Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Mats L
Eric, It's always very good to have a person speaking on behalf of himself or herself as a user representing an actual need. There is a lack of this for people with mobility based access problems in these forums for free software, compared to the areas of low or no vision. Part of the problem is

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Eric Johansson
On 3/21/2018 3:03 PM, Mats L wrote: > Eric, > > It's always very good to have a person speaking on behalf of himself > or herself as a user representing an actual need. There is a lack of > this for people with mobility based access problems in these forums > for free software, compared to the

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Mats L
That goes for switch users too: Dasher may be very efficient for text entry (if you are a relatively fluent reader and can learn to cope with the navigation mode), but you will need an appropriate OSK for editing and for the handling of your system in general. Mats 2018-03-21 9:17 GMT+01:00

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Cesar Mauri
El 20/03/18 a las 10:35, Alex ARNAUD escribió: Are you aware of differences between eviacam and GNOME mousetrap? I didn't try recent versions, thus I cannot answer  What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a head-tracking software? As Thibaut suggested, I think

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 20/03/2018 à 17:33, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : Hello Thibaut, Le 20/03/2018 à 11:14, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : Le 20/03/2018 à 10:35, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a head-tracking software? Dasher comes to mind: I've tested it, looks

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Eric Johansson
On 3/21/2018 11:30 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > Le 21/03/2018 à 15:27, Eric Johansson a écrit : >> On 3/20/2018 5:35 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: >>> >>> What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a >>> head-tracking software? >> I'm frustrated by this kind of question because

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Eric Johansson
On 3/20/2018 5:35 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > > What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a > head-tracking software? I'm frustrated by this kind of question because frequently, this is the wrong question. you should be asking what is the appropriate interface to enable the person

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Le 20/03/2018 à 18:31, Mats L a écrit : Both Onboard and Caribou were intended as replacements of GOK, but are not really. GOK was an ambitious effort to provide tailorable access for individuals with major motor difficulties, including need for single and double switch input. But it was not a

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Mats L
> Is onboard not the continuation of GOK? > > Samuel > Both Onboard and Caribou were intended as replacements of GOK, but are not really. GOK was an ambitious effort to provide tailorable access for individuals with major motor difficulties, including need for single and double switch input. But

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 20/03/2018 à 10:35, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a head-tracking software? Dear Alex, Dasher comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software) Kind regards, Thibaut. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Mats L
Hi Alex and all, I can confirm Cesar's description of the functionality of eViacam as a very objective and accurate one (despite - or thanks to - his direct involvement ;-) I have been doing som content management for OATSoft for several years, but unfortunately the maintenance broke down a

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
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

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
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

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Hello Thibaut, Le 20/03/2018 à 11:14, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : Le 20/03/2018 à 10:35, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a head-tracking software? Dear Alex, Dasher comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software) I've

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-20 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Le 19/03/2018 à 20:46, Cesar Mauri a écrit : * Does head-tracking is really efficient? (Disclaimer: I'm the author of eViacam and EVA Facial Mouse) Are you aware of differences between eviacam and GNOME mousetrap? However, if you mean whether is there a FOSS head tracker solution available

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-19 Thread Cesar Mauri
* Does head-tracking is really efficient? (Disclaimer: I'm the author of eViacam and EVA Facial Mouse) If by efficiency you mean achieving the same throughput than a regular mouse, then the answer is no. I'm not aware about any head tracker solution able reach the same low difficulty level

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-19 Thread Gregg Vanderheiden GPII
have you tried the Unified Listing? http://ul.gpii.net part of http://GPII.net use advanced search (or standard search) and type Linux in the search box. I found 63 hardware and software accessibility products that cite LINUX in their descriptions. Don’t see any eye trackers