Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi Sun folks other listers. Bill Haneman : Samuel Thibault wrote: ... They say open source is not accessible, which is wrong, but what is true is open source is not yet really accessible. I do not agree with this assessment. [snip] Hey Bill. Just for an experience, please do the

Re: gnopernicus speech

2005-09-30 Thread remus draica
The problem is fstival itself is some situations (it refuses to work as server in some situations present in some distributions). See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2005-February/msg00017.html Let me know if festival works for you after these modifications. Regards,

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Bill Haneman
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:27, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: Hi Sun folks other listers. Hi Sebastien and all: Bill Haneman : Samuel Thibault wrote: ... They say open source is not accessible, which is wrong, but what is true is open source is not yet really

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi Bill, Congratulations ! You did it ! And it's nearly as well written as what you would produce with eyes opened, I guess. My guess is that Gnopernicus' support for speech is much, much better than what it is for braille, cause I could certainly not do what you did in braille, I think. My

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
hank smith, le Thu 29 Sep 2005 11:25:15 -0700, a écrit : what is the second screen reader? orca, I guess. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

left hand mouse

2005-09-30 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Hi I have a laptop toshiba (centrino) with SuSE 9.2 installed and I usually have KDE. Now my son is starting school and is starting to use the computer. He uses the left hand to write so I tryed to change, in KDE, the mouse setting to a left hand mouse but i discovered that the middle button

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Ward
hI, i CAN'T SPEAK FOR BRAILLE SUPPORT, BUT i CAN SSPEAK FOR SPEECH. i HAVE USED GNGNOPERNICUS FOR MONTHS USING FESTIVAL AS MY SOFTWARE TTS TO GO ON LINE USING mOZILLA aPRIL 20005 TO BUY AND SELL ON THE LINE, PAY BILLS, USE EVOLUTION FOR EMAIL, WORK WITH oPENWRITER, AND GEDIT. i USE GAIM FOR aol

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi Thomas, Strange, it seems there is also a case problem in your mail, just like in the one of Bill. Concerning gnome's accessibility through gnopernicus: I can believe very easily that it is possible thanks to a speech synthesis. However, I don't believe gnopernicus' support for braille is

Re: Locktones [was Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired]

2005-09-30 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Bill Haneman on 2005/09/30 at 16:26 +0100] Locktones sounds like a good idea. Perhaps it could be implemented in gnopernicus as what Janina sometimes calls earcons. Yes, I'm sure that's just the kind of thing she's referring to. There's no reason why screenreader audio

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Jason Grieves
Sounds great Bill. Lets just say AIX doens't like to move quickly in terms of updating its packages. AIX doesn't even support X -version :) but its based on X11R6.4 (yeah I know) DAMAGE is not running, is it supported on this version? This is latest AIX for records sake is 5.3D, still

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: Orca attempts to address this problem by using a different voice when speaking uppercase characters/words. The default is to merely raise the pitch of the normal voice, but it is configurable to be any voice from any synthesizer one might want to use. Will Bill Haneman wrote On 09/30/05

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Jason, All: Magnification has come a long way in the past 6 to 12 months. And a serious bug affecting high magnification ratios was fixed only recently (and will be in the next gnome-mag version, for gnome-2.12.1 on Monday). So for good results, you need a recent gnome-mag and a recent

Re: Slackware 10.1 and Gnopernicus

2005-09-30 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. I don't use Slackware myself, I use Debian. However, I recently helped a friend set up Gnopernicus under Slackware. We ran into some important issues. First, festival isn't a Slackware package, so unless you want to use commercial speech, you will need to build it from source. The

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Willie Walker
Agreed. In an earlier implementation of AccessX, we had a ToggleKeys feature that would provide an audible indication when the state of a lockable key changed. I'm sitting behind an archaic system right now, so I cannot test whether we rolled this forward into XKB and/or whether the GNOME

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Jason Grieves
Gnome does have ToggleKeys (DesktopPreferencesKeyboardAccessibilityFilter Keys) Is there documentation Bill for the extensions + magnifier you talked about? If they are enabled, does the magnifier grep for them and use them automatically? Do I need to re-compile? Thanks! Jason G. Mathew

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Dave, Many/most Braille users have their hearing, and so your locktones application, or something like it, makes a lot of sense. But for deaf-blind, or for people who otherwise want an audio-free environment, do you think some sort of dot-pattern keyboard status indicator on the Braille

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Peter Korn on 2005/09/30 at 10:58 -0700] But for deaf-blind, or for people who otherwise want an audio-free environment, do you think some sort of dot-pattern keyboard status indicator on the Braille display would be useful? Though I've heard it is going out of style, many

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:52:21AM EST, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: Hi Thomas, Strange, it seems there is also a case problem in your mail, just like in the one of Bill. Concerning gnome's accessibility through gnopernicus: I can believe very easily that it is possible thanks to a speech

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:54:22AM EST, Bill Haneman wrote: Hi Dave: It's not totally clear what the best solution is. If, for instance, we announced when the CapsLock key changed state, I might not hear the message or it might have gotten interrupted by some other message. If

Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bill, Here is some user feedback from a user using Gnome, and what I would like to see access for in htenear and not to distant future. 1. Support for Mozilla firefox. Firefox has become almost the industry leader in web browsers, and it would be the best choice for the Sun Java and Gnome

gnome and support for the visually impaired

2005-09-30 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
I am a newby to this list and will soon to be a newby to Linux when I install a Linux distro on my new laptop. I agree about support for Gnucash because that is one of the applications I hope to use when I migrate to Linux, Quicken for windows is no longer available in the UK and MS Money has