Hi Eric,
I've added comments in-line below. However, this is probably beginning to get
a little off topic for the list. Maybe take further discussion off list if you
want to respond further. Alternatively, maybe you have some suggestions or
ubuntu specific points that could be brought in to get
I just wanted to ask that you guys not take this topic off list. It was
one of the most seriously useful conversations that has been on here for a
long time, because it looks at the future of a barely functional state of
things which is really what we all should be concerned about. So, I have
I'm also following this thread. I had to program by voice for three
years in the '90s, first with Dragon Dictate, and then with Naturally
Speaking. I eventually wrote 1,600 voice macros mostly to control
emacs to help me do my job.
When I started with Dragon Dictate, I was excited about the
On Sun, 16 May 2010, Tim Cross wrote:
Hi Eric,
I've added comments in-line below. However, this is probably beginning to get
a little off topic for the list. Maybe take further discussion off list if you
I beg to differ. This is an accessibility list, and these questions are
surely
One would have hoped that 19 years after the Americans with
Disabilities Act, and 15 years after similar UK legislation was
enacted, things would have improved. I wonder if the Electronic
Frontier Foundation could use such legislation to get more
cross-platform support from the large commercial
I suggested moving this discussion off list as I've found in the past that
general accessibility issues on a distribution specific list are not always
welcomed. If the general feeling of list participants is that this sort of
discussion is on topic, interesting and useful, I have no problems
One thing I have been wondering about for a long time is how to actually
contribute as an Ubuntu Accessibility maintainer. Though I have asked and
tried to get some input on it, no one has offered assistance from the
official team. My real problem is that the directions and documentation
for
I've had this conversation with a couple of OSS developers and the answers
always leave me very uncomfortable.
The problem is how does one live by OSS principals when essential tools are
vehemently closed and the barriers to replacements are decade scale and no one
is working on them?
The
On 5/15/2010 8:59 PM, Tim Cross wrote:
Hi Eric,
the points you raise and your observations are all true, but I don't think
there is a good answer. What it really boils down to is that OSS is largely
about solutions that have been developed by users scratching their own itch.
Unfortunately,
