[forwarding kind email from Peter Korn, will reply myself tomorrow morning]
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 18:32, Peter Korn <peter.k...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Tomeu, gang, > > [I'm cc-ing Joanie Diggs, co-maintainer of Orca] > > I believe there are 6 key things that need to be done in/for Sugar to enable > use of the GNOME accessibility work for folks with vision impairments. > Others more expert in the specific details may correct/amend my comments. I > believe the 6 things are: > > The shift of AT-SPI from CORBA to DBUS (in process, not yet completed, but > builds of at-spi2 are in the GNOME code repository and if someone would start > playing and testing with it on the OLPC, that'd be great!) > Implementation of ATK by the Sugar UI components (this is the accessibility > API that screen readers like Orca use) > Creating / adapting a magnifier service on Sugar for Orca. This may be a > fairly trivial port of gnome-mag (non-COMPOSITE edition), or it may be a > complete re-write > Porting Orca to Sugar. This may be fairly trivial, or it may involve a new > Sugar-style GUI, etc. > Adding theme support go Sugar for vision impairments - things like a > large-print theme, and inverse theme, etc. > Ensure 100% keyboard operability of Sugar > > Tomeu - are there folks in sugar-devel who have cycles to work on these > things? > > > Regards, > > > Peter > > On 9/7/2010 12:49 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 20:15, Esteban Arias <ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote: > > > no, I tested with gnome desktop. > > > Ok, I can help you get in touch with the GNOME team that works on > accessibility if you want. They are very dedicated, friendly and > talented bunch. Collabora and other companies also provide services > related to accessibility and GNOME. > > But nobody else than us is going to fix accessibility in Sugar so > that's why I'm asking if anybody here has interest in working on this. > The first need is finding someone who can tell us what needs to be > improved in Sugar so it can be used by people with no or very low > vision. > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > > > 2010/9/3 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> > > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 18:25, Esteban Arias <ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> > wrote: > > > xo-1.0 | F11 | Dextrose version | Gnome desktop | orca 2.26.3 > > If I set: "run at startup" > orca run correctly. > > > Hi Esteban, > > to clarify, you configure orca in some way so it runs when sugar > starts up and it reads what is on the screen? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > > > If I excecute "orca" from Terminal, shows error: > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/orca/mouse_review.py:189: Warning: > invalid > uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GdkDisplayX11' > self._mouseDwellTimeout(event.detail1, event.detail2) > > Displays Preferences dialog, but dont reads screen. > > Regards, > Esteban Arias. > > 2010/9/2 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 14:51, Esteban Arias <ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> > wrote: > > > I install orca on xo 1.0 with gnome for f11. > If I config to start session with orca, runs ok. But if I execute > orca > from > terminal, dont run correctly: > > > Hi Esteban, > > could be that your email arrived to us incomplete? > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > > 2010/9/1 pbrobin...@gmail.com <pbrobin...@gmail.com> > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 14:10, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 14:08, Esteban Arias > <ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote: > > > hi, > we can colaborate with this proyect. > > > Excelent, have you tried already orca with Sugar? And with GNOME? > > > I would say that the next step is for someone who knows how orca > is > used to give it a try and file tickets for the biggest issues. Not > sure we can make much more until then. > > > The gnome guys mentioned this the other day and there's going to be > some more work done within gnome hopefully for F-14. So hopefully we > should be looking better for that release. > > Peter > > > -- > Esteban Arias > Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal > Avda. Italia 6201 > Montevideo - Uruguay. > Tel.: 2601.57.73 Interno 2228 > E-mail : ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy > > > > > -- > Esteban Arias > Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal > Avda. Italia 6201 > Montevideo - Uruguay. > Tel.: 2601.57.73 Interno 2228 > E-mail : ear...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy > > > > > -- > Esteban Arias > Investigación y Desarrollo - Plan Ceibal > Avda. 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