Edgy+1 Accessibility planning meeting

2006-10-16 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hello! Time: Oct, 23rd, 19:00 UTC Place: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda We recently had an Accessibility team meeting where we focused on getting the Edgy Eft release tested and polished. We also did a quick round of

Re: [Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.17.1]

2006-10-16 Thread g . sportelli
FYI...Orca v2.17.1 was posted today. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list my orca with festival italian con ubuntu 6..6.1 crash with evolution

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.oatsoft.org

gnome-panel crash (was Re: [Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.17.1])

2006-10-16 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Will, folks (CCing ubuntu-accessibility for good measure). gnome-panel seems to crash a lot and quite spontaneously on Ubuntu, Phew! I was starting to think I had personally managed to muck something up really well. more information about what you might be doing at the time of the crash?

Re: Open Source OCR

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Folks: I just downloaded, built, and tested this OCR engine. It is really pretty good, and it was very easy to build. At the moment it is a bit limited (requires TIFF format, 8 bit depth, and doesn't understand columns etc.) but the limitations don't seem to be in the engine, only in the

Ubuntu Accessability

2006-10-16 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi All I am having some guys from the local LUG come around to mine tomorrow to load up Ubuntu 6 - not sure which sub version - onto my PC. Can you please let me know what accessability is in-built into this distro? I want to achieve as near as possible an equivilant to Windows ZoomText in

Fwd: others?Fwd: Open Source OCR

2006-10-16 Thread David Poehlman
there is also GOCR and Ocrad which are open source. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-16 Thread Eduardo TrĂ¡pani
Hi, I'll talking about accessibility in general and I would love to show a (more or less) working linux desktop solution for blind people since everybody I know uses Jaws/Windows :(. What should I install to be able to show that? Gnome, KDE, it does not matter as long as it works and is

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

2006-10-16 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Eduardo TrĂ¡pani wrote: Hi, I'll talking about accessibility in general and I would love to show a (more or less) working linux desktop solution for blind people since everybody I know uses Jaws/Windows :(. What should I install to be able to show that? Gnome, KDE, it does not matter as

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

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Haneman
The SpeechDispatcher API has some limitations which make the user experience with orca a little less nice - as I understand it, SpeechDispatcher doesn't support completion/progress tags within an utterance, it can only tell you when an entire utterance is complete. While I hear that espeak's