Joseph,
In addition to getting input from the current users, I think it may be
helpful to think about the impacts of different vision impairments, and
what features may best help folks with those differences. For example,
some people experience a loss of central vision (e.g. macular
.
You can also contribute with Dasher using gnome tools, for example,
there are a dasher component on gnome bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=dasher
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something? Or does
something already exist and I missed the boat on it?
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Bryen,
I suggest photos screen shots - more than just text
bullets on slides. Photos of folks in Extremadura
Andalusia - the public computing labs schools - with folks
actually
),
I'm of the opinion that the overhead cost in abstracting the
different approaches hooks such for the different
platforms is likely not worth the cost - vs. just developing
separate efforts which share ideas.
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FYI - in case any FOSS accessibility users want to share their thoughts
with the FCC as to how to best distribute specialized customer premises
communications equipment (which we might call AT hardware and software
in IT parlance) to people who are deaf-blind in the US. This is part of
a
ences. I guess that
they will not be modified frequently, but I dont have data to support
this affirmation.
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API, Joseph, all,
I have one missing piece: the cost of attending the conference. Since
I would be going as a Speaker, I *think* I would have to register.
Looking over the registration page
(http://www.aegis-conference.eu/pages/register.html), my best guess is
I qualify as a ... researchers,
Gang,
Separate from whether anyone sponsors your conference fee or not, to
take advantage of the GNOME Hackfest price (equivalent to the student
price), please put the word GNOME into the Student ID Number field
on the registration page, at: http://aegis-conference.eu/pages/register.html
ch devices that simulate mouse buttons and keyboard
keys. In the roadmap of Caribou [0] there is a mention to "an official
switch device", which is that device?
Thanks for your help.
David.
[0] http://live.gnome.org/Caribou
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Brief summary of the meeting, feel free to create any individual
thread about the topics. Sorry if I miss something, but as I said,
this is a *brief* summary
Patrick,
It is my hope that part of the GNOME Shell magnification work will
result in something like this. Not as a GTK+ widget, but as an
accessibility layer that things exactly like a scanning keyboard
overlay could live in.
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Accessibility Principal
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On Thu
Hi gang,
I just heard about Easystroke, via the article at
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/enable-mouse-gestures-linux-easystroke/
Seems like it might be a useful app for anyone using a headmouse or eye
tracker (among others).
Regards,
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Accessibility Principal
Oracle
reception is the
evening of the 23rd; we shouldn't do anything opposite that time slot.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Thanks Eitan.
Given that I'm looking at 9 to 14 hours travel time depending on
layovers and the like, I'm planning
under the project - at least to the level of a survey and
recommendations.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This is my proposal for visual audio events as a project for the
upcoming HFOSS Summer Program. We'll call it Visual Audio for now
- which all media players might then
respect and utilize?
What do folks on this list think?
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
We had a good productive meeting last night covering several topics:
1) Discussion of bugs and points
, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, European Platform for
Rehabilitation, ONCE Foundation, and Vastra Gotlands Lans Landsting.
Several of the folks who have engineering tasks have begun hiring, and
we may have news to report there in not too long...
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Peter Korn
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to a
close, and also serves to inaugurate the next 3.5 years!
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Hello,
I wrote a little game[1] that is a brain teaser game. The game has four
puzzles where the user have to remember or identify colors.
I got two mails from people telling me that they had trouble with these
specific games. I do
a COMPOSITING edition of Metacity in third place.
Also, I think from the point of view of user experimentation, we'll find
Compiz a much more productive place to be - as we figure out what video
effects are must valuable to which user needs user scenarios.
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Accessibility
, AccessibleAction, AccessibleValue, etc. interfaces).
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Hi Bryen,
The media formats need to support captioning, and then the players must
be able to play it. RealMedia and QuickTime and WindowsMedia all
support caption encoding (in one fashion or another), and HelixCode will
render them. I don't know about other players.
Regards,
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data
designed for a pedestrian. The public databases for this info (e.g.
Google) are designed for automobiles. But once that piece is addressed,
you should have everything needed to make the N800/N810 a talking GPS
for accessibility use.
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Absolutely!
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Hi Brian,
This is a great idea. My hand is happily up as well.
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The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors recognizes the importance
of Accessibility in the GNOME desktop. To help foster a more
clear and positive vision, the board
Hi Calum, Hans Petter,
This sounds interesting. Any way to see and play with a prototype (and
to get user feedback on it)? I also wonder whether and to what extent
Compiz might play a role here (though perhaps we don't want to make a
dependency on that just yet)...
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Peter
into it?
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was the only one against it in the past :-) starting with the
actual gnome-mag API, since this is the basic that we need, than we
can start to think how these interaction can be done, since they must
be carried on by the WCM.
The needs for the applications cited by Peter Korn can also be addressed
give us.
And note what I said before:
But you are closer to the code than I am.
These are suggestions to the gnome-mag dude, to consider as he charts
the future.
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this layer as well. And perhaps you have the layer at full (magnified)
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jaggy-free.
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Hi,
I would like to create a D-BUS based magnification API, but since some
to the Orca users list that I've
cc-ed. They will be your best resource for answering questions.
Also, I'm curious - why do you feel you need total control of the blind
user experience (vs. giving users flexibility in how they want to
configure their experience)?
Regards,
Peter Korn
Hi Elcio,
Have a look at the at-poke application, which intentionally disables
accessibility on itself to avoid recursion by trying to explore itself.
Why are you wanting to turn accessibility support on/off?
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, then you need to set the appropriate setting in your screen
reader (e.g. Mouse tracking mode to Centered).
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
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Hello,
Is there any setting I can change to make gnome-mag keep cursor focus
in the middle of the magnification
any suggestions you have for what I and Sun can
do to further help bring more developers from a wider spectrum of
organizations into our community.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:01:50PM -0400, David Bolter wrote
users might chime in (excuse the pun) on
this.
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(and the
rest of the gnome accessibility framework) without a GNOME desktop. That
is, unless you are also testing to make sure that those aspects of the
software fail gracefully in the absence of GNOME. But in that case, you
should then already have everything you need!
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Peter Korn
,
etc.).
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
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Hi,
Under Debian, apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome
solved my problem. Thanks Jan.
Is the dependency on java access bridge gone under Windows as well?
Regards, Willem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006
Hi Christian,
Unless you want to upgrade an existing, older Ubuntu (or do some usual
boot configuration or other such things), you don't need the alternate
version. Also, I don't believe Joanie's directions will work with the
alternate version.
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reasons, I'd
like to suggest that day be Monday November 6th (since I'll be on a
plane on the 7th). This isn't to prevent accessibility discussions from
happening other days, but to encourage that many of them happen that day.
Regards,
Peter Korn
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Parente and George Kraft of IBM to describe the finer points of LSR.
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Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
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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
I should get one and challenge the Ubuntu
community to write a driver ...
Or perhaps a Google Summer of Code accessibility project?
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Hi Willie,
I wonder if we might invite some members of the disability community who
are in the Boston area to any of this session. Most specifically the
10-11 demo/overview, and the 11-12 talk on AT gaps for developers end
users. I expect they might also have contributions to make through
://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
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devices, but that continues to be a fairly long way off I think. And we
have a pretty large installed based of devices that look like mice...
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much meaning). But I do want to point out that the converse is likewise
a bit general in the other direction...
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For example, there is a German company that installs KDE-based computers in
schools for people with learning difficulties
Hi Darragh,
Are you familiar with the KDE Accessibility mailing list community?
See [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subscribe at
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility The folks there
would be in the best position to address your question.
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Peter Korn
Accessibility
.
Thanks to Mike Paciello for securing copies of these recordings. Note:
you can also view the video
directly, through the TV Worldwide website (assuming you have a Windows
system to do so...).
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Peter Korn
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is part of the
purview of SoC projects.
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Hi Chris,
I think there are two issues here. Well, three:
1. Can an on-screen keyboard implement sticky modifiers without using
the system support for sticky modifiers?
2. Can
word
completion, and how do we communicate that between the application and
GOK via AT-SPI. Evan, David - any thoughts?
Regards,
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Hi all,
I'm now working on a mozilla a11y bug, about autocompletion. The URL of
the bug is
https
implementation that programmers render.
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Hi guys. Technically I'm on holiday today. I think we could choose an existing
event (or propose a new one) for notification regarding this... and GOK could
create a key representing the current app
Hi Dave,
What screen reader are you using, on what operating system?
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Hi Listers.
I am using a Braille Lite 40. I just received V-TERM in the mail
today. The IT person at my work wants to set up a serial virtual
modem
.
Please see things like ReadWrite Gold from TextHelp, which provide
assistance for folks with dyslexia, and with a variety of other print
disorders. See http://www.texthelp.com/rwg.asp?q1=productsq2=rwg
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
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(sorry for cross
://www.gok.ca for an excellent example of an on-screen
keyboard for Linux.
Regards,
Peter Korn
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
如何在LINUX下实现一个屏幕键盘，原理是什么？举个简单的例子就好，比如我
点击屏幕上的一个按钮，就会向gedit或其他编辑器中输入一个1或A什么
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to put that in your path ahead of the
default installed Java.
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FreeTTS first,
then build gnome-speech (and tell it where to find FreeTTS on your system).
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... Another question for you: what relese of what OS are you using?
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Cody Hurst wrote:
hi pete,
I hope I have the gnome speech installed, or otherwise it will be
hunting for a thousand other dependencies. do versions numbers matter?
can I just pick
.
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P.S. to Henrik Nilsen Omma - you are very welcome to post to the GNOME
accessibility list, even with KDE apps. We're all working to make the
UNIX graphical desktop accessible, and whether we use GNOME apps or KDE
apps
is upstream of your screen reader.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
Hi, Bill,
I did respond in another message with my distro information, but
it doesn't seem to have reached the list. I'm running Debian Sarge on
an eMachines 433mhz PC. The thing
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For more information, please see the UNIX mozilla home page at:
http://www.mozilla.org/access/unix/
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Sun Accessibility team
Bill Haneman wrote:
Hi Jason.
I'm asking around about what
CD. When it is ready I'll
send out an announcement on this alias.
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Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
Is there a problem with Festival?
I ask because I tried to run the accessable version of the live CD for
Ubuntu and although my mother who was down at my flat
download an eval from the
http://deskzilla.com/download.html page.
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display would be useful?
Though I've heard it is going out of style, many Braille displays dedicated
several cells a the far right edge for status indication. We already have a
GNOME Keyboard Accessibility status applet GUI. Would a Braille equivalent of
that be interesting?
Regards,
Peter
Hi Petra,
My understanding from a conversation earlier this week is that BAUM is have
problems with their ISP at the moment. The URL is correct.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accesibility team
Petra Ritter wrote:
Hello,
Is http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html still down?
I am not sure whether
On-Screen Keyboard provides significantly greater efficiency and productivity
for a vast number of office tasks as compared to anything on Microsoft Windows.
Regards,
Peter Korn
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P.S. I wonder if affected individuals and disability organizations are
lobbying Microsoft
PINGed the folks once about this.
I promised to post a note here when I know that this is fixed!
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Hi Bertil,
Is that the version that is included in Fedora Core 4?
I don't believe so, but I'm afraid I'm not a Fedora expert... However, the
URL I pointed to below *is* built for Fedora (3), so you should be able to use
it on Fedora Core 4...
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
that the April release will be
the last one in the 1.7 line.
Note: source is included, as well as a Fedora Core 3 RPM.
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, or a different (e.g. larger) font size. But that's
not accessibility to them.
So while I think it would be very useful to have a central place to go to do
all of these configurations, many of them also belong more or less where they are.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
David Bolter
that are likewise not implementing the accessibility
interfaces.
We expect that over time most of the interesting applications will implement
the accessibility interfaces (and quite a few do so already), but we aren't
all the way there yet.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
a fix late last week) now
aggressively restart speech if it ever dies.
Perhaps this is at least some of the problems you are encountering? If so,
you might try the latest code...
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Jude,
I can tell you that your problem
Hi Milan,
Can you please try to reproduce this with the Sun accessible branch of Mozilla
1.7 (see
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/sun-mozilla-1.7/01-31-2005/
for this)? Not all of our accessibility changes are in Firefox 1.0.x. More
(but still not yet all) are in
.
This is very strange, as CTRL-ESCAPE brings up the 'main menu' for the
GNOME desktop.
Was that change made GNOME-wide? Sun has made that change for JDS (to mirror
Windows), but I thought the default for GNOME in general was still Alt-F10.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
://www.java.net/download/jdk6/binaries/ I've got
the Linux JDK runnnig on my system now. Seems a bit faster, and a JMenuBar
accessibility bug that crept into JDK 1.5 is now fixed (and in the process of
being back-ported to a JDK 1.5.0_0x release).
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
Don Raikes
window)...
Regards,
Peter
Peter Korn said:
Hi Don,
The error message suggests that something is wrong with your symlink or
with
the build of gnome-java-bridge.jar (that's what we usually call it, not
gnome-access-bridge.jar).
By the way, Sun just made available a JDK 6.0 Binary snapshot (and source
too
it to be
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
Don Raikes wrote:
Hello,
I have seen several posts about this topic, but have found nothing which
solves my problem.
I have fc3 installed kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3spksmp.
When I first installed it, gnopernicus and festival talked just fine
together.
Now after
cursor routing keys should come into Gnopernicus
this way. Perhaps this is a bug in the BrlTTY Gnopernicus driver?
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Hi Dave,
Whoops! Thanks, I totally missed that. My mistake. Remus' comments are the
ones to follow - use the Braille Mapping/Position Sensors page-tab to map the
cursor routing/touch cursors keys to functions and work from there.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
Dave Mielke wrote
to visit
us at our booth (#419 #420 in the Houston room of the Marriott Hotel), and
see the latest in Java technology accessibility and access to Java
applications from the Microsoft Windows desktop.
On behalf of Sun Microsystems,
Peter Korn
Sun Microsystems Accessibility team
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is in Solaris
10.
Ken - I'm delighted to hear about what will be going into Fedora Core 4.
The more (accessible UNIX or GNU/Linux systems) the merrier!
Regards,
Peter Korn
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Kenny Hitt wrote:
Hi. I already run Debian unstable with some packages built from source.
At the risk
, such as the
Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier, which will do a very nice job of driving
gnome-mag.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
Dragan Sarbut wrote:
Hello,
If you chose to work with gnome-mag, you should try using gnopernicus.
Gnopernicus is a client for gnome-mag and allows you
to go to, hold the
shift key, and press the cursor routing key on the letter you want to end your
selection.
This isn't the solution that is recommended (still somewhat closer to a hack
I'd say), but it may be helpful immediately.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team
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