Hi Henrik and all, Sorry for this question, but since i am new here and little newbie to Linux I have to ask! Is the installer talking now if I arrow down to the option when booting the CD? Many thanks, Christian
On 2006-04-21 at 18:27 Henrik wrote: >Hi all, > >The beta for 6.06 has just been released and the plans for the next >version 'Edgy Eft' were announced just a few days ago. Edgy will take >some risks, introducing new technologies like XGL rendering even if they >are not completely mature. I think we in the accessibility team should >think along the same lines and get to work on some exiting new assistive >technology opportunities. > >This is the time to start floating some ambitious new ideas. Let's do >some brainstorming on this and get some of the doable things on the wiki >as specifications. Let's think beyond what Windows or OS X has (each >with it's proprietary add-ons) and think about what users really need. > >So, some ideas: > >Orca User Interface -- I've been talking a bit with the Orca team about >working on the configuration UI. We in Ubuntu have a good community that >can provide valuable ideas and testing for this and Orca seems to run >quite happily on the Ubuntu platform. Orca has been put forward for >inclusion in gnome 2.16, which IMO is the right move, but for that to >happen it probably needs a config UI (be it GUI or not). > >General AT config UI -- I feel that the AT settings in gnome are handled >a bit awkwardly and could do with a rethink and some centralisation. >This should be seen in context with the point above. I'd like to see an >extensible config utility where different apps could plug in. > >XGL-based screen magnifier -- The new desktop rendering technologies >using the 3D rendering hardware hold great promise for screen >magnification. We already see the zoom features demoed on XGL systems >magnifying faster and smoother and with better clarity than the existing >magnifiers like kmag or Gnopernicus. However, in order to be useful for >low vision users features like cursor tracking will be needed along with >general configuration tools. > >Speech dispatcher -- According to their website the SD gnome-speech >driver will soon be shipped with gnome-speech. How mature is this? >Should we standardise on SD for speech output in Ubuntu? What else is >needed, configuration interfaces? (as you can read I don't know very >much about this technology, so others please fill in the blanks.) > >KDE -- What's cooking in KDE 4? We have seen talk about gnome and KDE >using the same AT infrastructure. What is the state of this and is there >anything ubuntu/ubuntu can do to help? The idea is that KDE4 apps will >use AT-SPI, right? So will they simply work with Orca and GOK or will >new KDE AT apps be written? > >On screen Keyboard -- My critical view of GOK is no secret [1]. I think >we can do much better, but it will probably require a new approach. >Perhaps it could be made more modular so that different use cases don't >get in each other's way. [1]: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12942 > >Mouse Tweaks - We have a large cursor set going into dapper now, but it >could IMO be sharper and more complete. There are also gains to be made >in tweaking the pointer motion, such as making it less sensitive to hand >tremors (with adjustable settings of course). > >Ubuntu will be participating in Google's Summer of Code project again >this year which is generally a good place to start small new development >projects. I've written up some basic abstracts for some possible >projects, but I would also like to make some progress on fleshing out >some specs. The more detail we can work out now, the quicker the >students can get cracking on the code. Please suggest areas I might have >overlooked where we should focus as well or instead. See: >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2006 > >- Henrik > > >-- >Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
