hello henrik it is nice that you wwrote something. i ti have small question
do you can do something to have polish language synthesizers build in ubuntu
accessible. i know that there some voices for festival can you find them and
compile because im reading a lot of polish teksts and it is very difficult
to understand it with english synthesizer. i can understand english teksts
read by polish because it is simplier to learn.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: [Oralux] Greetings from Ubuntu!
Hello,
I'm the coordinator for the Ubuntu Accessibility Team. I would first just
like to say hello and establish a connection between our two teams which
have very similar aims.
I just took oralux 0.7 for a test spin and it seemed to work well with my
hardware out of the box. I like the way it asks you questions during the
boot process. Is that using speakup?
In Ubuntu we are just now starting to get some reasonable assistive
technology support on our Live CD. If you want to give it a try you can
download a copy here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
This is our development version, which now has built-in support for
gnopernicus with gnome-mag and festival. In addition it supports
high-contrast themes, stickykeys/mousekeys and the GOK on-screen keyboard.
Booting instructions for using the assistive technology features can be
found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/doc/StartGuide (note:
this is the bog-standard Ubuntu distribution CD so it will only start up
in accessible modes by pressing some keys at boot time).
I read with interest a comment about Oralux 2.0 earlier on this list and
its aim to be useable by non-technical users. That is of course the main
aim of the Ubuntu project as well, and I would say that we are gradually
getting there.
In a sense we are approaching it from the opposite end compared with what
you are doing. While you are currently focusing on including the best
possible assistive technologies, we are working on a polished end-user GUI
distro with a basic (but growing) level of accessibility support. As a
general-purpose distro, it needs to be suitable for a wide range of users
out of the box. We therefore spend a great deal of effort making sure that
the accessibility features do not affect the general simplicity and
usability of the system.
So I just wanted to open up some communications, and ask us each to
consider some aspects of this we might be able to collaborate on in the
future. We are also currently working closely with the Orca team,
providing testing and feedback, and will hopefully start work on a new
XGL-based magnifier soon.
Best wishes,
Henrik
Ubuntu Accessibility Team coordinator
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