-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [email protected] schreef: > Send Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-accessibility digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Reviving the Accessibility Team - meeting? (Penelope Stowe) > 2. upgrading ubuntu (michael weaver) > 3. Accessibility Meeting (Glen Darby) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:39 -0400 > From: Penelope Stowe <[email protected]> > Subject: Reviving the Accessibility Team - meeting? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hiya, > > I've been looking around on what there is for the Accessibility Team > on the wiki and reading e-mails, along with chatting with Luke on IRC > (in #ubuntu-accessibility) and it strikes me that we need to create a > solid Accessibility Team in the community. Not only will doing so help > future new-users (or existing users who develop a disability), but a > cohesive team means a stronger voice in the Ubuntu community as a > whole. > > I'd like to propose having a meeting sometime the week of April 11-17 > in #ubuntu-accessibility on freenode on IRC to come up with some > foundation for getting the Accessibility Team going. If there are > issues with doing a meeting on IRC not being accessible, feel free to > suggest other places for the meeting. If you're interested in having a > meeting, please send the list or me an e-mail with the days/times that > week you're available and I'll try to find a time that works for the > most people. > > I think in this meeting we should discuss putting together a blueprint > for things we want to and think we can get done during the Lucid+1 > cycle. I also think it might be nice to start to look at a roadmap and > goals for the team in a long term. > > I'm going to send a separate e-mail to the list (not tonight, but > later this week) with some of my ideas for things we could do and I > hope other people will think about it as well so we can get some > discussion going! > > Thanks! > Penelope > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:26:14 +0100 > From: michael weaver <[email protected]> > Subject: upgrading ubuntu > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed > > i think i am going to have to wwait until there is a bit more of > a stable lucid or until final release and just do a fresh install > of ubuntu. > as i don't have the technical knowledge to be able to install > speakup i don't know if an upgrade would be easier via a text > terminal and i have not had any luck creating the file to be able > to get accessible admin as regards the gui and i don't always > have a sighted person around to be able to at least see if an > upgrade is actually working. > i remember once trying to do an upgrade where my local linux > group used to hold meetings which i don't think has happened for > a while because the main people have moved areas to leeds and the > like and it would have taken to long to upgrade anyway but when i > had someone look at what i was doing, they seemmed to think that > the upgrade had not started when i went through the alt plus f2 > update-manager dash d because when i had entered on ok, i seemed > to have to tab to another upgrade button without speech access, > hit enter on it and possibly had to re-type my password. > it is like the interface for update-manager is slightly different > with upgrading from that of updating where if you just do a > standard up-date, you can tab around and get orca feedback to say > that you have updates and when you hit the install and are maybe > asked for the password, away it goes and downloads them whereas > with the upgrade, you see that the upgrade is there if you run > the update-manager from alt f2 with the dash d command at the > end, it shows you the upgrade notes, you hit the upgrade button, > you enter the password and ok it and i think to someone with > sight you have to locate the upgrade button again which someone > without sight can't access because i think a dialogue box pops up > with buttons for check for updates, upgrade, and cancel and you > have to go to the correct button and enter on the upgrade and > possibly re-type admin password, ok and then it starts. > i think that is what confuses people without sight like it is a > double confirmation, when you see the notes about the new release > you can accept and it is like it brings up another dialogue box > after you first ok your password like "are you sure you want to > do this." > i think i only found this out because the chap who was trying to > help me said the upgrade hadn't started even though i had chosen > the upgrade button, entered my password and hit ok. > i think if i knew perhaps the number of tabbs when i have to get > to the upgrade button in the dialogue box where orca doesn't > appear to read i could possibly do it but without a family who > are not linux users and with me not having a sighted partner or > any sighted family member around looking at the pc or laptop > screens for me i am only guessing there is this second dialogue > appears before the actual upgrade is actually started. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:34:11 +0100 > From: Glen Darby <[email protected]> > Subject: Accessibility Meeting > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <1270103651.2237.10.ca...@glen-desktop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi, > I would dearly like to be involved in the meeting if it comes together. > I work with disabled and have been trying to look for a linux type > version of "EZ Keys" which uses a single switch to access the computer. > > I programme a little and pick up quite fast and would be willing to be > involved in the project but would need advice on where to start etc. > > I would be free 11th, 12th, 17th, Between 11-2 on 13th, between 10-3:30 > on 14th, between 9-12:30 on 15th. > > Any reply would be appreciated, even if you say it is not what the > meetings for, just so I know. > > Many thanks. > > Glen Darby. > > Hi,
I would very much encourage this idea of Penelope, and would also be glad to get more involved in reviving the team. kind regards leoquant -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFLtJPsbcC9IXrx7bMRAuxjAJ9dS24PjvqVbl8WQslIb719Ws6WBwCfUe1z /iNAui9kE1MYAS8yL8pfB/c= =6GEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
