TransferSummit open innovation in accessibility talks
I'm very pleased to say that following accessibility related talks compliment those on open development, mobile, business and community at TransferSummit this year. There's still time to register Building accessibility through large ecosystem innovation Marco Zehe Accessibilty QA Mozilla http://transfersummit.com/programme/1359 Openness in a Niche Neil Williams TobyChurchill http://transfersummit.com/programme/1351 Providing mobile accessibility through collaboration Julian Harty Tester At Large eBay http://transfersummit.com/programme/1346 Full programme details are here http://transfersummit.com/programme I hope to see you there Steve Lee -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: embedded text to speech converter
On 2 April 2011 08:07, Bhavani Shankar R bh...@ubuntu.com wrote: I am presently developing a low cost product with the team members on porting tts software on a tablet which runs ubuntu. So I needed to know that is there any TTS software which runs on ubuntu on a embedded platform preferably based on QT You may find the Debian embedded community useful if you get stuck. At least one dev there works on AT. Steve Lee Full Measure -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: [orca-list] Making Ubuntu Software Center accessible
On 18 February 2010 18:50, Hugh Sasse h...@dmu.ac.uk wrote: I'd suggest that there is a need for people who know more about GNU/Linux accessibility than I do [1] to write about it for a wider audience to get the techniques out there. As a programmer this will benefit you, because you can do [...] as a result of the accessibility hooks being there. Etc. I don't think the problems will start to go away until more people are aware of how easy the easy things are. The difficult things will come later. [1] I don't know much about the programming of accessibility yet. I'm hoping this will change when (if?) I get more time. I hope this article may contribute something here - it's not a 'how to' but more of a pointer to what and who http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/openaccessibility.xml -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Problm linking to Mozilla nightly builds
2009/6/7 Paul Hunt hu...@ukonline.co.uk: I wouldn't bother with the sources list file. Just use Help menu Check for updates... option in Thunderbird regularly to keep it up to date. +1, at least with FFx you can just copy the nightly into a directory in your home and run it there with no problems. Just check for updates every day as Paul Says. You might want to use ther profile manager to keep your main profile isolated (-profilemanager) Steve Lee Open Accessibility - fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: firefox
2009/1/28 mike kb8...@verizon.net: Hi, is there a easy way to delete bookmarks in firefox? In windows for internet sites you save this can be done by In FFx 2.0 bookmarks - organise bookmarks and you can then select all in the various lists and delete them. Steve Lee -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: New developer
Hi Tom, I'm also in the UK and started on in embedded/realtime (many moons ago). Your work sounds great. I'm wondering if you are thinking of wrapping SD as a SAPI voice or taking the simpler path of providing a facade from SD for the SAPI application inteface? To be honest the later would be great, and for me say() plus some of the basic XML markup would keep me happy for ages (plus a user interface or api for voice settings). To be honest the main advantage I can see for implementing the speech engine interfaces would be to help grow the non existance selection of good free SAPI voices. But I guess a lot more work would be needed to create voices that are cross platform. I also sencond Francesco and Willie for the alternative input vote. FWIIW I have created a couple of projects that might provide ideas in this space. The earlier version of Jambu (jambu.fullmeasure.co.uk) is a OSK type user interface using SVG and a GTK custom widget. To be honest it is really a very raw proof of concept. More recently Maavis (http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/maavis) uses the Mozilla platform to provide very simple OSK UI, primarily for touch (pointer) access, but switch is planned. -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk 2008/10/28 Tomas Cerha [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tom Lloyd wrote: Just wanted to say Hi and to get myself known. I have been using Ubuntu for= three or so years. I am a 26 year old developer from the UK trained in Emb= edded / Realtime systems. As a side project I am intergrating SAPI into Ubu= ntu to gives access to the MS speech engines using speech dispatcher. Hello Tom, This sounds exciting. It might be an interesting option and I'd like to invite you to discuss this on the Speech Dispatcher mailing list, since similar ideas have been already touched there. Best regards, Tomas -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: does anyone think a basic guide for new users is a good idea?
yes a great idea Mike I suggest keep it simple and practical so as to fill the gap left by all the techy stuff. Steve 2008/8/7 Hugh Sasse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, mike coulombe wrote: [...] As a thanks I am willing to put together a basic guide for new users that will give them some basic information they can use to get started with orca and ubuntu. [...] Definitely a good idea. Trawling bookshops and the web there is little info out there. [...] I am open to suggestions on what people would like to see included in it. I'd like to know what support there is for people who prefer large print. Trying Ubuntu out a while back I had difficulties when I set the fonts to be large, and whilst I appreciated the existence of a magnifier, I felt it was rather limited in what it could do. Getting terminal windows setup for high contrast, low glare (Eg light on dark) with large print took a while as well, and I think when I tried Vim there was no colour support in the terminal I accessed. Syntax highlighting is great help for trapping absent small punctuation chars like `. Then there are the braille users. [My braille is dead slow, and I don't know 8-dot anyway.] This would be important for deafblind people as well. At present I won't be able to contribute anything to this, but the time will come. Thank you, Hugh -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: voxin
hey Mattias, I just looked it up to see what voxin was and the home pages voxin.oralux.net/ says ' *Warning (20 May 2008): Our Paypal certificate has expired and purchasing Voxin via Paypal or Credit Card is not currently possible. The European bank transfers remain possible. Sorry for this annoyance, we are working to reactivate the Paypal payments as soon as possible.' Cheers -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog Stev On 21/05/2008, mattias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone purchaed voxin? i give a certificate error when try - mattias mobil 0763396420 www.mjw.se -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: changing menu items
On 17/04/2008, Donald Raikes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried going to system - preferences - main menu, and adding a new item, but after specifying the launcher information and clicking ok, it didn't appear in the menu items list. [...] So is there a trick to getting this to work, or is there a way to change the existing launcher to point to the new firefox? Hi Donald, when you add the item the tick box next to it in the list of menu items that makes it visible may be unchecked. If you want to add an item to the panel (the bar at the top with the menus and icons on) then right click and 'add to panel'. Personally I'd keep the old launcher for Firefox around in case you hit problems with the beta. As you posted this to the accessibility list I wonder if you there are access issues with either of these methods like lack of key access (I'm on Windows right now so can't check)? -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re:
On 11/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pages I see ideas about voice control and using a joystick as a mouse. I would be happy to take up either of these projects. If their are any other projects/tasks currently going I would be interested. Hi Andrew, It would be fantastic to have more alternative input options in Ubuntu The recent addition of MouseTweaks helps round out the provision and the 2 you mention would also be great additions. There is also some upstream activity in these areas that was discussed at the GNOME/Mozilla accessibility summit last year. Komodo Open Lab are looking at developing simple voice gesture input. There are X extensions to support alt input devices and perhaps switch joysticks (compared to continuous). You could ping the GNOME a11y project as someone there should be able to provide more info on both. I think some research and clear documentation on how to configure the various options would be really useful. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Accessability in Edubuntu
On 02/10/2007, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can tell you exactly how well orca will work in a thin client environment and I can explain why. Orca requires a thick client to work at all, and it requires broad band access. Without those two components in place it will not work at all. I can't comment on Orca so I'll just make a couple of general points as thin clients need to support AT as well. In the UK education section (schoolforge.org.uk) thin client is one of the key advantages of FOSS that can be promoted (saving cash, ease admin). I have limited knowledge but believe the situation should not be as bad as you present. I just needs some concentrated effort. * X, (the linux display system) is naturally thin client. LTSP just gets it going and in usual desktop situations the display happens to be on the same box as the client software. Thus most programs will 'just work' thin client as far as display and common input is concerned unless they have worked around it somehow. The Accessibility APIs also work in this distributed model * I understand sound now works with LTSP. * As far as performance/bandwidth is concerned yes thin client pushes the load onto infrastructure and servers. The X protocol is pretty good and optimisations are available (NX, ndiyo). The graphics packages that many programs and widget sets use work hard to reduce bandwidth too (e.g cairo). www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Assistive_Technology_with_Terminal_Servers -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves www.fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: How to enable text to speech in Edubuntu Fiesty
On 19/09/2007, Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running thin clients from and Edubuntu 7.04 server and need to get text to speech working. Hi Jim you could try asking on schoolforge.org.uk list as a few people there got sound working with various thin clients ( K12-LTSP and Ubuntu). http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Mailing_lists -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves www.fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: firefox
My impression is that Minefield is what you get from a trunc build of the source (i.e the latest and greatest at any point in time). Grand Paradiso, Bonecho etc are more stable snapshots (and short term branches). On 4/12/07, Freddy Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minefield was the previous name of the Grand Paradiso project. On 4/11/07, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Freddy Martinez wrote: we expect some time around October. We are still in the alpha stage of development of Paradiso which is the code name of Firefox 3. What's the difference between Paradiso and Minefield? Bertil Smark Nilsson -- Best, Freddy Martinez Kubuntu. Linux for human beings. www.chi.ubuntu-us.org /message -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu 6.10 Server and Accessability
Hi Ian, you don't say exactly what sort of server you're after but as you mention Thin Client you might like edubuntu which includes LTSP and has a server install. I don't know if it has all the accessibility enabled or if it tracks the main ubuntu daily builds if that is what you are after. LTSP basically provides a mechanism to load and boot a X server on the client so clients can boot in many ways including Etherboot. Perhaps also from USB memory devices (if enabled in BIOS). Local file access may not work with think clients and NTFS formated partition access doesn't seem to work out of the box on LiveCD workstation boots (at least I haven't got it working). That's about the sum of my knowledge but you could try a post on the schoolforge.org.uk maillist (http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss) as many there use LTSP in schools (especially the Fedora based K12LTSP distro). -- Steve Lee www.oatsoft.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.fullmeasure.co.uk On 11/26/06, Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I recall from a posting a little while ago that Henrick suggested setting up a Server from the normal desktop Live CD to ensure that the system had all the accessability options built. Over the Xmas period I hope to do the same on my home system, and once set up it will be a headless server - ie one without monitor, keyboard or mouse and quitely sitting in the background doing what it must. My questions are: 1. The PC to be used as the server has a small HD with the storage being provided on external USB drives. I want to try and keep the build down to the bare minimum to allow space for the extras - like LAMP - to be installed and run successfully. The question here is can I remove the Gnome desktop but maintain the screen reading abilities for when I need to directly use the server, ie not remotely administer it from another PC on my network? 2. I want to have the ability to show off Ubuntu on guest machines as they connect to my network. I don't necessarily want to give them Live CDs but thought it would be easier to run it something along the lines of a thin client from the server - can this be done without too much hacking? In particular one of my daughters have a school provided laptop which has been locked down by the removal of the CD drive and she quite likes Ubuntu so I would like to give her the ability to connect to my network, still have access to the files on her laptop, but run Ubuntu instead of XP - 3. A more general question. Is the Official Ubuntu Guide going to be re-issued for 6.10? And if so will it be available as a PDF file (please?)? Perhaps, some clever people could set up the book so that it automatically gets updates at the same time as the main system. I know that there is extensive help within the OS but it is always nice to have a reference available without having to boot a Ubuntu machine up specifically for that task (I have one machine which is Ubuntu at the moment and one which is XP). Cheers Ian -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: just a idea
I guess something like http://portableapps.com/ should be workable for linux as app installation is generally simpler (no registry). -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org On 10/28/06, Beth Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Beth Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 27, 2006 11:00 PM Subject: Re: just a idea To: mike coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ubuntu ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com You can put a vmware virtual machine on a thumb drive with a copy of vmware player. All you have to do is install the vm player and use it to access you os on the thumb drive. I suggest a 2mb drive for that so you have room for documents and stuff. On 10/27/06, mike coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I was using a computer at a friends house today and had a idea. Would it be possible to make a version of ubuntu that could run from a usb drive. This way a student or anyone for that matter could take their operating system with them. I was thinking about a mini version that would contain one of the screen readers, orca or lsr, a word processor, gedit will probably work and a few other basic tools. I don't know how small a system like this could be, but I can see it would be very useful. Just a thought, Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Minor start up accessibility issue
This may be specific to my system as I upgraded my laptop edubuntu installation to Ubuntu 6.10 which I guess means it may now not be quite a complete ubuntu or edubuntu setup (there was no option to upgrade to edubuntu 6.10). When I boot up the progress bar has extremely low contrast, in fact I can hardly see the change. It is also rather small on my 1280x800. In addition the text to 'press enter' at the end of shutdown is high contrast but very small. I also note the progress text has vanished but I'm guessing that is deliberate due to the new init or screen reader compatibility. Yeah I know it's trivial, but every little helps. Otherwise it looks like a good upgrade apart from DHCP not starting on boot but that's gone away now. Hasn't fixed my broken sound though. -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: just a idea
Actually could the LiveCD image be made to work on a USB key? It would be great if users could carry their AT setup with them from machine to machine. That implies the same OS/Distro on each machine or standards. Ideally just the config would be carried but the portable apps way would allow 'installation'. -- Steve Lee www.oatsoft.org www.fullmeasure.co.uk On 10/28/06, Steve Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess something like http://portableapps.com/ should be workable for linux as app installation is generally simpler (no registry). -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk www.oatsoft.org On 10/28/06, Beth Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Beth Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 27, 2006 11:00 PM Subject: Re: just a idea To: mike coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ubuntu ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com You can put a vmware virtual machine on a thumb drive with a copy of vmware player. All you have to do is install the vm player and use it to access you os on the thumb drive. I suggest a 2mb drive for that so you have room for documents and stuff. On 10/27/06, mike coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I was using a computer at a friends house today and had a idea. Would it be possible to make a version of ubuntu that could run from a usb drive. This way a student or anyone for that matter could take their operating system with them. I was thinking about a mini version that would contain one of the screen readers, orca or lsr, a word processor, gedit will probably work and a few other basic tools. I don't know how small a system like this could be, but I can see it would be very useful. Just a thought, Mike. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- -- Steve Lee www.fullmeasure.co.uk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
