Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-03 Thread Milton
Maybe a point to start? https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/the-value-of-the-community/?_ga=1.26280317.1569423750.1450296328 Op 02-03-16 om 06:18 schreef Michael Pozhidaev: Hi Luke, Thank you very much for the information you give! The only question I would like to ask is should we expect

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-02 Thread B. Henry
I'd say it's not going to happen for you/get an android phone, or iphone if you must for now. Maybe the powers that be will care enough to invest paying Luke and perhaps someone to help him to get things working for us in a year or two, but I'm honestly not particularly optimistic. If they ca

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 02.03.2016, 11:08 +1100 schrieb Luke Yelavich: > > Is Ubuntu phone already on Mir or it still uses ordinary X.org? I am > > really impatient to try something (although don't have this phone > > yet). I am ready to try getting this phone, but I need to be sure > > that I will b

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-01 Thread Michael Pozhidaev
Hi Luke, Thank you very much for the information you give! The only question I would like to ask is should we expect the team, which will be involved in fixing input events and general Mir support, working somewhere around Ubuntu or this team is just the same team who are now busy with AT-SPI deve

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-01 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:20:18PM AEDT, Michael Pozhidaev wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Luke Yelavich writes: > > > There is much to be done to get this off the ground. Given that > > Canonical is writing its own display server Mir, the first requirement > > is to properly tie in the accessibility infra

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-01 Thread Lisa Brandt
I finally got around to installing Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 7, and was disappointed to see absolutely no accessibility features. -- Lisa Brandt, PCC Disability Services Accessibility Technician Alternate Media Formats Technician SE SCOMM 112 | SY CC 260 Assistive Technology Support and Appointm

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-03-01 Thread Milton
Yes, I prefer an Ubuntu phone and convergence accessible with speech. Milton Op 01-03-16 om 05:12 schreef Michael Pozhidaev: Hi guys, A lot of rumors appears around the Ubuntu phone, what is very great news in itself. I'm just wondering is there any work to make this phone accessible for the bl

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-02-29 Thread Michael Pozhidaev
Hi Luke, Luke Yelavich writes: > There is much to be done to get this off the ground. Given that > Canonical is writing its own display server Mir, the first requirement > is to properly tie in the accessibility infrastructure, mainly at-spi, > into working properly with Mir to intercept input ev

Re: Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-02-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 03:12:58PM AEDT, Michael Pozhidaev wrote: > Hi guys, > > A lot of rumors appears around the Ubuntu phone, what is very great news > in itself. I'm just wondering is there any work to make this phone > accessible for the blind? Or it is already suitable now? Anyway, what is

Ubuntu phones and accessibility for the blind

2016-02-29 Thread Michael Pozhidaev
Hi guys, A lot of rumors appears around the Ubuntu phone, what is very great news in itself. I'm just wondering is there any work to make this phone accessible for the blind? Or it is already suitable now? Anyway, what is its status regarding its accessibility for the blind? I'm a totally blind m