Re: java-atk-wrapper in ubuntu 20.04
Hello, Halim Sahin, le sam. 17 oct. 2020 09:55:45 +0200, a ecrit: > there seems to be a problem with atkwrapper in Ubuntu focal. > When I run a java application orca reads nothing and the app itself seems to > be crashed. Which application is this? > Is this a known problem? No, otherwise it would either be fixed, or the package would have been dropped out of release-critical-bug-ness. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: How is Ubuntu-mate 18.04 enabling QT accessibility?
Dave Hunt, le mer. 29 août 2018 18:12:11 -0400, a ecrit: > I've looked in ~/.profile and /etc/profile.d/mate-qt.sh and cannot find where > the accessibility switches are enabled; I'd like to make this access work on a > machine running Arch. This is probably in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90qt-a11y which would do: QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_ACCESSIBILITY Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability
Alex ARNAUD, on mar. 20 mars 2018 17:33:25 +0100, wrote: > Is Dasher should be configured to replace the keyboard when I open a text > edition field? IIRC that has never been implemented. It would be a matter of making it e.g. an ibus input method or such. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability
Mats L, on mar. 20 mars 2018 16:22:25 +0100, wrote: > Unfortunately the GNU/Linux environments are badly missing a full-featured > tailorable on-screen keyboard alternative (including switch input etc.) > following up on the [4]GOK project since it was discontinued. Is onboard not the continuation of GOK? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: It is time for me to depart.
Hello, Luke Yelavich, on mer. 08 nov. 2017 12:46:30 +1100, wrote: > It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my > departure from free and open source software development. Uh :/ I'm very sorry about this. Of course I understand your decision, and understand how difficult it must be for you; you will for sure be missed. > I am sure I will return one day, with renewed motivation, enthusiasm, and a > desire to contribute again. I definitely hope so, and you'll always be welcome back! Cheers and all the best for your coming projects, Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Accessibility topic of LSM 2017
LSM/RMLL 2017 17th Libre Software Meeting July 1-7, 2017 Saint-Etienne, France http://2017.rmll.info/ Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility topic [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] Last call before deadline : march *31st* 2017 Sharing of knowledge, freedom of information, community spirit, exchange of ideas, technological progress: every year the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) follows the Libre philosophy. RMLL/LSM is a non-commercial series of conferences, round tables discussions and practical workshops based on Libre/Free Software and its uses. Its aim is to provide a platform for Libre/Free Software users, developers and stakeholders. Access to LSM is free of charge and open to everyone. The conference will be held in Beauvais from July 1st to July 7, 2017. We hereby announce the opportunity to submit papers for selection by the technical review committee for the RMLL/LSM 2017. This year again we would like to put a particular emphasis on accessibility on the whole RMLL/LSM event. We will have our usual workshop, as described below, but we would like to have accessibility talks held in other sessions too, if possible all of them, as was achieved in 2010 in Bordeaux. We thus invite you to submit your accessibility talks to various topics, so as to broaden the audience of accessibility questions. Concerning our dedicated accessibility workshop, to better target the various exchanges that will be taking place, the programme committee of the accessibility workshop proposes several kinds of meetings: - "Solution" meetings, with conferences and round tables to present solutions dedicated to previous areas. - "State of the art" conferences between practitioners, developers, scientists and users to discuss about what exists according to the specific needs of users, what works well or a little less well, to talk about approaches... - "Technical" presentations between developers and scientists. This will allow initiation of exchanges between communities that do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and will maybe lead to new collaborations or projects. Finally, a workshop area will be available to try out and exchange tools presented by their authors or by seasoned users of those solutions. Information on workshops from last event is available on - https://2015.rmll.info/accessibilite Information on the previous global RMLL/LSM emphasis on accessibility in 2010 is available on - http://2010.rmll.info/+-Accessibilite,2-+.html You will be able to attend conferences on other related issues such as "System Administration" (like Nagios, GLPI, Cfengine, ...), "Development" (like NoSQL, Lucene, GCC, ...), "Law" (like Licenses,OpenData, FSF, ...), "Internet" (WebGL, Jabber, Typo3, ...), ... Conferences from last year are available on : - https://2015.rmll.info/conferences-et-ateliers If you are interested in participating, please have a look at the topics presentation on https://2017.rmll.info/pages/themes.html and submit your presentation at: https://2017.rmll.info/cfp/talk/new Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested. We welcome your participation and input and look forward for a valuable meeting. Deadlines = The following dates are important if you wish to participate to the call for papers. Abstract submission: no later than 31st of March 2017 Submission guidelines Speakers should submit an abstract in English or French ; about 400 words, and in 2 languages if possible. If accepted, this abstract will be published on the website. Submissions should be submitted via this form: https://2017.rmll.info/cfp/talk/new Submissions should also include the following: * Contact information and Geographical location of presenter (country of origin/passport). * A brief biography. * Any significant presentation and/or educational experience/background. * For technical topics: Reason why this material is innovative, significant or an useful tutorial. * Optionally, any outlines or samples of prepared materials. * Information whether the submission has already been presented, and if so, where. Personal information will be used exclusively for the sole purpose of the RMLL/LSM committee and shall not be shared with third parties. If the paper is not accepted for the main session, it may be accepted for a short-form or "lightning talk" session. Travel Assistance Non-commercial and based upon volunteer work, RMLL/LSM are events with limited resources. However, speakers who exhibit particular need may receive a refund for their transportation charges at the discretion of the selection committee. If you know the estimated cost of the transportation, providing this will make it easier for
Re: accessible EFI?
Hello, Eric Oyen, on Fri 27 May 2016 22:30:41 -0700, wrote: > does anyone happen to know if there is a project to make an accessible EFI? I had discussed about it with an Intel tiano core developer, he said that technically it's very possible, as an EFI module. It "just" needs people working on it... > Also, does anyone happen to know what programming environment is used to > compile a working EFI image? Well, an assembler and a C compiler I guess :) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: how can I get a beep sound when GRUB appears
Milton, le Thu 17 Sep 2015 18:27:37 +0200, a écrit : > #GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1" > > So I did uncomment the line and ran update-grub. > But still no beep. Do I miss something? That should be it. You can check in your /boot/grub/grub.cfg that the "play 480 440 1" command appears, and that there is /boot/grub/i386-pc/play.mod. If so, then perhaps your machine simply doesn't have a standard PC speaker :/ Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: is there a development project for the Braille Sense?
Luke Yelavich, le Mon 31 Aug 2015 10:03:01 +1000, a écrit : On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:52:00AM AEST, Eric Oyen wrote: Is there a development project to compile a running version for the braille sense U2? I am trying to find out what ARM chip they are using and a few other specifications. The device currently runs on windows CE 6 (ugh!) and only has a few apps developed for that execution environment. If at all possible, I would like to compile and make a full firmware installation image that would boot up on there and give me a braille supported interface. If the hardware has an Android port, then GNU/Linux would be a possibility. However, if the hardware is only running Windows CE, then its highly likely that it cannot run Ubuntu, since its not likely that the ARM chip supports ARM v7 instructions. Other distributions like Debian should however be runnable (armhf arch). Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Accessibility and mobility topic of LSM 2015
LSM/RMLL 2015 16th Libre Software Meeting July 4-10, 2015 Beauvais, France http://2015.rmll.info/ Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility and mobility topic [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] Last call before deadline : march *31st* 2015 Sharing of knowledge, freedom of information, community spirit, exchange of ideas, technological progress: every year the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) follows the Libre philosophy. RMLL/LSM is a non-commercial series of conferences, round tables discussions and practical workshops based on Libre/Free Software and its uses. Its aim is to provide a platform for Libre/Free Software users, developers and stakeholders. Access to LSM is free of charge and open to everyone. The conference will be held in Montpellier from July 4 to July 10, 2015. We hereby announce the opportunity to submit papers for selection by the technical review committee for the RMLL/LSM 2015. This year again we would like to put a particular emphasis on accessibility on the whole RMLL/LSM event. We will have our usual workshop, as described below, but we would like to have accessibility talks held in other sessions too, if possible all of them, as was achieved in 2010 in Bordeaux. One of the reasons for that is that in France, on 1st January 2015, a law entered in action to require accessibility of all public places. Now is thus the time to enter in action if not done already! We thus invite you to submit your accessibility talks to other topics than the health topic, so as to broaden the audience of accessibility questions. Concerning our dedicated accessibility and mobility workshop, to better target the various exchanges that will be taking place, the programme committee of the accessibility and mobility workshop proposes several kinds of meetings: - Solution meetings, with conferences and round tables to present solutions dedicated to previous areas. - State of the art conferences between practitioners, developers, scientists and users to discuss about what exists according to the specific needs of users, what works well or a little less well, to talk about approaches... - Technical presentations between developers and scientists. This will allow initiation of exchanges between communities that do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and will maybe lead to new collaborations or projects. Finally, a workshop area will be available to try out and exchange tools presented by their authors or by seasoned users of those solutions. Information on workshops from last year is available on - https://2014.rmll.info/schedule?redline=accessibility#schedule Information on the previous global RMLL/LSM emphasis on accessibility in 2010 is available on - http://2010.rmll.info/+-Accessibilite,2-+.html You will be able to attend conferences on other related issues such as System Administration (like Nagios, GLPI, Cfengine, ...), Development (like NoSQL, Lucene, GCC, ...), Law (like Licenses,OpenData, FSF, ...), Internet (WebGL, Jabber, Typo3, ...), ... Conferences from last year are available on : - http://schedule2013.rmll.info/ If you are interested in participating, please submit your presentation at: https://2015.rmll.info/programme/article/appel-a-conferences Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested. We welcome your participation and input and look forward for a valuable meeting. Deadlines = The following dates are important if you wish to participate to the call for papers. Abstract submission: no later than 31st of March 2015 Submission guidelines Speakers should submit an abstract in English or French ; about 400 words, and in 2 languages if possible. If accepted, this abstract will be published on the website. Submissions should be submitted via this form: https://2015.rmll.info/programme/article/appel-a-conferences Submissions should also include the following: * Contact information and Geographical location of presenter (country of origin/passport). * A brief biography. * Any significant presentation and/or educational experience/background. * For technical topics: Reason why this material is innovative, significant or an useful tutorial. * Optionally, any outlines or samples of prepared materials. * Information whether the submission has already been presented, and if so, where. Personal information will be used exclusively for the sole purpose of the RMLL/LSM committee and shall not be shared with third parties. If the paper is not accepted for the main session, it may be accepted for a short-form or lightning talk session. Travel Assistance Non-commercial and based upon volunteer work, RMLL/LSM are events with limited resources. However, speakers who
[Extended call] Accessibility and mobility topic of LSM 2014
Hello, The call for talks for LSM has been extended up to 15th April, please consider submitting talks! Thanks, Samuel LSM/RMLL 2014 15th Libre Software Meeting July 5-11, 2014 Montpellier, France http://2014.rmll.info/ Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility and mobility topic [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] Last call before deadline : april *15th* 2014 Sharing of knowledge, freedom of information, community spirit, exchange of ideas, technological progress: every year the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) follows the Libre philosophy. RMLL/LSM is a non-commercial series of conferences, round tables discussions and practical workshops based on Libre/Free Software and its uses. Its aim is to provide a platform for Libre/Free Software users, developers and stakeholders. Access to LSM is free of charge and open to everyone. The conference will be held in Montpellier from July 5 to July 11, 2014. We hereby announce the opportunity to submit papers for selection by the technical review committee for the RMLL/LSM 2014. This year we would like to put a particular emphasis on accessibility on the whole RMLL/LSM event. We will have our usual workshop, as described below, but we would like to have accessibility talks held in other sessions too, if possible all of them, as was achieved in 2010 in Bordeaux. One of the reasons for that is that in France, on 1st January 2015, a law will enter in action to require accessibility of all public places. 2014 is the last year to get ready for this. We thus invite you to submit your accessibility talks to other topics than the health topic, so as to broaden the audience of accessibility questions. Concerning our dedicated accessibility and mobility workshop, to better target the various exchanges that will be taking place, the programme committee of the accessibility and mobility workshop proposes several kinds of meetings: - Solution meetings, with conferences and round tables to present solutions dedicated to previous areas. - State of the art conferences between practitioners, developers, scientists and users to discuss about what exists according to the specific needs of users, what works well or a little less well, to talk about approaches... - Technical presentations between developers and scientists. This will allow initiation of exchanges between communities that do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and will maybe lead to new collaborations or projects. Finally, a workshop area will be available to try out and exchange tools presented by their authors or by seasoned users of those solutions. Information on workshops from last year is available on - http://schedule2013.rmll.info/programme/sante/accessibilite-autonomie-et-gestion/ Information on the previous global RMLL/LSM emphasis on accessibility in 2010 is available on - http://2010.rmll.info/+-Accessibilite,2-+.html You will be able to attend conferences on other related issues such as System Administration (like Nagios, GLPI, Cfengine, ...), Development (like NoSQL, Lucene, GCC, ...), Law (like Licenses,OpenData, FSF, ...), Internet (WebGL, Jabber, Typo3, ...), ... Conferences from last year are available on : - http://schedule2013.rmll.info/ This year, LSM will have as guiding thread Free software and you, which can be particularly suited to the accessibility and mobility topic :) If you are interested in participating, please submit your presentation at: https://2014.rmll.info/Appel-a-conferences Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested. We welcome your participation and input and look forward for a valuable meeting. Deadlines = The following dates are important if you wish to participate to the call for papers. Abstract submission: no later than 15th of april 2014 Submission guidelines Speakers should submit an abstract in English or French ; about 400 words, and in 2 languages if possible. If accepted, this abstract will be published on the website. Submissions should be submitted via this form: https://2014.rmll.info/Appel-a-conferences Submissions should also include the following: * Contact information and Geographical location of presenter (country of origin/passport). * A brief biography. * Any significant presentation and/or educational experience/background. * For technical topics: Reason why this material is innovative, significant or an useful tutorial. * Optionally, any outlines or samples of prepared materials. * Information whether the submission has already been presented, and if so, where. Personal information will be used exclusively for the sole purpose of the RMLL/LSM committee and shall not be shared with third parties. If the paper is not accepted for the
Accessibility and mobility topic of LSM 2014
LSM/RMLL 2014 15th Libre Software Meeting July 5-11, 2014 Montpellier, France http://2014.rmll.info/ Call For Papers and Participation limited to accessibility and mobility topic [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] Last call before deadline : march *31st* 2014 Sharing of knowledge, freedom of information, community spirit, exchange of ideas, technological progress: every year the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) follows the Libre philosophy. RMLL/LSM is a non-commercial series of conferences, round tables discussions and practical workshops based on Libre/Free Software and its uses. Its aim is to provide a platform for Libre/Free Software users, developers and stakeholders. Access to LSM is free of charge and open to everyone. The conference will be held in Montpellier from July 5 to July 11, 2014. We hereby announce the opportunity to submit papers for selection by the technical review committee for the RMLL/LSM 2014. This year we would like to put a particular emphasis on accessibility on the whole RMLL/LSM event. We will have our usual workshop, as described below, but we would like to have accessibility talks held in other sessions too, if possible all of them, as was achieved in 2010 in Bordeaux. One of the reasons for that is that in France, on 1st January 2015, a law will enter in action to require accessibility of all public places. 2014 is the last year to get ready for this. We thus invite you to submit your accessibility talks to other topics than the health topic, so as to broaden the audience of accessibility questions. Concerning our dedicated accessibility and mobility workshop, to better target the various exchanges that will be taking place, the programme committee of the accessibility and mobility workshop proposes several kinds of meetings: - Solution meetings, with conferences and round tables to present solutions dedicated to previous areas. - State of the art conferences between practitioners, developers, scientists and users to discuss about what exists according to the specific needs of users, what works well or a little less well, to talk about approaches... - Technical presentations between developers and scientists. This will allow initiation of exchanges between communities that do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and will maybe lead to new collaborations or projects. Finally, a workshop area will be available to try out and exchange tools presented by their authors or by seasoned users of those solutions. Information on workshops from last year is available on - http://schedule2013.rmll.info/programme/sante/accessibilite-autonomie-et-gestion/ Information on the previous global RMLL/LSM emphasis on accessibility in 2010 is available on - http://2010.rmll.info/+-Accessibilite,2-+.html You will be able to attend conferences on other related issues such as System Administration (like Nagios, GLPI, Cfengine, ...), Development (like NoSQL, Lucene, GCC, ...), Law (like Licenses,OpenData, FSF, ...), Internet (WebGL, Jabber, Typo3, ...), ... Conferences from last year are available on : - http://schedule2013.rmll.info/ This year, LSM will have as guiding thread Free software and you, which can be particularly suited to the accessibility and mobility topic :) If you are interested in participating, please submit your presentation at: https://2014.rmll.info/Appel-a-conferences Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested. We welcome your participation and input and look forward for a valuable meeting. Deadlines = The following dates are important if you wish to participate to the call for papers. Abstract submission: no later than 31st of March 2014 Submission guidelines Speakers should submit an abstract in English or French ; about 400 words, and in 2 languages if possible. If accepted, this abstract will be published on the website. Submissions should be submitted via this form: https://2014.rmll.info/Appel-a-conferences Submissions should also include the following: * Contact information and Geographical location of presenter (country of origin/passport). * A brief biography. * Any significant presentation and/or educational experience/background. * For technical topics: Reason why this material is innovative, significant or an useful tutorial. * Optionally, any outlines or samples of prepared materials. * Information whether the submission has already been presented, and if so, where. Personal information will be used exclusively for the sole purpose of the RMLL/LSM committee and shall not be shared with third parties. If the paper is not accepted for the main session, it may be accepted for a short-form or lightning talk session. Travel
Accessibility topic of LSM 2013
LSM/RMLL 2013 14th Libre Software Meeting July 6-11, 2013 Brussels, BELGIUM http://2013.rmll.info/ Call For Papers and Participation limited on health accessibility topic [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] Last call before deadline : march *31st* 2013 Sharing of knowledge, freedom of information, community spirit, exchange of ideas, technological progress: every year the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) follows the Libre philosophy. RMLL/LSM are non-commercial series of conferences, round tables discussions and practical workshops based on Libre/Free Software and its uses. Its aim is to provide a platform for Libre/Free Software users, developers and stakeholders. Access to LSM is free of charge and open to everyone. The conference will be held in Brussels from July 6 to July 11, 2013. We hereby announce the opportunity to submit papers for selection by the technical review committee for the RMLL/LSM 2013. Each year the accessibility, autonomy and dependency management workshop is held as part of this broader meeting. The LSM committee aims to disseminate and improve Libre projects in the health and accessibility domains through this workshop. To better target the various exchanges that will be taking place, the programme committee of the health accessibility workshop proposes several kinds of meetings: - Solution meetings, with conferences and round tables to present solutions dedicated to previous areas. - State of the art conferences between practitioners, developers, scientists and users to discuss about what exists according to the specific needs of users, what works well or a little less well, to talk about approaches... - Technical presentations between developers and scientists. This will allow initiation of exchanges between communities that do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and will maybe lead to new collaborations or projects. Finally, a workshop area will be available to try out and exchange tools presented by their authors or by seasoned users of those solutions. ... Information on health workshops from previous annual meetings are available on : - http://schedule2012.rmll.info/-Accessibilite-autonomie-et-gestion-de-la-dependance- You will be able to attend conferences on other related issues such as System Administration (like Nagios, GLPI, Cfengine, ...), Development (like NoSQL, Lucene, GCC, ...), Law (like Licenses,OpenData, FSF, ...), Internet (WebGL, Jabber, Typo3, ...), ... All previous conferences are available on : - http://schedule2012.rmll.info/ This year, LSM will have as guiding thread Everyday Freedom, which can be particularly suited to the accessibility topic :) If you are interested to participate, please submit your presentation at: http://2013.rmll.info/submit-your-talk/talk/new Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested. We welcome your participation and input and look forward for a valuable meeting. Deadlines = The following dates are important if you wish to participate to the call for papers. Abstract submission: no later than 31st of March 2013 Notification date: 15th of April 2013 Submission guidelines Speakers should submit an abstract in English, French or Dutch; limited to 400 words; and in 2 languages if possible. The program committee will review all papers and the author of each paper will be notified of the result by electronic means. If accepted, this abstract will be published on the website. Submissions should be submitted via this form: http://2013.rmll.info/cfp Submissions should also include the following: * Contact information and Geographical location of presenter (country of origin/passport). * A brief biography. * Any significant presentation and/or educational experience/background. * For technical topics: Reason why this material is innovative, significant or an useful tutorial. * Optionally, any outlines or samples of prepared materials. * Information whether the submission has already been presented, and if so, where. Personal information will be used exclusively for the sole purpose of the RMLL/LSM committee and shall not be shared with third parties. If the paper is not accepted for the main session, it may be accepted for a short-form or lightning talk session. Travel Assistance Non-commercial and based upon volunteer work, RMLL/LSM are events with limited resources. However, speakers who exhibit particular need may receive a refund for their transportation charges at the discretion of the selection committee. If you know the estimated cost of the transportation, providing this will make it easier for us to obtain a clearer view of the expenses that will be incurred.
Re: Talking debian installer (d-i) for Ubuntu
Jeffrey Malewski, le Thu 24 Jan 2013 10:52:28 -0500, a écrit :
They are available as .udeb or source (tar.bz2) I am
unsure how to add the alsa, espeak, and espeakup .udebs to the initrd.img so
I am unsure either. I how how it happens in the Debian d-i, but I don't
know the installer is built in Ubuntu. Ideally you'd just need to add
the speakup-modules-${kernel:Version} sound-modules-${kernel:Version}
and espeakup-udeb into the package list of the Ubuntu installer, but I
don't know how that works, that's why I advised you to see with the
Ubuntu installer maintainers.
my
first question is whether I would be better off to build the di kernel as a
monolithic kernel or not.
Probably not. It's probably easier to let speakup as modules, and let
the rootskel init scripts automatically load the module and
espeakup-udeb start the synth.
The Debian Cd has a
mechanism to disable the gtk frontend so that the installer runs in a pure
text
environment (everything is directly on-screen rather than ina dialoge box)
which allows speakup to read the options as they appear on-screen. Is this
something I should try to incorporate into the modified initrd.img?
I believe Ubuntu still has something like this, called alternate
installer. Again, see with the installer maintainers.
I don't have the time to discuss with these maintainers myself, but keep
me in Cc, and I'll help if I see there are misunderstandings, or some
experience from Debian can be useful.
Samuel
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Re: Will be ship Quantal with Liblouis 2.5.0 or 2.5.1 release? Very important packaging a new version to works Orca with contracted braille feature in Ubuntu 12.10.
Hello, Alan Bell, le Fri 28 Sep 2012 08:58:27 +0100, a écrit : looks like this is 2.4.1 in Debian too http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/liblouis so this is more than a sync request from debian I have just uploaded 2.5.1 into debian experimental. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessibility Meta-package or pp?
Dave Hunt, le Tue 13 Mar 2012 13:12:30 -0400, a écrit : Is there a single package or ppa containing the accessibility for Ubuntu 12.04? This would be handy for derivative distros, like Trisquel, to be sure their accessibility is the latest and complete. My question is prompted by an experience with the Trisquel 5.5 beta, in which orca was present, but without libgail-3. The lack of this library caused many objects, known to be accessible with orca, not to work properly. I added all things libgail-3 from the repositories, and my system is as accessible as any Ubuntu 11.10, running orca, and using Gnome Classic desktop. Ideally gnome should just always depend on it, so that all desktops are accessible already without having to add anything else. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Health Accessibility topic of LSM 2012
LSM/RMLL 2012 13th Libre Software Meeting July 7-12, 2012 Geneva, SWITZERLAND http://2012.rmll.info/ Call For Papers and Participation limited on health accessibility topic [we apologize for duplicate receipt of this message] Last call before deadline : march *31* 2012 Dear Colleague, The 13th Libre Software Meeting (LSM) takes place in Geneva, Switzerland, July 7-12 2012 (http://2012.rmll.info/). LSM is an annual non-commercial conference on Libre Softwares that includes round tables and practical workshops. The objective is to provide a place where users, developers and promoters of Libre Software can exchange ideas and information. Attendance is free and open to everyone. Each year the health accessibility workshop is held as part of this broader meeting. This year, it will be organized around 3 major fields: - Accessibility, autonomy and dependency management (mobile/web accessibility, accessible desktop applications, usability, ...) - Hospital information system Tele-health (EHR, telemedicine systems, workflow solutions, PACS, HL7, ...) - Imaging visualization of medical data (CAS, CAD, bio-imaging, image acquisition/processing/segmentation/registration, simulation, organ tracking ...) We invite presentations that address these major fields. The LSM committee aims to disseminate and improve Libre projects in the health and accessibility domains through this workshop. To better target the various exchanges that will be taking place, the programme committee of the health accessibility workshop proposes several kinds of meetings: - Solution meetings, with conferences and round tables to present solutions dedicated to previous areas. - State of the art conferences between practitioners, developers, scientists and users to discuss about what exists according to the specific needs of users, what works well or a little less well, to talk about approaches... - Technical presentations between developers and scientists. This will allow initiation of exchanges between communities that do not necessarily have the opportunity to meet and will maybe lead to new collaborations or projects. Finally, a workshop area will be available to try out and exchange tools presented by their authors or by seasoned users of those solutions. Last year the health accessibility workshop received (for example) the following projects: Chewing Word, drupal, FreeMedForms, GDCM, ITK, joomla kaekus, odt2braille, OpenStreetMap, OsiriX, typo3, ubuntu, VTK, WEASIS, wordpress, ... ... Information on health workshops from previous annual meetings are available on : - http://2011.rmll.info/-Sante-accessibilite-et-handicap-?lang=en You will be able to attend conferences on other related issues such as System Administration (like Nagios, GLPI, Cfengine, ...), Development (like NoSQL, Lucene, GCC, ...), Law (like Licenses,OpenData, FSF, ...), Internet (WebGL, Jabber, Typo3, ...), ... All previous conferences are available on : - http://2011.rmll.info/-Programme-?lang=en This year, LSM will have also 3 transversal topics (thread) : • Cloud • Common goods • Libre economy If you are interested to participate, please submit your presentation at: http://call.rmll.info/talk/new Please feel free to share this information with others people who may be interested. We welcome your participation and input and look forward for a valuable meeting. *IMPORTANT* *DATES*: - The deadline for submission is 31 March 2012. - The list of accepted presentations will be announced 15 April, 2012. - Meeting: July 7-12, 2012. *ABSTRACT* *SUBMISSION*: - The call for papers is available here: EN : http://2012.rmll.info/participer/call-for-papers DE : http://2012.rmll.info/participer/call-for-papers-deutsch FR : http://2012.rmll.info/participer/appel-a-conferences - And you can answer on : http://call.rmll.info/ (Note, you can submit in *english* or *french*) Best regards, Programme Commitee of the LSM 2012 health/accessibility topic -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: speakup under oneiric
Jude DaShiell, le Mon 17 Oct 2011 01:29:32 -0400, a écrit : speechd-up and speakup do not play nicely together. One or the other is possible but not both.On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, mk360 wrote: You mean speechd-up and espeakup, I guess. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Speakup on ubuntu 11.4
Hello, mk360, le Thu 07 Jul 2011 11:18:36 -0400, a écrit : DKMS make.log for speakup-3.1.5.dfsg.1 for kernel 2.6.38-8-generic-pae For recent versions of linux, you do not need to install speakup, it is already provided in Linux itself. Simply modprobe speakup_ltlk for instance, and voila. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
LSM from 9th to 14th july 2011
Hello, The Libre Software Meeting (LSM, RMLL) will take place from 9th to 14th july 2011 in Strasbourg. All the information are available on http://rmll.info For people who would like lost-cost accomodation, reservations are now open. Reservation is recommended anyway, to get a badge and Internet access. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: daisy player
mattias, le Thu 16 Jun 2011 01:34:50 +0200, a écrit : exist one? ubunu natty 64 bit One has been added to oneiric, called daisy-player. The dependencies are relaxed enough that you should be able to install it without having to upgrade your Ubuntu system at all. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Arabic Screen Reader
Barakat El-Dareer, le Fri 19 Nov 2010 12:57:43 +0300, a écrit : I'm so wonder if your team work on Arabic language support for Orca , especially there are a lot of theme on Windows Hal, NVDA , Jaws and so on, that makes 1/6 of blindness people around the word out of Ubuntu. Well, it should already be working: just select the arabic table in the brltty preference menu, or use the arabic contraction table in orca itself, and it should be working. It however seems like at-spi is reporting digested arabic letters, i.e. not just use the U+06xy unicode plane, but the U+FExy plane instead. In any case, it's more a bug than a missing feature: arabic tables are there already (and NVDA actually just uses the same table). Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Hardware-based screen magnification
Hello, Now that xrandr 1.3 has panning support again, I have written a small documentation on how this can be used for simple hardware-based screen magnification: http://brl.thefreecat.org/wiki/Xorg the advantage over compiz-based magnification being that it's completely hardware-driven (except the mouse tracking), thus CPU-free and smooth. Concerning Orca, that could be an option that users might prefer on sluggish machines. Concerning Gnome, the shortcut to cycle modes might be a useful addition. Integrating panning configuration in a nice gui tool would probably be useful too. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.7 Beta -- Please help with testing
trev.saund...@gmail.com, le Tue 27 Apr 2010 14:30:39 -0400, a écrit : THere is a rather large local security problem with your use of unix sockets. It is very easy for a local hostile user to cause a denial of service, because you put the unix sockets in a world readable place with *very* predictable names. They are so predictable because a the only thing that the attacker has to gues is the UID of the user, and because UID's for standard users start at 1000, and are assigned in order, the attacker would only have to create say 100 files, wich with a simple shell script is trivial. That's actually not really new, compared to the previous TCP/IP approach. The place (or port number) has to be well-known for applications to be able to connect to it anyway, so any security layer needs to be added after connection. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Announcing the OpenTTS project, a fork of speech-dispatcher
Hello, Bill Cox, le Mon 19 Apr 2010 09:50:51 -0400, a écrit : Brailcom has always officially supported the work done by Luke Yelavich and others. We linked Luke's git from the official Speech Dispatcher web page and we were trying to promote this work where possible. We also put at least some minimal effort into reviewing how the development continues and plan to make an official release Couldn't brailcom just share the responsibility of releases with Luke co? I believe forking was for a big part needed to actually commit and release new versions. Projects that I have seen forked were usually like that: the maintainers not having the time to develop and release new versions, and not having other people do it either. It'd be really better if we could avoid any fork, as that would save a lot of packaging / naming headache. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: speakup integration?
Jacob Schmude, le Tue 13 Apr 2010 02:13:02 -0400, a écrit : Are there any plans to have Speakup on the text-based installer disks in the future so as to facilitate the installation of Ubuntu Server, for example? Just to mention that Debian has speakup on its installer disks since Etch (along the graphical installer for space reason). So the code exists, just pick it up. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Lucid update broke accessibility
Bill Cox, le Thu 04 Mar 2010 10:03:27 -0500, a écrit : Anyone have any ideas what's going on? Shall I file a bug report on bugs.launchpad.net? Unless somebody speaks within a day, report a bug. Better report bugs several times and they will be merged, than risk not reporting the bug at all. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: OCR made easy on ubuntu 9.04
Hello, sathyan, le Tue 02 Mar 2010 16:32:39 -0500, a écrit : Now a visually impaired person can enjoy reading the printed books using free software, cuneiform is a wonderful ocr engine Sorry to moderate a bit, but according to Debian, cuneiform is not free, because the source for the .dat files is unknown, see http://bugs.debian.org/496264 Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Accessibility and handicap topic of LSM 2010
The Libre Software Meeting (LSM or RMLL in French for Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) is conferences cycle about Free Softawre. LSM is an annual event born in 2000 and since 2003, it occurs in a different town each year. LSM are free as in beer and as a speech :-) No fees, no places limit. So far, among the various topics (culture, social and solidarity economy, …) an accessibility and handicap topic used to take place. This year, in addition to being a dedicated topic, the Accessibility and Handicap topic is a transverse topic. It will thus not only be composed of conferences in its own session (itself composed of several approaches), but also participation to the other topics. http://2010.rmll.info/Accessibility-and-handicap-topic.html Now we just need to fill it! You can not only propose to expose something among the ideas already proposed or not, or just give a talk idea, or just a speaker idea, by simply replying to accessibil...@listes2010.rmll.info Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Public workstations
Storm Dragon, le Thu 11 Feb 2010 11:42:21 -0500, a écrit : Accessible distros are great in some ways, they solve a lot of problems for people, especially newbies who want and expect things to just work. The problem I have with them, is that when Linux gains enough popularity that it is installed on public computers, like at the library say, it's probably not going to be the accessible distro. I do agree with your point. I'd like to note however that I'm not sure windows is much better at this, so getting mainline distros accessible would even make Linux a better choice at least for that reason :) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: ORCA, SSH and XWindows
Loren Schoof, le Sun 11 Oct 2009 13:24:37 -0700, a écrit : When I connect to a Linux machine using PUTTY, JAWS does not handle the windowed environment from the Linux machine. Mmm, are you using just an ssh connexion? In that case there is no windowed environment to be read. Are you using an X server on your windows box and using X forwarding? In that case it's just that JAWS isn't able to read Linux application, which is normal. So my question is: if I convert my PC to Linux with ORCA and connect to the SAS server via SSH or RLOGIN, will ORCA be able to work with the SAS windows? I guess you here really mean X forwarding over ssh.j Orca will not be able to read it unless you run it directly on the server. However, I'm wondering: in the windows case, you install a SAS software in order to access the central server, right? Isn't there the same kind of similar software for Linux that you run on your own machine? In any case, to be accessible, the SAS windowed system needs to be implemented using gtk. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: SAPI
Angelo D. Marra, le Tue 14 Jul 2009 02:08:17 +0200, a écrit : I've been googoling without clear results: Can we have sapi 5 on ubuntu? There has been plans to implement sapi in wine, I don't know how well it is going, but I'm pretty sure it's not available yet. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: espeakup in Jaunty
Storm Dragon, le Fri 10 Apr 2009 08:00:25 -0400, a écrit : I have installed speakup, and everything went as expected until I tried to compile espeakup. I kept getting errors about functions being implicitly defined. Does anyone know what changed to cause this to happen, and beter yet, how to fix it? How do you get espeakup? There used to be such warnings, but they were only warnings. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: espeakup in Jaunty
Storm Dragon, le Fri 10 Apr 2009 08:41:17 -0400, a écrit : Is there a way to make it compile even though it has errors? Ah, so they are really errors on your system? Show them to us. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: espeakup in Jaunty
Storm Dragon, le Fri 10 Apr 2009 09:13:36 -0400, a écrit : stormdra...@stormdragon-laptop:~/speakup/contrib/espeakup-0.60$ make cc -c -Wall -o espeakup.o espeakup.c In file included from espeakup.c:27: espeakup.h:26:30: error: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory That's the issue. You need to install the package that ships it, namely libespeak-dev Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Laptop screens
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 13:45:14 +1100, a écrit : Does this mean that if _you_ did xrandr -x, your display would be like the enclosed? I _did_ it before sending my mail, to check that it was xrandr -x and not xrandr -y, yes. (and actually had a hard time typing xrandr -o normal to get back to normal :) ) I guess boot up, setup,install would be excluded? - Text mode would be more kernel work. - X-based install is a matter of integrating the call to that command. - IIRC FB has a mirror option too. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Laptop screens
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 15:08:48 +1100, a écrit : Of course, my preference would be for a display card/adapter to do the work so the whole computer was permanently like that? Is there a hardware way? It is possible, yes. Probably easier with DVI ports than with VGA ports. I guess that may already exists as there is probably already some needs in other contexts (street screens rendered indirectly or such). I have not idea where to look for it, however. As a side note, I'm very curious about the disability itself: do people who need this fix actually read reversed? I really wonder how that can be. I can understand that one could better understand a reverted mouse, but reverted reading quite astonishes me. Would you have links explaining this a bit more? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Laptop screens
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 06:50:12 +1100, a écrit : Does anybody know of any laptop (suitable for linux) that allows the user to display the screen in mirror image? What do you mean by mirror image? xrandr -x ? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Laptop screens
David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 12:29:34 +1100, a écrit : On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 01:42 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: David Ryder, le Thu 12 Mar 2009 06:50:12 +1100, a écrit : Does anybody know of any laptop (suitable for linux) that allows the user to display the screen in mirror image? What do you mean by mirror image? xrandr -x ? Hold a mirror up to the screen and look at it in the mirror. What you will see is called mirror image. Ok, so just run xrandr -x Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Vibuntu the most accessible Ubuntu Linux live cd for theVisually Impaired EVA III
luke Davis, le Mon 15 Dec 2008 01:44:35 -0500, a écrit : Ubuntu may even recognize the value in adding at least a beeping bootloader, and a less tricky installation process for disabled users. Again, please do not take things wrong. Ubuntu does _not_ have any opinion of what accessibility features should be enabled. The problem is not of willness, but of manpower. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/+bug/180561 for instance, which I filed some time ago about the precise feature you are asking for. Luke didn't say he doesn't recognize the value. He says he depends on somebody fixing sound support in gfxboot. That would go a long way to eliminating the need for this project, I think, and is probably the way I would rather see things go. I definitely see it this way, yes. Instead of duplicating the work of mastering a CD, it'd be better to just fix Ubuntu itself. Yes, that means talking with developers to get things included, but once it's there, it's for good (if you provide a way to test it). But so what? Are we not all about offering alternatives and choices? Too many choices can be a bad thing. The problem is sustainability of the alternative. Put this CD in, boot it up, and follow the spoken or brailled or magnified instructions, is not usually the response given to such questions. When you have a USB braille device, it is now in Debian. Because I took the time to have things for it integrated upstream. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Speech-dispatcher as a service?
David Picón Álvarez, le Thu 04 Dec 2008 16:21:59 +0100, a écrit : Even better would be if Ubuntu came like that already, but that's probably harder to manage. Why? Yes, working with people is difficult, but keeping a parallel distribution is a lot of long-term work. See what happened in Debian: I pushed the support for braille devices, and added a wiki page describing how to check that it still works. The result is that a few debian-installer people actually do test it themselves, so I don't need to do _any_ work any more on that regard and I could push the support for speakup, for which I added a wiki page, etc. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: ubuntu 8.10 textinstaller and braille
Simon Bienlein, le Tue 18 Nov 2008 19:52:58 +0100, a écrit : After the installation, BrlTTY is not automatically started as in the file /etc/default/brltty the parameter RUN_BRLTTY is set on no. Can this problem be fixed by developers or do I have to register with launchpad to submit a bug? It'd probably be better to do the latter. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: I have a question about file browsers
mike, le Fri 07 Nov 2008 16:55:45 -0600, a écrit : Hi, in the dos days there was a nice little program called sdir. It was a file browser that once ran let you use the arrow keys to look at different files. If I remember correctly, sdir even let you change to different drives. Does anyone know if there are any file browsers like this for Linux? Midnight Commander (mc) for instance? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: New developer
Hello, Tom Lloyd, le Mon 27 Oct 2008 16:23:43 -0700, a écrit : As a side project I am intergrating SAPI into Ubuntu to gives access to the MS speech engines using speech dispatcher. That is really great news! Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: why Your development team disabled automatic braille display detection and support during booting from A Ubuntu live CD?
Hello, Luke Yelavich, le Mon 25 Aug 2008 11:18:59 +1000, a écrit : Unfortunately I do not have a USB Braille display, so cannot test and check detection myself. Qemu now (svn version) has a -curses option to work in text mode, and a -usbdevice braille option to emulate a USB baum device. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Braille display
Jan Mura, le Tue 29 Jul 2008 05:32:46 +0200, a écrit : It doesn't work with Orca still write down that there is a startup problem. Actually it's not orca that displays it, but brltty. You can press a braille key to acknowledge the error, and see the /var/log/daemon.log to get the full error. The second thing is if I push ALT+CTRL+Fx am I in console? Yes. Should I install some reader for console? It is already installed, that's brltty. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: liblouisxmml
[EMAIL PROTECTED], le Thu 15 May 2008 14:44:41 -0400, a écrit : gcc -c -Wall -fPIC -O2 transcriber.c -I/usr/include/libxml2 In file included from transcriber.c:35: louisxml.h:34:27: error: libxml/parser.h: No such file or directory apt-file search libxml/parser.h libxml2-dev: /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
qemu, Ubuntu CDs, and braille
Hello, svn's version of qemu (as well as the debian qemu package starting from version 0.9.1-4) has support for virtual braille devices. That means that people without braille device can still check the support by installing brltty and then running: brltty -b xw -A auth=user,host=:1 BRLAPI_HOST=:1 qemu -usbdevice braille -cdrom ubuntu.iso which will display a fake braille device, on which will appear the output of the virtual USB device emulated by qemu. That will probably be helpful to get (sighted) ubuntu core developers test e.g. automatic brltty+orca installation/launch upon detection of braille device, so please spread the word ;) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: libspi-1.0
Donald Raikes, le Mon 14 Apr 2008 19:35:05 -0700, a écrit : I am trying to compile a package from a tarball, but it keeps saying that it requires libspi-1.0 or later. libspi is in libatspi1.0-0 # apt-get install apt-file # apt-file update # apt-file search libspi ;) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu for visually impaired
Jan Mura, le Fri 07 Mar 2008 15:59:33 +0100, a écrit : just would like to ask if this list is for blind persons specific problem? That's the main topic yes (though other kinds of accessibility issues are completely on-topic of course). Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: [orca-list] BrlTTY package testing.
Sérgio Neves, le Fri 29 Feb 2008 14:39:47 -, a écrit : Is it recommended to remove the old brltty with sudo apt-get --purge remove brltty or this new brltty replaces completely the other? It should nicely replace the old one. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu with german speech
Hi, Lutenitsa, le Sat 12 May 2007 11:18:43 +0200, a écrit : Bytheway, are there some hints to setup urca or to configure brllty to work with the console? Does orca recognize a braille terminal that is conected via usb or do I have to make some configurations in .conf files. A USB device should just work fine without any configuration: just plug it in and brltty should get started automatically, recognize it and provide console access. And then you can start orca which will use it automatically for displaying braille. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: SSHD on Ubuntu
Hi, Christian, le Thu 03 May 2007 19:07:14 +0200, a écrit : I need to have SSHD isntalled onto my Ubuntu 7.04 but i cannot seem to find it wiht apt-cache. any thoughts? It's probably rather called openssh Note: for such not accessibility-related question, you should rather ask on more generic lists. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: this may be useful to read man pages
Hi, mike coulombe, le Sat 21 Apr 2007 16:26:22 -0500, a écrit : Hi, I found a program by accident and thought I would share it with you. I typed info in the terminal and was told info was not installed. After installing it with aptitude I found it reads man pages. It's not really meant to read man pages originally. It's used for reading texinfo pages. Try info gcc For instance. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: accessibility of windows applications running under wine
Lubos Pintes, le Tue 10 Apr 2007 20:15:31 +0200, a écrit : Just curious: Can Orca read applications running under wine? Not yet, because wine wasn't ported to using atk. But this should be relatively easily feasible, it's just that someone has to actually do it. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Braille support testing
Hi, Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Wed 31 Jan 2007 12:02:34 +0100, a écrit : After Herd 3 is out (this week) we want to switch back on general USB detection and deploy a script to assist with the configuration of serial displays. We would appreciate help with testing from anyone with a braille device, and esp. serial ones. For testing over serial cable, you could just use the TTY driver (tt), that lets you use another box with minicom. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture
Luke Yelavich, le Sun 21 Jan 2007 22:58:57 +1100, a écrit : Is the byte order different from i386? I think it is, but I couldn't be sure of that. It is different indeed: ppc is big endian. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca on laptops.
Bill Haneman, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 13:24:53 +, a écrit : Luke Yelavich wrote: ... In Windows, Jaws manages to prevent the capslock key from being latched or unlatched. To latch/unlatch, you press shift + Capslock, or press capslock twice quickly. I see. I expect that would be a hazardous and/or fragile thing to attempt on X, especially if, as I believe, the latching behavior is a hardware feature on some (most?) keyboards. It was on some old keyboard, but with PC keyboard it is just a regular key. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca on laptops.
On my french keyboard, Mod2 is Numlock, Mod4 is Windows and Mod5 is AltGr. I didn't manage to hit Mod3. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca on laptops.
Luke Yelavich, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 06:21:58 +1100, a écrit : So what modifier key would you like to use for Orca? Couldn't this be just configurable? Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca on laptops.
Bill Haneman, le Tue 07 Nov 2006 20:15:53 +, a écrit :
AltGr is one that often gets forgotten; what about that? It does appear
to be a modifier key on all the systems I am aware of.
Yes, but it's widely used for typing ~, #, {, [, |, `, \, ^, @, ], },
€, «, », œ, æ, ß, ...
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Re: Orca on laptops.
Bill Haneman, le Tue 07 Nov 2006 20:35:47 +, a écrit :
Yes, but it's widely used for typing ~, #, {, [, |, `, \, ^, @, ], },
€, «, », œ, æ, ß, ...
Agreed, but doesn't orca use arrow keys for many of its functions?
I use altgr-arrows for producing ←→↑↓ :)
I know there are lots of keys which AltGr doesn't appear to do
anything with.
On an american qwerty keyboard maybe, but even latin languages need a
bunch of algr keys.
Samuel
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Re: Orca on laptops.
Luke Yelavich, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 07:43:42 +1100, a écrit : On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:35:47AM EST, Bill Haneman wrote: Agreed, but doesn't orca use arrow keys for many of its functions? I know there are lots of keys which AltGr doesn't appear to do anything with. I have never heard of AltGr. What key is this? It is also known as right alt: that's the key just on the right side of the space bar. It is used for expending what can be typed on a keyboard. Mandatory for many (all?) non-english languages. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: BRLTTY ignores option for attributes table
Hi, Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Wed 18 Oct 2006 15:48:49 +0200, a écrit : Simon Bienlein wrote: I tested BRLTTY and Orca with the ubuntu cd of October 8. After the jingle, I pressed strg+alt+F1 and entered the following command: sudo brltty -a text.de -b ht -d ttyS0 The German attributes table was not loaded. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? I'm not very familiar with brltty, but it seems like -a wants the full path to the attributes table. Simon, are you sure you're talking about the attribute table (-a), and not about the text table (-t)? What I guess you want is brltty -t de -a attributes.tbl Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)
Krister Ekstrom, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 14:13:09 +0200, a écrit : But once learned, this is a very efficient approach. Yes, it means learning. Well, yes, bare unix will probably be for programmers for long. Yes and it's sad because unix/Linux is a powerful system but unless it doesn't get user friendlier, which it works on, it's gonna be kinda hard to convinse windows folks to leave Windows... I'm talking about unix, not gnome. You can very well be a windows folk using a GNU/Linux system through gnome, you won't need to have the unixish way of thinking. Where can you obtain this? I checked but Ubuntu didn't have it. On another not, would it be at all possible for Brltty to have some kind of option to track other cursors than the standard system cursor, for example the soft cursor found in MC? The problem with soft cursor is precisely that it is soft: only MC knows about it. The correction is quite simple: just have MC route the hard cursor just like the soft one. That's precisely what AMC does. In general, if a text application behaves like MC, just send an email to the author, it will probably not be very hard to fix that. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Software: MIDI Seqs, Graphical Devel Tools
Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 17:23:19 +0300, a écrit : Any tools you could recommend for writing C-apps and editing Gnome GUis? For editing Gnome GUIs, glade should be accessible. Is it text based or graphical, by the way. It is not that big a difference in this case. I'm wearing my progremmer hat and thus am willing to edit make files, resource scripts and such. Of course, I've been spoiled by Visual Studio so graphical debugging would rock, too. Since it is for graphical interfaces, glade is graphical. Mmm, that said, since it involves putting buttons on windows, it might not be so accessible. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Software: MIDI Seqs, Graphical Devel Tools
Jan Claeys, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 20:17:48 +0200, a écrit : Op dinsdag 10-10-2006 om 16:26 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Samuel Thibault: Since it is for graphical interfaces, glade is graphical. Glade-the-application is graphical, but .glade files are just XML of course. I'm not sure what's easiest to edit for someone who's blind? As usual with XML, .glade files are more storage files than editable files :) -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background)
Hi, Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 09:09:08 +0300, a écrit : LS output is very speech unfriendly, What do you mean? Because it speaks all file names? silence on success feels disconcerting, Isn't the prompt spoken ? having to specify that you want a confirmation appears to negate its whole point and even the switches are all wrong by default. Yes. That's because when you use commands in a shell script, you don't want to have all confirmations printed by default. If you really want a confirmation, you can use another shell than bash (bash is quite limited), and tinker with your $PS1 variable (the command prompt) and the $? variable (the return code, which is 0 in case of success). Speaking the users language wouldn't be bad either. e.g: cp: cannot stat `foo': No such file or directory Hmm and what do we gain by knowing that a stat system call is used? All the user cares about is that the source file could not be found. Well, here that's a concern not really related to accessibility. The problem is that programmers are programmers. But you can report this problem to the package that provides cp, coreutils. So are there bash configs and or other scripts for making the environment more DOS-like in a good way. For some issues yes, for others no. That is more hand holding, What do you mean ? confirmation prompts, This you can do it, by having the shell look at the $? variable when returning to prompt, and say OK when it is 0. verbose command output For this it's generally the -v option: cp -v foo bar for instance. You can put alias cp='cp -v' in your .bashrc for this. The problem is that it's quite talkative. Do you really want to hear all files that are being transfered? (That's why it's not enabled by default). and a general attitude of not assuming you are a programmer and know what you are doing. As I said, that's quite another problem. Linux was first programmed for programmers, and the difficulty is now to change this. Just submit bugs to the appropriate packages, and this will be corrected. I have to dabble as root a little, and that's scary when I don't know exactly how the shell will deal with wild cards or quoting, for example. You can echo *.foo* before doing rm *.foo* for checking the wild card expansion. assuming the current directory is in the path This poses security problem: if the current directory contains an ls script, then you won't be able to read the directory. Or worse, the script may actually perform ls, but also mail /etc/passwd [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc... So I would really _not_ recommand having this behavior and really always use ./foo instead of just foo. [I] seem to have an immense dislike for most non-interactive Unix command-line apps and shells. Maybe this is just culture shock and initial change resistance. Unfortunately, that's the Unix way of thinking... So yes I'd say it is just a shock. in particular, SunOS 5 and TCSH as used in our Uni machine is just plain terrible. e.g: grep: illegal option -- help Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . . Really helpful. Compare to findstr /? which gives you much more info including what the command actually does. Indeed. The thing is: unix was initially written for programmers. Microsoft writes software for general public. No wonder why the achievment is not the same. But you can have GNU's coreutils behave friendlier: just report a wishlist to the appropriate packages, and it will be corrected. Note however: don't say printing `cannot stat foo' sucks !, which is rude to the programmer who wrote the program. Instead, say could it print `cannot find file foo' please?. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Available text-to-speech software for linux
Hi, LarsWiki probably has a list http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Available text-to-speech software for linux
Jonathan Duddington, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 13:07:02 +0100, a écrit : The LarsWiki list is incomplete. There's also eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Then please notify LarsWiki people. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: BrlTTY / orca
Hi, Veli-Pekka Tätilä, le Wed 04 Oct 2006 16:45:18 +0300, a écrit : I'm natively running Windows XP and Dolphin Supernova 7, which is a combined screen reader and magnifier. WIthin WIndows I have a pair of virtual serial ports com 1 and com 2 that are connected like a null-modem cable. Additionally, I'm running VmWare Server 1.01 which runs Ubuntu Dapper as a guest OS. There's a serial port in that Linux virtual machine which is connected to the host machine's com2 port. The last component of the puzzle is the terminal emulator TeraTerm which monitors the com 1 port, that being the other end of the virtual null modem cable. Ah, ok. I can understand this much better now :) VmWare server also supports USB devices and if my WIndows reader is not using it, the LINux virtual machine can see my Braille display (Tieman Voyager). What I'd like to do would be to get brlTTY working Doesn't this already work? I mean, if you cut down your windows reader, BrlTTY should be able to grab the device, and give you a reading of the console, and once orca/gnopernicus run, get their reading of the gnome session. I've already got Gnopernicus speaking but it says it cannot find the braillle display. As gnopernicus probably said, the checklist is - /etc/brlapi.key exists and is not empty. - you have read right on /etc/brlapi.key - brltty is running with API enabled. Another possibility would be to run brltty natively inside windows, and have gnopernicus connect to it through network. A bit tricky, but not that much (you just need to set the BRLAPI_HOSTNAME environment variable to host:0 where you replace host by the name of your windows machine, or its IP). Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: braille displays/notetakers and ubuntu
Hi, MICHAEL WEAVER, le Sun 24 Sep 2006 20:03:12 +0100, a écrit : Could anyone give me any suggestions as to displays/notetakers that will work with Ubuntu? See http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/ (when it is available again) for a list of supported hardware. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Edgy Eft installable with Braille display?
Hi, Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Fri 15 Sep 2006 10:12:53 +0100, a écrit : Honestly we have not put as much effort into Braille display support for Dapper and Edgy as we perhaps should have. Partly because we've not had good access to braille displays. You don't really need a braille device. You can use minicom via a serial cable, and BRLTTY's tt driver. (That's how I debugged debian-installer) Don't hesitate to ask me anything about how I implemented it in debian-installer. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
[Bug 58718] Re: [Bug 58718] brltty must be started with sudo
Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Sun 03 Sep 2006 14:21:10 -, a écrit : Permissions in Ubuntu seem to be prganised such that brltty (the braille system) must always be started as root (sudo). Please consider adding a device type that normal users can have the appropriate permissions for to fix this. $ brltty brltty: BRLTTY 3.7.2 brltty: Linux Screen Driver brltty: Cannot open screen device: /dev/vcsa: Permission denied brltty: cannot read screen. Mmm, being able to read the console is quite dangerous: via an ssh account, it's just spying. And being able to insert keypresses on the console is even more dangerous. I'd suggest to rather add a brl group that would have such permissions (so as to limit people who have such powerful permissions). Samuel -- brltty must be started with sudo https://launchpad.net/bugs/58718 -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty on ubuntu cd
Hi, Cheryl Homiak, le Wed 23 Aug 2006 12:09:11 -0500, a écrit : Wasn't sure on which list this was most appropriate, so hope nobody will mind my posting here. There is an ubuntu-accessibility lists, so I'm forwarding this. My question is: is there a way at boot to specify the braille-driver on the ubuntu cd? If one cuses f5 and the blindness choice for accessibility, brltty will, if I understand correctly, be looking for the braille display as a usb device. If one has a serial or usbserial device, one needs to be able to specify this device instead. It wasn't clear to me whether, before hitting the final enter for ubuntu to start booting, there was provision for entering the brltty driver information. Please Ubuntu guys answer this ;) Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: d-i accessibility for Edgy (was, Re: [Bug 13457] Re: Keyboard rate is not long enough for users withdisabilities)
Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Tue 23 May 2006 16:37:27 +0100, a écrit : I wonder if d-i would work with Speakup as well? Speakup is included in the access floppies. I haven't done it yet, but I consider asking for inclusion of the speakup-enabled kernel in usual CDs. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: a11y Dapper TODO list!
Hi, * We need to decide which brltty packages are needed in main, currently brltty is seeded to be there, but brltty-flite, brltty-x11 are not (they are only Suggests: but not Depends:) - do we need to seed some of these to make stuff work? brltty-x11 includes the AtSpi screen reader, that can be very useful for reading gnome-terminals with brltty. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: [Bug 39332] Re: brltty needs to install non-interactively
Henrik Nilsen Omma, le Thu 13 Apr 2006 08:52:16 -, a écrit : Yes I agree that it should be configured so that it is inactive for most people. It can be left in autodetect mode. Whenever a USB braille device is plugged-in, it wakes up. Regards, Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Testing plan
Hi, Just to let people know about the Accessibility Application Development HOWTO at TLDP: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Accessibility-Dev-HOWTO/ I guess such documentations should get merged somehow, and hosted at a common place, such as a11y.org Regards, Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
