Re: This is sort of am accessibility problem

2021-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/15/2021 05:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/14/2021 11:43 PM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 13:38 Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/14/2021 10:19 AM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote: Yesterday I installed Debian 11.1.0, 3 times.  I installed with debian-11.1.0-i386-netinst.iso

Re: This is sort of am accessibility problem

2021-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/14/2021 11:43 PM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 13:38 Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/14/2021 10:19 AM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote: Yesterday I installed Debian 11.1.0, 3 times. I installed with debian-11.1.0-i386-netinst.iso and I was connected to the internet with a cable

Re: This is sort of am accessibility problem

2021-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/14/2021 10:19 AM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote: Yesterday I installed Debian 11.1.0, 3 times. I installed with debian-11.1.0-i386-netinst.iso and I was connected to the internet with a cable and and ethernet. I installed 3 times because I couldn't get the root password to set. I know what the

Re: Viable speech recognition tools?

2021-05-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/22/2021 09:48 AM, Aaron wrote: On 5/21/21 6:54 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] The links I found seemed to suggest Deepspeech was aiming at people like me. An important feature is that it is open source. However, I found on article suggesting Mozilla was winding down its development

Re: Viable speech recognition tools?

2021-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/21/2021 12:17 PM, Jason White wrote: On 21/5/21 6:54 am, Richard Owlett wrote: The links I found seemed to suggest Deepspeech was aiming at people like me. An important feature is that it is open source. However, I found on article suggesting Mozilla was winding down its development

Re: Viable speech recognition tools?

2021-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/20/2021 10:25 AM, Aaron wrote: On 5/19/21 5:48 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/16/2021 01:00 PM, Aaron wrote: On 5/16/21 8:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [I'm subscribed to the list ;] I notice PocketSphinx in the Debian repositories. How suitable is it for dictation by a single

Re: Viable speech recognition tools?

2021-05-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/16/2021 01:00 PM, Aaron wrote: On 5/16/21 8:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [I'm subscribed to the list ;] I notice PocketSphinx in the Debian repositories. How suitable is it for dictation by a single speaker? I realize it is designed to be speaker independent. TIA I wouldn't say

Viable speech recognition tools?

2021-05-16 Thread Richard Owlett
I notice PocketSphinx in the Debian repositories. How suitable is it for dictation by a single speaker? I realize it is designed to be speaker independent. TIA

Re: Existence of accessibility standards??????????

2021-04-22 Thread Richard Owlett
is very helpful.  Making sure images have alt texts in their html tag and elements like forms have text labels or if they are image labels that alt texts exist.  Nick Gawronski On 4/22/2021 5:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/21/2021 04:48 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Richard Owlett, le mer. 21

Re: Existence of accessibility standards??????????

2021-04-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/21/2021 04:48 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Richard Owlett, le mer. 21 avril 2021 16:14:58 -0500, a ecrit: Do _verifiable_ "accessibility standards" exist? There are automatic tests, but they are never enough, you always need an end-user test as well. Is there something

Existence of accessibility standards??????????

2021-04-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Do _verifiable_ "accessibility standards" exist? I wish to ask a publicly funded service some ATYPICAL questions. When I submit their homepage to https://validator.w3.org/ it reports 28 errors 10 warnings I am *NOT* visually impaired. However I suspect the site would be VERY difficult to

Re: Why doesn't this page work with Mate?

2020-06-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2020 05:29 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: I am using Mate with Debian Bullseye. However, the version of Debian doesn't make a difference. It may be important that I am using Orca with Braille, When I try this code the window.prompt statement seems to be ignored, and then the browser seems

Re: How do I delete a file in Mate?

2020-06-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/08/2020 02:52 AM, Didier Spaier wrote: Hello, caja also can be run as root, as well as pcmanfm (also shipped in Slint). But doing this is a very bad idea as it makes to easy to delete important parts of the system inadvertently. Cheers, Check out caja-gksu . The gksu extension for

How to reply and or post?

2019-09-06 Thread Richard Owlett
I am not visually impaired. How do I format a post or reply to accommodate multiple tools and or users?

Re: Web accessibility standards/recommendations?

2019-09-03 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/03/2019 08:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Although I am not visually impaired, I find navigating one retailer's website annoying due to inappropriate graphic design. While considering possible improvements, I realized that what would benefit me would likely benefit the visually impaired

Web accessibility standards/recommendations?

2019-09-03 Thread Richard Owlett
Although I am not visually impaired, I find navigating one retailer's website annoying due to inappropriate graphic design. While considering possible improvements, I realized that what would benefit me would likely benefit the visually impaired more. Are there published standards or

Re: More info about petitboot? - was {Re: Can grub be made to talk?}

2019-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/24/2019 06:07 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Richard Owlett, le mer. 24 juil. 2019 05:57:55 -0500, a ecrit: On 07/24/2019 01:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] - petitboot is an interesting approach: you boot a Linux kernel that only runs petitboot, and there you can run a screen

More info about petitboot? - was {Re: Can grub be made to talk?}

2019-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/24/2019 01:40 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] - petitboot is an interesting approach: you boot a Linux kernel that only runs petitboot, and there you can run a screen reader such as brltty. That can then boot the real kernel for the targetted system. I had never heard of

Re: Minimal speech recognition -- discrete/command/control

2019-04-29 Thread Richard Owlett
. On 29/04/2019 14:00, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Richard Owlett, le lun. 29 avril 2019 07:46:45 -0500, a ecrit: I'm looking for speech recognition [speech to text] for command entry tasks. My keywords are: discrete speech small vocabulary speaker independent [not critical] IOW

Minimal speech recognition -- discrete/command/control

2019-04-29 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm looking for speech recognition [speech to text] for command entry tasks. My keywords are: discrete speech small vocabulary speaker independent [not critical] IOW something on the other end of spectrum from Sphinx. My background is at least a decade out of date. I'm assuming an external

Re: Accessibility for person with a motor disability

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/21/2018 10:30 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: Le 21/03/2018 à 15:27, Eric Johansson a écrit : On 3/20/2018 5:35 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a head-tracking software? [snip] I can't use keyboards much because of a repetitive stress

Re: Need testers for Atril PDF accessibility

2017-12-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/13/2017 09:49 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: Hello all, The Mate developers have shipped accessibility features on the Atril PDF Viewer: https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/pull/285#issuecomment-346789007 Could it be possible for some of you to test it and give us your feedback? Personally

Infinite vocabulary *SPEAKER DPENDENT* voice recognition

2017-10-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Most of what I read is oriented towards SPEAKER INDEPENDENT command and control. That's not what I'm looking for. What I'm looking for might be described as a dictation app. I've been casually following speech recognition since the 70's. That would be nirvana *LOL* What I am looking for

Debian's speech recognition, how usable &/or user friendly?I've

2017-07-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I've had varying levels of casual interest in speech recognition since the early 70's when a post-doc friend was doing research [he and his partner shared a DEC KI-10]. I toyed with getting Dragon Naturally Speaking at one time but could justify the cost for the amount I would use it. I'm