Re: Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-01 Thread David Bolter
That was painful to read. David Peter Parente wrote: > Hello all, > > Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME > accessibility: > > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer > > Under this new plan, IBM is no longer supporting development of LSR, > Accercise

Announcing GOK v1.2.1!

2007-02-05 Thread David Bolter
== * What is GOK? == GOK enables users to control their desktops without having to rely on a standard keyboard or mouse. It includes a suite of on-screen keyboards as well as dynamic keyboard generation. Please see http://www.gok.ca/ for details. ==

GOK + Ubuntu no longer explodes!

2007-01-19 Thread David Bolter
Just wanted to give a heads up that we just releasedGOK v1.2.1 and it appears to (finally) work around the GOK + Ubuntu + wacom crasher. Here is the tarball: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gok/1.2/gok-1.2.1.tar.gz cheers, David -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@l

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread David Bolter
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: David Bolter wrote: Peter Korn wrote: Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like "gok --simple" (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). Yes. This is difficult though, since I can understand

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread David Bolter
Peter Korn wrote: Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like "gok --simple" (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). Yes. This is difficult though, since I can understand both sides of the fence here. My biased (gok maintainer) opini

Re: Common AT config panel

2006-04-24 Thread David Bolter
Small tangent... Brian Cameron wrote: Henrik: I do not think that this completely solve the "how do I set my accessibility preferences when I can't do anything until the preferences are set up." Perhaps a set of hotkeys are necessary to launch the different accessibility tools so that a user

Re: Testing plan

2005-12-15 Thread David Bolter
Henrik, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: David Bolter wrote: We are happy to add authors to: http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki Perhaps you should consider opening it up as an actual wiki. I think that would encourage more people to contribute. I'm involved in running several Moin wiki

Re: Testing plan

2005-12-15 Thread David Bolter
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Re: detailed review of GOK

2005-12-12 Thread david . bolter
Hi Bill, Henrik... I have minor comments: Quoting Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Henrik: > > The reason that StickyKeys is needed is not only because of general key > combinations like the one you mention (Control-Alt-X) but also because > of the interaction with CapsLock, etc. In g