wookie + Sling/OSGI event at Dev8D. If there is interest in this then perhaps the usability folk could help us understand what we need to do when building widgets? http:

CSUN registration

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Lee
nding the money if not needed. -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: #a11y meeting Friday 20:00UTC

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Lee
2010/1/7 Willie Walker : > Let's have a quick meeting on the #a11y channel in irc.gnome.org tomorrow to Is that 21:00 UTC? I'll try to stay awake and actually attend this time. Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gno

Re: Finding GNOME a11y tasks for Project:Possibility students to work on

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Lee
2010/1/7 Steve Lee : > We'd like to find a number of GNOME a11y tasks that are suitable for > students to pick from a pool of suggested SS12 activities and get > excited about working on. > > So I'm wondering if folks on this list can suggest ways to develop > ideas an

Finding GNOME a11y tasks for Project:Possibility students to work on

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Lee
tinuation? Most of P:P are based around LA so there may even be a chance for a f2f. 1: http://www.projectpossibility.org 2: http://ss12.info -- Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: [Usability] Announce - GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest (London, Feb 22-26, 2010)

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Lee
p's opengazer project; http://bit.ly/6iZqbr and http://bit.ly/GL9tJ (thanks to @pepperbox for the idea). So who has more ideas? -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk 2009/12/16 Brian Cameron : > > I would like to anno

Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lee
2009/12/11 David Colven : > I feel what we need - and is part of the ACE contribution to AEGIS - is a > central switch handler (control panel type thing) which reads switches and > that any scanning program can use.  The control panel would deal with all the > methods and filtering and pass scan

Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lee
2009/12/11 David Colven : > Sorry if I’m being dum – I am down with flu at the moment – but I don’t see > why a joystick switch inout should not do exactly what the daisy reader > wants.  Window will not react to input from a USB fire button unless it’s > told to, will ot? Yes that is exactly corr

Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Lee
2009/12/11 Mats Lundälv > > I strongly support you on these points Steve: > Go for USB game as the primary source of switch input - as it's a standard, > but clearly separated from the basic keyboard and mouse input - and good > interface products - like the JoyCable - are there on the market. Su

Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Lee
g/svn/jambu/trunk/src/lib/jambu/Switch.py I'm not clear how this compares with the fully integrated X events approaches that Willie mentions. My view is the sooner we have a viable switch solution on GNOME the better in order to be able to attract the users. Steve Lee _

Re: A11y Holiday Party

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Lee
Bryan, after you sold it so well it's a real shame to say I can't make it (again). We're running an OSS Watch workshop on Building an Engaged Community and I'm leading an activity at that time (it's not my 3rd strike yet, honest). So wishing everyone a merry Christmas and an a11y new year. PS I me

Re: Monday Meeting - 16 Nov 2009

2009-11-14 Thread Steve Lee
2009/11/13 Bryen M Yunashko : > So I goofed and made it an hour later. You too busy playing with the latest open SUSE? > How's about a quick debate amongst us all and see what everyone prefers? > > Vote #1: 16:00 UTC +0 > Vote #3: Steve provides refreshments at either time meeting. nice cup

Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Lee
2009/11/5 Willie Walker : > I think there's a few sides to this. And another is to expose CS students to the concepts so they take them forwards with them into industry experience. Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list

New GNOME / KDE online course

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Lee
Does anyone have the bandwidth to ensure a11y is well represented in this great resource http://is.gd/4G0aU -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list

Re: Mon-Oct 19 Meeting for #a11y

2009-10-19 Thread Steve Lee
2009/10/15 Eitan Isaacson : > I wold like to use the meeting to gauge preliminary interest for the a11y > hackfest, and get some feedback on how we could make it successful. Eitan, I had another OSS Watch meeting but read through the IRC notes. So Project:Possibility will be at CSUN, though the e

Re: CSUN Hackfest and Exhibition: Call for Participation

2009-10-15 Thread Steve Lee
Eitan That is excellent news and I now have even more reason to pop over for CSUN (apart from Stevie Wonder spotting and looking at your great photos of service animals). Will you be next to Mozilla's booth? I'm a passing this on to the Project:Possibility board as they are local and there should

Re: Vbf:Ang: [GOK] plan for GNOME 3.0 - please comment

2009-10-12 Thread Steve Lee
You make some excellent points Mats and I agree about speed being an important priority. It's amazing how fast some users can scan. 2009/10/12 Mats Lundälv : > - the selection button grid I envisage similar to a table component (in an > office application) – possibly built on some existing one – w

Re: Close buttons in dialogs

2009-07-27 Thread Steve Lee
l? Ho hum. Such rules are hard to enforce when they are up to individual developers' diligence. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Close buttons in dialogs

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Lee
2009/7/23 Eitan Isaacson : > Close buttons are good for > screen reader users because it puts the dialog dismissal as part of the > focus order (and work order), and thus discoverable. > Currently a keyboard user could get by without knowing about alt+f4 at all, > I could see it being frustrating

Re: Accessibility Team Updates for Q2 (March-June) of 2009.

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Lee
Hey That's amazing, though I don't see anything there for Orca. BTW I read the GNOME report and was delighted by the high profile of the accessibility work and that Stormy's very first sentence mentioned it. Awesome. Steve Lee 2009/7/22 Willie Walker : > Hi All: > > St

Re: HFOSS Projects: VizAudio, MouseTrap, Dots

2009-06-01 Thread Steve Lee
Hi Ted and welcome, it's fantastic that you HFOSS folks are going to be involved in pushing the open a11y boundaries. P.S if anyone is going to be at the AEGIS workshop on Friday - see you there. -- Steve Lee http://fullmeasure.co.uk Open Accessibility 2009/5/29 Willie Walker : > Wel

Re: screen reader

2009-04-01 Thread Steve Lee
g them is as GNOME a11y is off. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: HFOSS: VizAudio & DOTS

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Lee
" about this. It's great we have 2 projects now and a good one for next steps. -- Steve Lee OSS Watch Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-li

Re: HFOSS: VizAudio & DOTS

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Lee
can > immediately take advantage of and participate in. +1 Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Project:Possibility SS12 at UCLA

2009-02-20 Thread Steve Lee
http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2009/feb/03/closing-tech-gaps-open-source-fixes/ (cross posted) -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility

Re: Ideas for upcoming Bolzano GTK+ hackfest

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Lee
2009/2/10 Behdad Esfahbod : > Go ahead and prepare then! Great work everyone. Keeping a11y in mind at all stages will help make GTK+ even better for everyone. @Flavio - superpowers AND a VIP - yay. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing l

Re: AT-SPI: Associating X11 Window with Accessible object?

2009-01-29 Thread Steve Lee
t getAccessibleAtPoint and related functions may help Take a look at Accerciser's _inspectUnderMouse and _getChildAccAtCoords http://www.koders.com/python/fid8F2A47CCB9FACC23867491E2BC6729B8EFCDCB2F.aspx?s=_inspectUnderMouse#L25 There was a thread about these issues recently on the mozilla accessi

Re: Instantiating Firefox A11y on GNOME

2009-01-16 Thread Steve Lee
2009/1/16 David Bolter : I personally am using the workaround Steve gave us here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460926#c4 on my install of > Intrepid (Ubuntu). Actually that was from Ginn. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessi

Re: Time-Shift Meeting Proposal

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Lee
a. Every other week would be gr8, but every month ok too Times well 18:00 to 21:00 (end) would be best for me as I need my beauty sleep. Steve Lee ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman

Re: Summer Interns for GNOME Accessibility

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lee
---------- >> >> ___ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > ___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: [Fwd: UK Charity to distribute eee PCs with Open a11y installed]

2008-11-07 Thread Steve Lee
is Ubuntu+Orca. > > Will > > http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/498549.html > > -- > Steve Lee > Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility > fullmeasure.co.uk > ___ > dev-accessibility mailing list > [EMA

Re: Updating the brainstorming list

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Lee
d feel free to > edit it. > > Thanks! > > Will > > ___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- Steve Le

Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

2008-11-01 Thread Steve Lee
TK/FFx etc still call and look for events? Would the over head of the function calls that test and return with no a11y be too much to bear? It would be localosed in one place and all appswould behave the same. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software a

Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

2008-10-23 Thread Steve Lee
t rid of the need to logout/in after turning it on/off and add a protocol for AT's to request it and for it to to be enabled turn when an AT fires up. Does the D-BUS port give us this capability? We can perhaps defines some system messages for a11y? -- Steve Lee Open Source Assist

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