On 10/11/11 15:11, Hugh Sasse wrote:
OK, added a couple of things. I don't have a CCTV magnifier at home, and
I don't use a web cam, so maybe someone can add something about:
Can present day CCTVs input to computers pretty much as standard?
Can you use Web cams (maybe with photography macro adaptors) as CCTV
magnifiers?
With Image Magick, etc that might be a good use case for Simon.
what is the CCTV for? Is this a security camera of some kind?
OK, so it's a good enough model of visual impairment, until we need something
better. That's a sensible engineering decision. I was concerned that the
experience of RP will be quite different from Macula Degeneration etc.
it probably would be, but I am guessing the options we can provide on
the computer for assistance are pretty much the same, magnification,
speech or audio cues and tweaks to colours and contrasts.
I would like to raise the flag for a deafblind persona, though. In
the UK, for example, there are about 24,000 deafblind people, but
they so often seem to be batted like tennis balls between the
organizations of/for [dD]eaf people and those of/for blind people,
but the solutions offered usually rely on having the other sense
intact. There are widely varying stats for the USA
http://www.aadb.org/FAQ/faq_DeafBlindness.html#count
Thank you,
Hugh
totally agree, but I am not sure what we can do from an Ubuntu desktop
perspective, to use a computer a deafblind person will require a braille
output device (which is supported, but I don't have the hardware or
skill to use it). In theory it would be the same as the blindness
profile, but using braille rather than speech dispatcher. It would be
massively hard to use the desktop that way, but probably not technically
impossible. I am not sure there is much we can do to optimise the
desktop for that persona which would be in any way different to the
blindness profile.
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