Open Source OCR

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Lee
It was noted at the Accessibility Summit, http://tinyurl.com/uqen3, that a high quality FOSS OCR is needed and I remember reading earlier that Google have OSed Tesseract. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/191251 It's on a Apache 2.0 License. -- Steve Lee www.oatsof

Re: [oats-sig] Re: harmonizing on-screen keyboard progress

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Lee
Great Henrik, I've added my original thoughts from the moz accessibility list. My ideas have moved on a little and I'm looking at doing something with Mozilla for Firefox initially but with long term cross platform goals in this space. -- Steve Lee www.oatsoft.org www.fullmeasure.co.uk

Re: harmonizing on-screen keyboard progress

2006-10-25 Thread Steve Lee
There's some previous thoughts on this over at mozilla accessibility http://tinyurl.com/ye683x Steve Lee On 10/25/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Bolter wrote: > > Henrik, All, > > > > Hi. I'm just wondering if it migh

Re: Accessability Interfaces

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Lee
Out of interest do assistive technologies (AT) get to use an API or library (similar to ATK for the server applications) or do they use direct CORBA calls?   AT is very unlikely to use a particular GUI for any UI they present as that UI has to be accessible. -- Steve Leewww.oatsoft.orgwww.fullmeasu

Re: Accessability Interfaces

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Lee
hon bindings > -- which I haven't used (yet).>> Note, gok hasn't migrated from cspi to libspi yet (blush).>> cheers,> David> GOK Maintainer>> Steve Lee wrote:>>> Out of interest do assistive technologies (AT) get to use an API or >> libr

Re: Accessability Interfaces

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Lee
wrote:> > Hi Steve,> >> > The at-spi hides nasty stuff like CORBA behind an API.  In early > days we> > used the cspi bindings (for C), but we should all now use the> normative> > C library libspi.  I imagine you are most intereste

Re: what is AT-SPI ?

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Lee
broadcast-based message flows by subscription. This presentation from Bill Haneman is good. http://www.gnome.org/~billh/ArchitecturalOverview.odp and there's more here from Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/access/unix/architecture That's the overview, perhaps someone could correct or ex

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

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Lee
away at CSUN. I encourage others to do like wise in similar magazines in other countries. The proprietary model is so ingrained it needs those guerrilla marketing tactics (which also happen to match Open Source's attention to recognising users needs). -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Techno

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

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Lee
thinkCSpy/ or the official sites beginners guide http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide One of the great things about Python is that you can just sit at the console and try things interactively. A useful quick reference is http://rgruet.free.fr/#QuickRef Have fun -- Steve Lee -- Open

Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Steve Lee
for the short term. Obviously entry level advances rapidly so we should focus more effort the higher spec. I guess many users would only start to consider changing to Linux at the point that they need a new PC (though Linux would perform very well on their older kit) so that also suggests develop

Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-speech, and audio output, moving forward.

2007-10-16 Thread Steve Lee
to check for orca in the say() function and having orca check at startup. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing l

Tapir predictive keyboard

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Lee
.phy.cam.ac.uk/tapir/ -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Tapir predictive keyboard

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Lee
On 28/11/2007, David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks slick. Is this already going to become part of GNOME via Dasher? > cheers, David MacKay has indicated that it will be a separate project as far as they are concerned upstream. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Lee
use or keyboard stops it going above. Perhaps you could update the bug as I don't have an account (oh for openid in all these bugzillas). -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mai

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Lee
d in doing more. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: gnome a11y documentation Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Lee
depth understanding. Quite what structure that takes will be interesting to solve. > If this makes sense, is this something you can help with? I'm interested in helping as this is an area I'm getting more 'into'. However I need to work out a few things for next year. Brian's

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Lee
s to easily find the options or ATs they will benefit from * docs/education/evangalism > 4) Assuming that we can identify a list of tasks in the answers to the > above questions, would you be willing to invest time in the Committee > to chip in and take on tasks to make progress

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Lee
t; > Anyhow, those are some quick thoughts before I need to step out for the > day. Thoughts? > > Will > > PS - I'm going to be on break next week and part of the following week, > but I'll try to keep up with e-mail during that time. > > _

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Lee
> 3) Brainstorming / developing improvements that push the envelope in > the user experience. It's great to have a set of familiar assistive > technologies for people to use today when migrating to GNOME from > other platforms. But a benefit of developing on an open stack with an > excellent (the b

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Lee
On 21/12/2007, Peter Parente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what could we do to push the envelope under the same premise, that > is, reuse existing, commodity hardware and platforms? The Nokia N800 > line of Internet tablet products with Maemo comes to mind. It's > GNOME-based, supports open devel

Collection of AT videos

2008-01-21 Thread Steve Lee
e and GNOME a11y, whether on this channel or another (with care they could also be interesting to people who can only access the speech). -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing

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

2008-01-21 Thread Steve Lee
vers. So there should be operating/window systems guidelines rather than application guidelines. There is a need for guidelines for custom widget use of pointer. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-acce

Re: efficient osk - was GNOME A11y: where do we need to improve?

2008-01-23 Thread Steve Lee
ve not named the exact AT that I am using > because I don't know whether it is good practice > to name commercial items in a free software list. I don't know, I don't think it is a problem as they all help users. BTW there are some interesting resources on the ACE Centre sit

Re: efficient osk - was GNOME A11y: where do we need to improve?

2008-01-23 Thread Steve Lee
On 23/01/2008, Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/01/2008, Francesco Fumanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > maybe I should > > list the main features that I would like to see > > (they also are in the GetInvolved page): > [snip] > > Can you

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

2008-01-24 Thread Steve Lee
ed users,... I agree with Will that we need input and discussion from people with all sorts of skills to do the best possible job and to ensure we are requirements driven. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___

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

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
forms and the Ultra Compact PCs (e.g. eeePC). These look exciting from the point of view of portable communications devices (AAC). The increased presence of Linux in these applications means there is less distance between platforms. For example I have a Linux/Mozilla based Nokia n810 and plan to

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

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
t shows the reality and priorities of software development. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

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

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Lee
resentation at UK RAaTe a11y conference http://fullmeasure.co.uk/raate07 and which is CC. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

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

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Lee
On 26/01/2008, Francesco Fumanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand exactly what you mean by general purpose ATs; what > would be the non general purpose ATs? In fact, in my view the > fonctionalities of the "plugin" would be available sessionwide We may be saying the same thing but u

Re: [gdm-list] Bringing back a11y

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Lee
The trouble is input and output are never quite so decoupled, as in the case of screen readers. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org h

Re: Thin Client Networks was [gdm-list] Bringing back a11y

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Lee
other machine to the application and not assuming everything is on the same machine (as Windows mostly does, even with Terminal Services or RDP). Steve Lee On 12/02/2008, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following on from Steve's point 3 below. > > With the higher availability

Re: March 2008 Linux Journal has articles on GNOME Accessibility

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Lee
format it should be in. At the moment it's text (with a little light markup) plus images. I'm thinking the GNOME wiki is the place to be. -- Steve Lee On 15/02/2008, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All: > > Just a quick note -- Eitan Isaacson and I h

Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Lee
Awesome! Well done everyone and huge thanks to Will for leading us. Now we can see GNOME and Open Source and really rock the accessibility world and even take the lead. I need to lie down. Steve Lee On 17/02/2008, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All: > > The l

Re: GNOME A11y Community IRC Meeting

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Lee
___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk _

Article now on Wiki

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Lee
ility with the Wiki? I might post it somewhere else like a11y.org or even break it up and distribute it over the wiki. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessib

Re: A spotlight on the need for basic reading and writing support in GNOME

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Lee
ns that expose AT-SPI. 4) What are the minimal writing support that needs implementing? Steve Lee On 21/02/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > My name is Mats Lundalv (employed at the DART AAC and AT centre, as well as > at the Swedish Instit

Re: Re: A spotlight on the need for basic reading and writing support in GNOME

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Lee
to spelling/prediction etc? -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Quick notes on the mechanics of the AT-SPI infrastructure

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Lee
are for. We can refactor later. The important thing is to get all that stuff out of peoples heads so it can be shared.. Nice one Will. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-acc

Re: Thoughts on testing and outreach

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Lee
nfrastructure should have good unit/automated test suits for regression etc. Steve Lee On 23/02/2008, Eitan Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think a few stuff were left in the air about the huge testing > challenge we face, and how to put the outreach progr

Dasher project needs volunteers

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Lee
I don't know if it is common knowledge but the amazing Dasher project is in need of some TLC, particularly maintainers and developers, but all contributions would be most welcome. http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/283248.html -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Techn

Re: Thoughts on speech

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Lee
; >> As an exercise, what do you all think of us having a somewhat > >> impassioned and pragmatic discussion about the various features and > >> the current state of gnome-speech and Speech Dispatcher? > >> > >> Will > >> _

Re: Dasher

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Lee
there any way we can get an idea of numbers of users? We could ping the dasher team but they might be a little biased ;-) -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-access

Re: Dasher

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Lee
#x27;s one of his favourite topics. One of the Project Possibility Semester teams are working on a predictive engine, I have slides so could scan them for you. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software www.fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome-a

Re: Time for another IRC meeting?

2008-03-25 Thread Steve Lee
be done, and we need good people: > > http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/ > > Will > ___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnom

Re: Time for another IRC meeting?

2008-04-09 Thread Steve Lee
one, and we need good people: > > > > http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/ > > > > Will > > > > ___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mai

Re: [Accessibility] Nokia to fund D-Bus based accessibility

2008-04-26 Thread Steve Lee
ka, Phone: +1.202.595.;sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > > > > > > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the > > > U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://Screenless

Re: GOPA: Magnification proposal

2008-05-05 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks Kristian, that gives a very clear picture of the situation and issues. Good luck My impression is that this will also act as a good basis for future advanced and innovative mag features. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net

Re: Sending a hide() signal to a given widget ?

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Lee
#x27;actions' that have been specifically exposed through it (like click this button). General GUI operations are performed by the application using other APIs, in this case GTK. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk bl

Re: This Monday's 13:30UTC IRC meeting: special guests from RedHat :-)

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Lee
Thanks Will, that is very encouraging. A fully accessible login experience in all the scenarios that have been identified will be a real plus for Linux + GNOME. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog 2008/5/15 Willie

Re: This Monday's 13:30UTC IRC meeting: special guests from RedHat :-)

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Lee
In order to help me organise my thoughts on this I did a brief analysis of my understanding of the current state of alt input options. I'm posting it here in case anyone else finds it useful as well. http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/348733.html Steve Lee On 15/05/2008, Willie Walker &l

Re: ASUS Eee PC

2008-06-30 Thread Steve Lee
was running Ubuntu on his eeePC at CSUN last year when I spoke to him. You could ping them on IRC to see how it has gone. I understand some of the hardware requires non-free drivers, which is a bizare choice for a Linux device. -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: full

Re: GOK module maintainership

2008-07-21 Thread Steve Lee
_______ > 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: Mouse scroll wheel/button and hand dexterity

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Lee
he wheel in FF. So I just looked in Firefox's about:config and setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false does the trick for me. There's also a middlemouse.openNewWindow but I'm not sure when that comes into effect. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullm

Re: Mouse scroll wheel/button and hand dexterity

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Lee
2008/7/30 Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We probably need to do better integrating the various customizations > available. We also need to expand our existing specs where functionality > is missing. > > The Open A11y group has finished a Keyboard I/O spec which goes only so > far as what is in

Re: GOPA reviews at upcoming #a11y meetings

2008-08-07 Thread Steve Lee
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 Acces

Re: Will not be present at next week's meeting.

2008-08-30 Thread Steve Lee
list >> >> ___ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >> > > ___ &

Re: Help!

2008-09-01 Thread Steve Lee
o know the softwares that you know > I need to find this softwares, test it and detail all!! > > Thank for help! > > Aprendiz! > > > > ___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http

Re: Help!

2008-09-01 Thread Steve Lee
2008/9/1 Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > and there's a list on www.oatsoft.org - search for 'activity' (sorry > it's down at the moment) This is the page http://www.oatsoft.org/Forge/articles/accessibility-activities/ Steve -- Steve Lee Open Source A

Re: Text reader

2008-09-02 Thread Steve Lee
ca> >> >> Actually I mean a text reader in the sense that you could choose a text >> file or just type some sentence and let the computer read it for you. >> Orca is a screen reader. >> >> Cheers, > > ___

Re: Text reader

2008-09-02 Thread Steve Lee
ou get when > you open a text file in a text editor (such as Gedit) and read it with Orca? > > Best regards, Tomas > ___ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/list

Accessibility project ideas

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Lee
Project:Possibility are looking for accessibility project ideas to let students loose on. http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/448589.html -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk ___ gnome

Re: Mouse/Numpad and Topkeys app

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Lee
> 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 maili

fwd: Eye Gaze Study Day - 5 November 2008, London

2008-10-10 Thread Steve Lee
with MouseTrap... http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/225753.html. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk Eye Gaze Study Day - 5 November 2008, London Eye Gaze has long been considered to offer vast potential as an access metho

Re: [g-a-devel] Announcing AEGIS - a €12. 6m investment in open source accessibility

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Lee
Peter this is totally fantastic and even better news than I had hoped for. Thank you for all your hard work making this possible. Many, many people are going to benefit from the improved open accessibility. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility

Re: screencasts - license

2008-10-18 Thread Steve Lee
public 'commons' . However as the important thing is to spread the word PD is probably OK. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk 2008/10/18 Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Willie: > >> I'm a

Re: [GOK] Why ui grabbing in direct selection mode of gok?

2008-10-19 Thread Steve Lee
t;> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > ___ > gok-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mai

Re: Ang. Re: [GOK] Why ui grabbing in direct selection mode of gok?

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Lee
on D-Bus work makes this much more acceptable, as does the increased use of UI testing via AT-SPI, where it is critical to be testing the 'live' system not something with an option that is off for most users. Steve -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software

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

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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: [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

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: 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

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

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

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