Re: Re: [orca-list] [ubuntu] updated a11y page

2013-02-19 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry for the cross posting, and I know those on the Orca list have already seen this, but I just wanted to bring the following to everyone's attention. Bill Dengler has taken his opinion that Vinux is irrelevant

Global Bug Jam This Weekend

2012-03-03 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, This weekend is Ubuntu's Global Bug Jam. Although we aren't doing an in-person jam, Alan Bell, myself, and others are working in #ubuntu-accessibility[0]. Currently we're trying to finish the last personas[1]. If we get those done before the end of the weekend, we will move onto other

Meeting: Wednesday January 18, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC

2012-01-14 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hello All, There will be an accessibility team meeting on Wednesday, January 18, 2011 at 21:00 UTC in #ubuntu-accessibility on irc.freenode.net Meeting Agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda Please feel free to add other agenda items! I look forward to seeing as

Re: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues

2012-01-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Luke Yelavich them...@ubuntu.com wrote: This was sent to the dev list, and probably should really be on the main accessibility list. - Forwarded message from lenscom...@gmail.com lenscom...@gmail.com - Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:00:25 + From:

Re: Changing Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-12 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Hammer Attila hamm...@pickup.hu wrote: Hy Dave, Feel free you put with you worked final steps with a Wiki page, I am not have accessing yet any Wiki page. Of course if you suggest me a Wiki page with have public editing possibility, I welcome doing

Re: How do I switch from Unity 3D to Unity 2D in Oneiric Ocelot?

2011-11-03 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM, James Buchanan ja...@jbuchanan.org wrote: I haven't been able to make this work. It seems like lightdm is actually rewriting the file on *login* rather than logoff...no matter what I do, Ubuntu is still selected as the session when I get back to lightdm, and

UDS Accessibility Sessions November 2

2011-11-02 Thread Penelope Stowe
The schedule has changed some so today we get a different session than we were expecting. 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC) Community Accessibility Testing Bonaire 1 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-accessibility-team-testing

UPDATED: UDS Accessibility Sessions November 2

2011-11-02 Thread Penelope Stowe
Please note the added session in bold today due to a scheduling conflict. The schedule has changed some so today we get a different session than we were expecting. 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC) Community Accessibility Testing Bonaire 1

Ubuntu Developer Summit for Precise Pangolin - Accessibility Sessions

2011-10-28 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi All, I'm sorry we haven't had a meeting in a while, I've had some health stuff I've been dealing with. Next week is the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida. This UDSwill be planning for Precise Pangolin, which is a Long Term Support release so hopefully we can use it to truly get

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Released! - Accessibility Release Notes

2011-10-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi All, For those of you who haven't already seen the official release announcement[0], Ubuntu 11.10 has been released! Some members of the accessibility team, led by Alan Bell, put together our own release announcement[1] with the notes on what's changed in accessibility for this release. I

Next Meeting: Wednesday 27 April 2011 @ 21:00 UTC

2011-04-20 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, I know that we were due to have a meeting today, but I need to post pone it to next week. So our next meeting will be Wednesday 27 April at 21:00 UTC. The big agenda items will be looking back at this cycle and getting ready for UDS next cycle! Thanks! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Adding accessibility profiles after the fact?

2011-04-05 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Nolan Darilek no...@thewordnerd.info wrote: Hello. I just bought a new laptop. Unfortunately, nothing I do gets the installation CD to come up talking, so I'm thinking that I'll be taking it into the store to have them do the install for me. To simplify matters,

Meeting: April 6 2011 @ 2100 UTC

2011-04-05 Thread Penelope Stowe
Okay, almost everyone wanted 2100 UTC so that's when the meeting will be. If you can't make it, don't worry. This is mostly to go over the blueprint we did for Natty. I know a lot of things are going to need to get postponed and I just want a sense of where we are! I look forward to seeing as

Re: 11.04 - Unity keyboard/mouse shortcuts - Ask Ubuntu - Stack Exchange

2011-04-04 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Dave Hunt ka1...@gmail.com wrote: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-shortcuts According to Jorge Castro, that is the final list. I'm going to try to create a page on the Ubuntu accessibility wiki[0] this week that duplicates the info.

Re: Dash and onscreen keyboard

2011-03-22 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Francesco Fumanti francesco.fuma...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, On 2011-03-21 20:32, Charlie Kravetz wrote: I have been unable to find a way to type in the Search field, using either Onboard Keyboard or Dasher. It also does not work with kvkbd, even if you place

Meeting Reminder: March 16, 2011 @ 21:00UTC

2011-03-14 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, Just a reminder that we have a meeting on Wednesday at 21:00UTC (Reminder to Americans and Canadians that that's now 17:00 on the east coast). Agenda can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda Thanks! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

REMINDER: Meeting Today (February 16, 2011) at 21:00 UTC

2011-02-16 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, Just a friendly reminder that we have a meeting today at 21:00 UTC. Meeting agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda Thanks! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Next Meeting: January 19, 2011 at 21:00 UTC

2011-01-19 Thread Penelope Stowe
Thank you to everyone who attended for a great meeting! Meeting Minutes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2011-01-19 Meeting Logs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingLogs/20110119 Our next meeting will be February 16, 2011 at 21:00 UTC Thanks!

Accessibility Issues with the LoCo Directory and Ubuntu Website

2010-11-29 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I've been talking to the developers of the LoCo Directory and the Ubuntu Website and they're very frustrated with the bugs and complaints about accessibility on the website, not because they don't want to do anything, but because they are not in

Post-UDS Meeting on November 10, 2010 Plans for Natty Cycle

2010-11-07 Thread Penelope Stowe
HI, Sorry I've not gotten this e-mail out sooner. We will be meeting November 10, 2010 at 21:00 UTC. Most of our discussion will be following up from the great work we got done at UDS! I'm very excited about our plans for this cycle, but we also need to get things organised and kicked off to

Accessibility at UDS

2010-10-26 Thread Penelope Stowe
Sorry this e-mail is out late, but I got distracted yesterday. There will be several sessions dealing with accessibility at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, Ubuntu's twice yearly summit to look ahead to what we need to accomplish in the next cycle. You can look at all the scheduled sessions at

Fwd: CSUN 2011 Call for Papers

2010-09-07 Thread Penelope Stowe
I wanted to pass this on to this list in case anyone was interested in putting something together. ~Penelope -- Forwarded message -- From: Bryen M. Yunashko susero...@bryen.com Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:46 PM Subject: CSUN 2011 Call for Papers To: GNOME-A11y

Planning for UDS-N and Natty Narwhal

2010-09-06 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, It's that time of the cycle when we want to start thinking about what we want to get done in the next cycle. For those who don't know the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) happens at the beginning of each cycle to plan out what teams want to get done in that cycle. UDS-Natty Narwhal will be in

Re: Reminder: August 18 meeting at 21:00 UTC

2010-09-04 Thread Penelope Stowe
Thanks to everyone who made it to the meeting! Sorry the logs and minutes are so late. The minutes are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda and the logs are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Accessibility/20100818 Our next meeting will be September 15th at 21:00 UTC.

Fwd: 2010/08/19 07:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

2010-08-18 Thread Penelope Stowe
I'm not likely to make it to this meeting, but it's held in #a11y on irc.gnome.org and it would be great if we could have a larger Ubuntu Accessibility team presence with GNOME accessibility. ~Penelope -- Forwarded message -- From: Joanmarie Diggs joan...@gnome.org Date: Aug 18,

Reminder: August 18 meeting at 21:00 UTC

2010-08-18 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, Just a reminder that we have a meeting in #ubuntu-accessibility today at 21:00 UTC (about 40 minutes from now). The agenda can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda Thanks! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Meetings

2010-08-12 Thread Penelope Stowe
I apologize for not being good at getting logs up after meetings, but the meeting logs from the last meeting are up at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingLogs/20100630 Our next meeting will be Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 21:00 UTC. If no one has any major complaints, I'd like to

August 18, 2010 Meeting Agenda

2010-08-12 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, I've updated the wiki ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda ) to reflect the agenda for the next meeting. Please feel free to add to the agenda with concerns/things you'd like to discuss! The current agenda: * Next Steps on Personas * Status of Wiki * What's Happening

Re: Personas Survey Creation

2010-06-30 Thread Penelope Stowe
If you have any more feedback on the survey please get it in within the next 5 hours or so (so by 19:00 UTC). I'd like to get the questions finalized prior to today's meeting. Feedback can be put into the etherpad as well as e-mailed to the list (or discussed on IRC, etc.) Thanks, Penelope --

Scheduling Our Next Meeting

2010-06-24 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, Sorry for being so behind this month, I've had some health related stuff come up that has heavily impacted my ability to get things done. Hopefully things have now turned the corner and will start to improve. As it's time for us to think about our next meeting, I'd like to propose meeting

Personas Survey Creation

2010-06-24 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, Alan Bell and I have been working on the questionnaire that we'll distribute to gather the information to create the accessibility personas. What we have so far is up at http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/OGCR7tZiNX and we'd really appreciate any feedback and/or additions to it. We're aiming to have

Follow-up From May 25th Meeting/Accessibility Team Goals for Maverick Meerkat

2010-06-05 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, Sorry this e-mail is so late, I've spend the last week and a half moving house and recovering. On May 25th we met and had a quite successful meeting. The main point of the meeting was to follow up from the UDS session and run the decisions there past people and create a plan. The biggest

Reminder: Meeting Today at 21:00 UTC

2010-05-25 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, Just a reminder that there is a meeting today at 21:00 UTC in #ubuntu-accessibility We'll be updating everyone on what was discussed at the Ubuntu Developer Summit and start getting some structure into the group for the next 6 months. I look forward to seeing you all there! Thanks,

Fwd: [Ubuntu-Classroom] Call for Ubuntu User Days Instructors

2010-05-24 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, We're still looking for instructors and it might be cool if someone from here could do a class on setting up accessibility features (or just on what accessibility features exist) in Lucid! Thanks, Penelope -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Johnston

Re: Follow-up to UDS Meeting

2010-05-20 Thread Penelope Stowe
Just a reminder that I really need to know what times people are available! I've heard from only two people. The last time I scheduled a meeting several people complained about the time, so I'd really like to get feedback from more people. Thank you! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing

Follow-up to UDS Meeting

2010-05-18 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, We had a very successful session about the team at UDS and decided to have a meeting next week to follow-up with the entire team. Please e-mail me your availability by this Friday, May 21, at 12:00 UTC so I can come up with a meeting time. Please note that I will probably try to turn this

IRC Channel

2010-05-18 Thread Penelope Stowe
I just wanted to send out a reminder that we do have an IRC channel that people can use and/or hang out in. It's #ubuntu-accessibility on freenode. I've noticed in meetings that there's a lot of general discussion that's happened that isn't always on-topic for the meeting and wanted to remind

Fwd: The Excalibur System

2010-05-11 Thread Penelope Stowe
I got this from the Gnome Accessibility list, although it looks like the original e-mail went to ubuntu-devel-discuss . I'm ccing the original writer just so he knows we exist! I thought it's something you all will also be interested in. Penelope Original Message Subject:

New Time and Location: Reorganizing and Reviving the Ubuntu Accessibility Team

2010-05-11 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hello, The community-based Reorganizing and Reviving the Ubuntu Accessibility Team has been moved to tomorrow (Wednesday, May 12) at 13:00 UTC in the Snakewood room (#ubuntu-uds-snakewood) as the feedback I got from people was unanimously in favour of moving the meeting up. Hopefully none of the

Remind: Ubuntu Accessibility Sessions today at UDS!

2010-05-11 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, Just a final reminder that there are two accessibility sessions today at UDS. Information about remote participation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-M/RemoteParticipation 8:00 UTC - Get the accessibility infrastructure updated for use with Gnome 3.0 (desktop track) --Cocobolo 1

Ubuntu Accessibility at the Ubuntu Developer Summit

2010-05-10 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, There are currently two different sessions at UDS dealing with accessibility. The first one is on the desktop track so will be development oriented (I suspect). It's called Get the accessibility infrastructure updated for use with GNOME 3 in Ubuntu and is currently scheduled for Wednesday

Reminder: Meeting This Morning at 10:00 UTC!

2010-05-06 Thread Penelope Stowe
Just a final reminder that we have a meeting in about 12 minutes in #ubuntu-accessibility ! The agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingAgenda I look forward to seeing whoever can make it! -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Next Meeting **Revised Date**: May 6 2010 10:00 UTC

2010-05-03 Thread Penelope Stowe
The meeting will be in #ubuntu-accessibility. And for the person who asked, yes, that's 6AM EDT in the US. I know it's really early, but last time most of the people at the meeting were in the UK/Europe and also due to my work schedule this week, I needed to hold an early meeting. Please let me

Next Meeting **Revised Date**: May 6 2010 10:00 UTC

2010-05-02 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, Due to feedback from people, the next meeting will now be on Thursday May 6 2010 at 10:00 UTC (that's 11:00AM BST). I look forwatd to seeing you all there! Thanks! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Our Next Meeting - Blueprint for UDS

2010-04-28 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, I got feedback on meeting times from exactly 1 person for this week. As it's now half way through the week I'd like to propose we have a meeting next week instead. How does Tuesday morning at either 9:00 or 10:00 UTC work for people? (That's 10:00 or 11:00 BST) Please let me know which is

Next Meeting

2010-04-22 Thread Penelope Stowe
Sorry I didn't get this e-mail out sooner, but we discussed at the last meeting having another meeting next week. As several of us couldn't make the same time again, can people who are interested please e-mail me with times? I am likely to aim this one for a morning UTC time rather than an

April 13, 2010 Meeting Logs

2010-04-14 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, For all of you who missed the meeting, the full logs are now up on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Team/MeetingLogs/20100413 I'll get minutes and other notes out later today. Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

REMINDER: Meeting Today

2010-04-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi, Just a reminder that there is a meeting today at 21:00 UTC (that's 22:00 BST for those of you who, like me, get confused during daylight savings time). The meeting will be in #ubuntu-accessibility. I look forward to seeing all of you there! Penelope -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

Re: REMINDER: Meeting Today

2010-04-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Hammer Attila hamm...@pickup.hu wrote: Hy, Will be have a public log file after the meeting is end? Yes. I'm either going to do a manual meeting log or if I have time today see if I can get MootBot set up. Have a topic list? Agenda:

Ubuntu Accessibility Meeting: Tuesday 13 April at 21:00 UTC

2010-04-07 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, So I looked at people's responses for times they could make and it looks like the time the most people can make is 21:00 UTC (22:00 BST) next Tuesday. The meeting will be in #ubuntu-accessibility on irc.freenode.net . If you wish to attend, but are unfamiliar with IRC, please let me know

Re: Accessibility Meeting

2010-04-05 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Glen Darby glen.m.da...@virgin.net wrote: Any reply would be appreciated, even if you say it is not what the meetings for, just so I know. To be honest, I want to partially hold a meeting so that we can figure out what people do want to do and what we can do as

Reviving the Accessibility Team - meeting?

2010-03-31 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, I've been looking around on what there is for the Accessibility Team on the wiki and reading e-mails, along with chatting with Luke on IRC (in #ubuntu-accessibility) and it strikes me that we need to create a solid Accessibility Team in the community. Not only will doing so help future

Re: Hiya - Question about Dasher

2010-03-29 Thread Penelope Stowe
I've gotten one response to this message (sent directly to me), which I do appreciate. Does anyone else have any Dasher experience? I'm especially interested on inputting directly to other applications using Ubuntu. If this is something not possible yet, I have no problem telling the Dasher

Hiya - Question about Dasher

2010-03-27 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hiya, I'm new to this list, although not particularly new to Ubuntu. I have mobility issues that are getting worse and make typing difficult. So I have a couple questions: 1) Are there any other Dasher users out there? I've been using Dasher on MacOS and much prefer it over voice recognition