ANNOUNCE: at-spi 1.31.1

2010-05-04 Thread Li Yuan
=== * What is at-spi? === at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating environments. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ t

Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi, I'm Sanne te Meerman, from Holland, and I'm part of the dutch team organising GUADEC. Some of you may know me, as I've been active on the marketing list. I'm very interested in the A11y project, as it's a great project that shows the power of GNOME and the possibilities of Free/Open Sour

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Lorenzo Gil Sanchez
El mar, 04-05-2010 a las 10:05 +0200, Sanne te Meerman escribió: > Hi, > > I'm Sanne te Meerman, from Holland, and I'm part of the dutch team > organising GUADEC. Some of you may know me, as I've been active on the > marketing list. > > I'm very interested in the A11y project, as it's a great p

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread José Félix Ontañón
2010/5/4 Lorenzo Gil Sanchez > El mar, 04-05-2010 a las 10:05 +0200, Sanne te Meerman escribió: > > Hi, > > > > I'm Sanne te Meerman, from Holland, and I'm part of the dutch team > > organising GUADEC. Some of you may know me, as I've been active on the > > marketing list. > > > > I'm very intere

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi Lorenzo, I think I do mean that indeed :-). I've heard great things, 'through the grapevine', and have tried to get details, but apparantly not on the right mailinglist. Are you coming to GUADEC, or is anybody else from these projects coming to GUADEC? These are extremely interesting proje

Re: Advice wrt custom pygtk widget and atk

2010-05-04 Thread Li Yuan
Hi Matthew, I am not familiar with Python. But for C, if you have a costom cell renderer, you will need to implement its accessibility peer. Its base class will be GailRendererCellClass, GailTextCell would be a good example. And you need to register your accessibility class so that GAIL knows

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi José, That's great to hear. You mean if I have more info about the Pre-conference in the Hague? Let me point you first to the GUADEC site, where there's a short text about it: http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/overview#open-desktop-day Do you have a website of these p

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 ORCA and the

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi Mario, I'm delighted to hear about these projects, and will be looking forward to hear from you about your participation. Let's keep in touch when there's news. I will update you personally and with this mailing list when there is more info about the pre-conference. Best Regards, Sanne t

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread 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 just a braille table in brltty and liblouis? Samuel ___ gnome-access

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Mario
Yes, it's a separate tool but it depends on liblouis to do all the transcription. In addition, it will add an accessible front-end, easy addition of new tables and the ability to be called by OpenOffice.org to do on-the-fly transcriptions. It's intended that it will follow all the GNOME guidelines

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario, le Tue 04 May 2010 13:56:14 +0200, a écrit : > Yes, it's a separate tool but it depends on liblouis to do all the > transcription. How different is it from the "dots" application? > easy addition of new tables New liblouis tables? > and the ability to be called by OpenOffice.org to do on

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi, That's an interesting discussion. Og b. Maciel will very likely also be at the pre-conference, talking about code-participation from outsiders. The development of this a11y tool seems like a good example of the challenges and possibilities for this. best, Sanne te Meerman Samuel Thibau

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Matteo Vescovi
4. Improvements to Caribou which are not only switch access but also addition of text prediction techniques for Spanish. It has been contracted to WARP. Hi, I would like to humbly suggest the use of presage as a predictive text engine to add text prediction functionality to caribou. Presa

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi all, I hope we can keep this thread for the purpose of the pre-conference. I know it's ever tempting to start a technical discussion about GNOME features etc. but I'd like to keep this thread for the purpose of the Pre-conference ok? Thank you, Sanne Matteo Vescovi schreef: 4. Improvem

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread José Félix Ontañón
El 4 de mayo de 2010 12:03, Sanne te Meerman escribió: > Hi José, > > > That's great to hear. You mean if I have more info about the Pre-conference > in the Hague? Let me point you first to the GUADEC site, where there's a > short text about it: > > > http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/sc

Re: Help Wanted for GUADEC

2010-05-04 Thread Sanne te Meerman
Hi, Will you be able to make it on the 26th of july (monday)? We can attract government institutions in Holland to the pre-conference, who would be very interested to hear about these projects. best, Sanne José Félix Ontañón schreef: El 4 de mayo de 2010 12:03, Sanne te Meerman mailto:s

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 Fernando Herrera
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Sanne te Meerman wrote: > Could you provide me with connections, and would you be willing to speak > during the pre-conference? I'm making a serious effort together with > www.noiv.nl (the dutch Cenatic) to get the Dutch 'forerunners' from Holland > to attent. It

Re: Issues about the Consorcio e-accessibility projects

2010-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario, le Tue 04 May 2010 17:26:34 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault: > > Yes, it's a separate tool but it depends on liblouis to do all the > > transcription. > > |  How different is it from the "dots" application? > > Dunno, because sincerely we didn't know of this application. I'll tell Oniri

Re: Issues about the Consorcio e-accessibility projects

2010-05-04 Thread Piñeiro
From: Mario > Matteo Vescosi: > > Yes, WARP is planning to use pressage to do the text prediction. You could take a look to the previous work make by Joaquim Rocha related to use presage with Caribou. Take a look to this blog post with a screencast (early-testing stage): http://www.joaquimroch

Re: Issues about the Consorcio e-accessibility projects

2010-05-04 Thread Fernando Herrera
Hi, We were right now setting up the requirements for the Braille transcriptor, and it's really great that there is already an application like this in development. I think the best approach is that we start contributing to dots instead of writing a new application from the scratch. We could work

Re: Issues about the Consorcio e-accessibility projects

2010-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fernando Herrera, le Tue 04 May 2010 18:14:47 +0200, a écrit : > I think the best approach is that we start contributing to dots > instead of writing a new application from the scratch. Since dots is already packaged in Debian, that'd save me time as well :) > 1) Abstract the functionality into a