Hello, Helen.
This would probably be off-topic for the Orca list, but the
AccessibleFreedom Support list may be a good place to start. Here is the
Info Page for this list:
http://gator1140.hostgator.com/mailman/listinfo/support_accessiblefreedom.org
I hope that this is helpful to you.
On 12/23/2012 11:11 AM, faginbagin wrote:
I would love to know if there's one mailing list that would allow me
to reach the widest audience. I don't know if I'm up to joining ten
different lists.
For what it's worth, last night, Ron Whyte (aka Fudge) set up an IRC
channel, #MythSpeech, on irc.freenode.net. I'm there now and expect to
be whenever I'm online, so maybe that's a good place to direct people
interested in this subject?
Regards,
Helen
On 12/23/2012 03:15 AM, B. Henry wrote:
The problem, with these older releases is that the later orca
releases only run on unity, and I think really only 12.04 and to a
point 11.10 work well enough to be viable. The reason then later orca
versions are needed are so that some QT support is available.
I know nothing about the details of what QT programs work and which
don't. GTK+ is pretty much what Orca worked with until about a year ago.
I'll post your original post as well as these replies to a couple
other lists and perhaps get up more interest.
I'm going to sleep right now, but I'll get off a few e-mails tomorrow.
The Vinux list is an especially good place as there are over 300
blind and low vision subscribers, and while many are mixed OS-users,
others like myself use Linux as their primary or only OS.
Vinux is basically just Ubuntu with some special tweaks, some
settings preconfigured to be more speech and magnifier friendly and
some extra scripts and different software choices again to make
things work as well out of the box for blind and low vision folk.
Then there's a private list for some blind Linux students and another
small googlegroup/mailing list for folks interested in open-source
and accessibility.
Hopefully between these lists and my twitter and facebook contacts I
can find some other interested people.
Thanks again, and I will be in touch.
On 12/22/2012 05:18 PM, faginbagin wrote:
Hi B.H. (an anyone else using an older distribution)
If there's interest, I can see what it would take to get mythspeech
working on 10.04. As it happens, my "production" MythTV environment
consists of machines running 10.04 and 10.10 (for TV tuners that
needed a newer kernel), with MythTV 0.23.
Regards,
Helen
P.S. Time to sign off until tomorrow.
On 12/22/2012 05:13 PM, B. Henry wrote:
does this software have a CLI, or is this only interacted with via
the qt interface?
I am a native English speaker, but speak more Spanish than English
these days, for some years now, so perhaps I could be of some
assistance.
I don't currently have a version of Ubuntu that allows the use of
the latest Orca and thus QT however. This will be changing soon,
but for now I'm using a combination of 10.04 and 11.04 and xdesktop
orca.
Sounds very interesting, and I'll for sure be giving this a try
when possible.
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Regards,
B.H.
On 12/22/2012 03:45 PM, 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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