Hi Mario,
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:23:31PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
I've recently recognized that we no longer have a speakup-enabled
kernel, and I'm willing to work on the kernel team side to bring it
back for Lenny.
Great, I'd be very happy to see a volunteer working
on this,
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:14:04AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:53, Gilles Casse wrote:
Today, in principle using a Speakup enabled kernel + Speechd-Up +
SpeechDispatcher + eSpeak or in user space, Yasr + emacspeak server +
Hi,
Mario Lang, le Fri 16 Feb 2007 14:23:31 +0100, a écrit :
Willy, are you still willing to help the speakup project to do the final
cleaning up so that mainline submission could happen?
I wouldn't say final: the way speakup access serial ports is to be
completely rethought. The current way
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I
attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works
for Sun on Accessibility and Speech.
Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which works with GTK and could
On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:41, Mario Lang wrote:
For speech and braille output, I ask myself why
a blind user would want to run the Graphical Installer instead
of the text interface. What features does the
graphical installer add (except eye-candy) that is
not provided by the text
Mario Lang wrote:
A side project of this indeavor would be far more
interesting for the masses, namely getting software
speech synthesis into Debian Installer. Currently, people
without braille display hardware can not really
use d-i directly. It would be desireable for Lenny
to get
On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:53, Gilles Casse wrote:
Today, in principle using a Speakup enabled kernel + Speechd-Up +
SpeechDispatcher + eSpeak or in user space, Yasr + emacspeak server +
eSpeak, a text based dialog might be correctly spoken.
However, we understand that the speakup patches
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:41, Mario Lang wrote:
For speech and braille output, I ask myself why
a blind user would want to run the Graphical Installer instead
of the text interface. What features does the
graphical installer add (except eye-candy)
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:14:04AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:53, Gilles Casse wrote:
Today, in principle using a Speakup enabled kernel + Speechd-Up +
SpeechDispatcher + eSpeak or in user space, Yasr + emacspeak server +
eSpeak, a text based dialog might be
Yes, but in text mode, you do not need Orca, there are existing soltuions.
Orca, as I understand it, is a screen reader for graphical environments only.
So the question stands, why would a blind user want to add the overhead that a
graphical environment brings with it, if they can't even see
Hi,
Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit :
During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I
attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works
for Sun on Accessibility and Speech.
Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hi,
Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit :
During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I
attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works
for Sun on Accessibility and Speech.
Willie is the lead man
Attilio Fiandrotti, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 13:43:15 +0100, a écrit :
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit :
During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I
attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Attilio Fiandrotti, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 13:43:15 +0100, a écrit :
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Frans Pop, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 04:10:31 +0100, a écrit :
During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I
attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with
Attilio Fiandrotti, le Wed 14 Feb 2007 14:47:43 +0100, a écrit :
I'd like also to point out that the graphical installer is pure GTK+, no
GNOME components are present inthe instaler: would ORCA still apply in
such an environment?
Orca peeks information from GTK+ widgets via atk, gnome is
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 13:43, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
Samuel Thibault wrote:
One good thing of this would be to have speech accessibility without
the need for having a speakup-patched kernel (though that would be
useful too).
Yes, that is one of the main ideas.
I just installed
Hi All:
It was great to talk with Frans and Wookey about the Debian installer.
Thanks much for your time, guys! I'm also very warmed by the fact that
you are interested in accessibility. :-)
Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which works with GTK and could
thus possibly be integrated
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:31:59PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
We should still aim to keep the regular G-I as lean and mean as possible.
We can gain a _lot_ (in the newt frontend too) by reducing the memory
used for translations.
I did some more research on the font tip and I think we can still
During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I
attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works
for Sun on Accessibility and Speech.
Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which works with GTK and could
thus possibly be integrated in the
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