+1 from me - we definitely need to increase our support and maintenance for mouse-only and switch-only users. Any help in this area would be greatly welcomed.
Will Francesco Fumanti wrote: > Hello Tom, > > > There is another accessibility area that lags behind what is already > available for years on Windows and Macs: a good accessibility tool for > people that can only use the pointer. > > - There is the gnome onscreen keyboard gok, but it is more geared > towards switch users. Several modifications would be necessary to > improve it for pointer only users. Other improvements have been noted on > this page: http://live.gnome.org/Gok > The current maintainer of gok only has very little time to devote to it, > so that only the most urgent problems have been looked after. > > - There is the onscreen keyboard onboard: onboard, which has been mostly > programed in python, is probably the most usable onscreen keyboard > available on GNOME for pointer only users. However, it is still a basic > onscreen keyboard that lacks efficiency features like word prediction > and autoponctuation. Moreover, it does not support switch input yet. I > suppose that not only the accessibility users, but also the tabletpc > users would appropriate having somebody that takes onboard to the next > level. > https://edge.launchpad.net/onboard > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/onBoard > > - Another starting point to build an efficient onscreen keyboard could > be the matchbox-keyboard, but as it is not originally geared towards > GNOME. http://matchbox-project.org/overview.html > > - There is kvkbd for KDE, that I have not really look into yet. > > - There is dasher with its unusual input method that looks more like a > game than an accessibility (this is not intended in a negative way). > dasher is said to have a good word prediction, but it completely lacks > desktop control and the written text goes into a pane in dasher instead > of going into the front window. I don't know whether the word prediction > of dasher can be used in a "classic" onscreen keyboard. > > > As you see, there is also much left to do for pointer only users. It is > not the area that you talked about in your mail, but one can never know; > therefore this reply. > > > Anyway, if you are going to pick up one of these to take it to the next > level, please contact me and I will help with what I can (ideas, > testing, documentation,...). > > > Cheers > > Francesco > > > > Luke Yelavich wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:23:43AM EST, Tom Lloyd wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> >>> >>> Just wanted to say Hi and to get myself known. I have been using >>> Ubuntu for= three or so years. I am a 26 year old developer from >>> the UK trained in Emb= edded / Realtime systems. As a side project >>> I am intergrating SAPI into Ubu= ntu to gives access to the MS >>> speech engines using speech dispatcher. >> This is awesome news, and depending on how far along your work is, >> may be enough of a reason to push for using speech-dispatcher as the >> speech backend for orca in the next Ubuntu release. >> >>> I use compiz for zoon, so i could be intrested in working to >>> improve speech= and magnification under ubuntu, suggestions for >>> projects welcome.=20 >> We certainly need help in improving the state of magnification in >> Ubuntu. It works, but badly. What really needs doing is integrating >> the eZoom compiz plugin with Orca, as well as cleaning up Orca's >> speech-dispatcher support to be of similar quality to its support for >> gnome-speech. I plan to more tightly integrate speech-dispatcher for >> Ubuntu next cycle, due to its more flexible nature compared to >> gnome-speech. >> >> In short, integration is what we lack for accessibility in Ubuntu. >> The tools are there, but they need to be tied to gether in a way that >> makes them work seemlessly with each other, i.e eZoom/gnome-mag and >> orca, speech-dispatcher and orca, etc. >> >> Thanks for your offer of assistance, it would be much appreciated. >> >> Luke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkkGU0wACgkQjVefwtBjIM4H2wCfXQj0ZSV4whOAqyUcPloc5VyW >> Mn8AoK7NxudfeWOk9B/uAnIq8NBJ0p2o =t73s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
