Status of IBM a11y

Best regards, Peter Parente -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Orca, AT-SPI and the Compiz zoom project

Hi Kristian, Traditionally, screen reader ATs like gnopernicus originally and now Orca and LSR drive the gnome-magnifier. The magnifier itself is just a "dummy" component which is completely controller by the other ATs. They tell it where to look, how much to zoom, how big a zoom region should be

Fwd: Module Proposal: LSR

FYI. Please see the message on the desktop developers' list and post your comments to that list so they are all in one place. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-April/msg00148.html Thanks, Pete -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https:

Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)

Eitan Isaascon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is responsible for taking a mock-up from Peter Parente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and turning it into the wonderful, useful tool that it is today. == For more information Visit the Accerciser web site at http://live.gnome.org/Accerciser. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing

Re: Screen Magnifier

Hi, I know that the Orca screen reader has support for driving the gnome-magnifier at present. I'm not sure what options are available for configuring it today. The next release of Linux Sreen Reader will also have support for using the gnome-magnifier by itself and with speech and/or Braille. We

LSR 0.3.2 - BSD Licensed!

== * What is it ? == Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an extensible assistive technology for people with disabilities. The design philosophy behind LSR is to provide a core platform that enables the development of LSR extensions for improving desktop application accessibility a

Re: Crash on red squiggly line (was Re: Orca/Magnifier Issues)

oesn't seem to cause a crash. > > I'll file a bug with the OOo folks regarding the crash. > > Thanks! > > Will > > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:25 -0500, Peter Parente wrote: > > Hi Robert and Will, > > > > > 1) I noticed that doing spell-checking

Re: Orca/Magnifier Issues

Hi Robert and Will, > 1) I noticed that doing spell-checking in OpenOffice Writer while > using ORca/Magnifier (without speech) caused OpenOffice to crash. At one point I noticed that inspecting the text attributes on a word with a red squiggly line under it in ANY application appears to crash t

Re: eSpeak and Screen Readers?

Lorenzo T. indicated on the gnome accessibility mailing list that he managed to get eSpeak working in LSR via Speech Dispatcher. Here's a link to his post. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00038.html Pete -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessi

ANNOUNCE: Linux Screen Reader 0.3.0

== * What is it ? == The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) project is an open source effort to develop an extensible assistive technology for the GNOME desktop environment. The goal of the project is to create a reusable development platform for building alternative and supplementa

Re: problem with movie player and orca

Hi, I believe Rhythmbox and Totem both use ALSA to talk to the sound hardware on your machine. ALSA has the nice capability of mixing multiple streams of audio across applications. On the other hand, most (if not all) speech synthesizers use the older OSS sound library to talk to your sound card.