Hello,
I am in however I have no one to ask for help while setting it up so I
am afraid I am not going to be usefull for quite sometime.
I am interested in accessible tv solution for linux so no mather what
turns out promising I will start using it.
Greetings
Peter
On 23. 12. 2012 0:36, faginbagin wrote:
On 12/22/2012 05:39 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
Hello,
I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility
support is going to be damn complicated. It is a huge codebase and no
one has ever considered accessibility before.
I would be happy if something like this existed but I think it is not
a project for a few open-source developers developing in their spare
time.
The problem I have is: will it be more complicated, and more kludgy than
trying to extend what I've done by building on MythTV's support for LCD
displays? All of MythTV's user interface objects are subclasses of a
base MythUI class, and there aren't that many subclasses. I think an
approach based on Qt accessibility is doable.
FWIW, I'm retired and I used to be a pretty good developer, so I think I
have the ability and the time to make MythTV accessible to those with no
or poor vision.
Another problem I have, before investing more time and effort, is
whether the mythtv devs would be likely to accept my work into the
mainline source code. For that, I think I need to demonstrate there's a
"market" for talking mythtv. That's why I joined this list. Although
mythspeech is not a complete solution, it is a starting point and I
would love it if I could recruit some more users.
BTW do you know projects such as gnome dvb daemon or tvheadent? These
dont implement user interface and perfecting and / or writing a totem
plugin for these would be avesome as well. Those apps can be setup
without eye sight even now however gnome dvb daemon is somewhat buggy
and not used frequently and tvheadent is stable, has web based
interface. There is excelent fully accessible client for Android for
it. So maybe oneday someone will like to create accessible client app
for linux as well.
No, I am not familiar with those. I am a MythTV user, and a retired
developer, looking for ways to combine my interests and my skills. I'm
not so sure I'm ready to learn about projects that do less (from my
perspective) than MythTV.
Greetings
Peter
On 22. 12. 2012 22:45, faginbagin wrote:
I'd like to announce Mythspeech, which makes it easier for the blind
and/or visually impaired to use MythTV, an open source DVR (digital
video recorder).
Information about MythTV can be found here: http://www.mythtv.org/
It is supported by Ubuntu and there is a Ubuntu based distribution
customized specifically for MythTV, Mythbuntu: http://www.mythbuntu.org/
More details about Mythspeech can be found here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythSpeech
Mythspeech is not a perfect solution, but I'm told by one user:
"Maria is VERY happy with her talking MythTV, and it has made her life
so much easier!"
How imperfect is the current implementation of mythspeech? One glaring
example is that it cannot help with the initial setup and configuration
of MythTV. I think you will need some vision or a friend or family
member who can help with this step.
I would very much like to talk to developers with experience in
accessibility. The current implementation of Mythspeech builds on
MythTV's support for LCD displays and uses speech-dispatcher's API, but
I'm thinking a better long term approach might be to implement Qt's
accessibility classes. MythTV is a Qt application, but it does not use
Qt widgets.
I would also like to know if there are interested users whose first
language is not English. MythTV has been translated into many languages,
and mythspeech should be able to speak in those languages, if they are
supported by speech-dispatcher. But there are some things that could be
improved if there is interest.
Of course, I welcome any and all feedback, bug reports, etc.
Regards,
Helen
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