From jhernandez at emergya.es Mon Jul 4 07:07:11 2011 From: jhernandez at emergya.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Hernandez_Ant=FAnez?=) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:07:11 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Announce. SITPLUS version 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4E0A2A03.1000603@crea-si.com> References: <4E0A2A03.1000603@crea-si.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cesar Mauri Date: 2011/6/28 Subject: Announce. SITPLUS version 1.0 To: gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org (Apologies for cross postings) What is SITPLUS? ================ SITPLUS is a free software (released under the GNU GPL license) framework whose main goal is to provide ludic-therapeutic activities for people with disabilities. It offers new forms of interaction based on computer vision, voice and other peripherals to produce a result in the form of image and sound. Inspired by the cause and effect applications, SITPLUS provides a tool for continuous and remote interaction, attainable to the majority of people with cognitive, sensory and physical disabilities. What’s new? =========== Thanks to two grants given by the puntCAT Foundation and Caixa Tarragona (Tu Ajudes 2010) to the Associació Provincial de Paràlisi Cerebral (APPC) de Tarragona, the SITPLUS project has made a great jump forward in providing a new set of features among which we highlight: - New graphical engine which can be adapted with custom artwork (the current version ships with several image banks and activities). - Support for Wii Remote controllers. - Major redesign of the application to make it more modular, versatile and customizable. - Compatible with GNU/Linux and Windows. A new video which describes the project goals and shows some of the new features is available at (with English subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=xzGjKCikqvY Where can I get it? =================== For more information and downloads: http://sitplus.appctarragona.**org git repository: git://sitplus.git.sourceforge.**net/gitroot/sitplus/sitplus Credits ======= Cesar Mauri – Project leader and developer. Mabel Garcia – Testing with users at APPC. Lidia Porcar and Jordi Martorell – Artwork design and video. Jordi Duch, Marcos Alba and Jaume Singla – Graphical engine development at Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV). Work partially supported by: ============================ - Fundació puntCat. Obra Social. - Caixa Tarragona. TuAjudes. -- César Mauri Loba cesar at crea-si.com CREA Sistemes Informàtics ______________________________**_________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@**gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/gnome-accessibility-**list -- Javier Hernández Antúnez Área de Operaciones Emergya Consultoría Tlfno: +34 954 51 75 77 Fax: +34 954 51 64 73 http://www.emergya.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhernandez at emergya.es Mon Jul 4 07:11:38 2011 From: jhernandez at emergya.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Hernandez_Ant=FAnez?=) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:11:38 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Announce. SITPLUS version 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4E0E0001.9080102@crea-si.com> Message-ID: ---------- Mensaje reenviado ---------- De: José Félix Ontañón Fecha: 3 de julio de 2011 18:30 Asunto: Re: Announce. SITPLUS version 1.0 Para: Cesar Mauri Cc: Luis Rivas Vañó , gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org Hi, Luis Rivas, a collague at my company (i'm puttint him in cc) has made a Launchpad PPA for delivering Ubuntu 10.04 10.10 11.04 binary packages. https://launchpad.net/~luinix/+archive/sitplus If you're using one of this Ubuntu versions it could be as easy to install as: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:luinix/sitplus sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sitplus I hope it would help people testing Sitplus. Kind Regards. -- http://fontanon.org -- Javier Hernández Antúnez Área de Operaciones Emergya Consultoría Tlfno: +34 954 51 75 77 Fax: +34 954 51 64 73 http://www.emergya.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mk.seventhson at gmail.com Thu Jul 7 15:18:36 2011 From: mk.seventhson at gmail.com (mk360) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:18:36 -0400 Subject: Speakup on ubuntu 11.4 Message-ID: <4E15CE4C.1040202@gmail.com> Hi, I'm trying to install speakup under my ubuntu 11.4 but I can't... here is my log what can I do?. sp.txt Script iniciado (vie 01 jul 2011 12:31:53 CLT )]0;root at Seventhson: /home/mk360root at Seventhson:/home/mk360# sapt-get install speakup Leyendo lista de paquetes... 0% Leyendo lista de paquetes... 0% Leyendo lista de paquetes... 6% Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias... 0% Creando árbol de dependencias... 0% Creando árbol de dependencias... 50% Creando árbol de dependencias... 50% Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... 0% Leyendo la información de estado... 0% Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS: speakup 0 actualizados, 1 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados. Se necesita descargar 0 B/69,0 kB de archivos. Se utilizarán 434 kB de espacio de disco adicional después de esta operación. Seleccionando el paquete speakup previamente no seleccionado. (Leyendo la base de datos ... (Leyendo la base de datos ... 5% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 10% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 15% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 20% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 25% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 30% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 35% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 40% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 45% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 50% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 55% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 60% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 65% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 70% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 75% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 80% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 85% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 90% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 95% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 100% (Leyendo la base de datos ... 143046 ficheros o directorios instalados actualmente.) Desempaquetando speakup (de .../speakup_3.1.5.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Configurando speakup (3.1.5.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1) ... Loading new speakup-3.1.5.dfsg.1 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 2.6.38-8-generic-pae Building initial module for 2.6.38-8-generic-pae Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.38-8-generic-pae (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/ for more information. ]0;root at Seventhson: /home/mk360root at Seventhson:/home/mk360# exit exit Script terminado (vie 01 jul 2011 12:32:19 CLT ) /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/make.log DKMS make.log for speakup-3.1.5.dfsg.1 for kernel 2.6.38-8-generic-pae (i686) vie jul 1 12:32:07 CLT 2011 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` `cat allmodule.mk` make[1]: se ingresa al directorio «/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae» LD /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/built-in.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_acntsa.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_acntpc.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_apollo.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_audptr.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_bns.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_dectlk.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_decext.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_dtlk.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_keypc.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_ltlk.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_soft.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_spkout.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_txprt.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/speakup_dummy.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.o /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c: In function ‘speakup_start_ttys’: /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c:33:46: error: ‘struct vc_data’ has no member named ‘vc_tty’ /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c:34:26: error: ‘struct vc_data’ has no member named ‘vc_tty’ /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c: In function ‘speakup_stop_ttys’: /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c:46:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘kernel_locked’ /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c:56:46: error: ‘struct vc_data’ has no member named ‘vc_tty’ /var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.c:57:25: error: ‘struct vc_data’ has no member named ‘vc_tty’ make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build/buffers.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/speakup/3.1.5.dfsg.1/build] Error 2 make[1]: se sale del directorio «/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae» make: *** [modules] Error 2 Regards, mk. From samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org Thu Jul 7 15:27:12 2011 From: samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org (Samuel Thibault) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:27:12 +0200 Subject: Speakup on ubuntu 11.4 In-Reply-To: <4E15CE4C.1040202@gmail.com> References: <4E15CE4C.1040202@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20110707152712.GT3882@const.labri.fr> Hello, mk360, le Thu 07 Jul 2011 11:18:36 -0400, a écrit : > DKMS make.log for speakup-3.1.5.dfsg.1 for kernel 2.6.38-8-generic-pae For recent versions of linux, you do not need to install speakup, it is already provided in Linux itself. Simply modprobe speakup_ltlk for instance, and voila. Samuel From hammera at pickup.hu Fri Jul 8 04:03:36 2011 From: hammera at pickup.hu (Hammer Attila) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:03:36 +0200 Subject: A question for Oneiric Lightdm login manager related Message-ID: <4E168198.7050505@pickup.hu> Hy, Luke, in Oneiric the Gdm login manager is replaced now in Alpha2 with Lightdm login manager. Lightdm will be support accessible login for Orca before final Oneiric development cicle, or better chance support this function with next LTS release? Attila From hammera at pickup.hu Fri Jul 8 04:15:58 2011 From: hammera at pickup.hu (Hammer Attila) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:15:58 +0200 Subject: A proglem for Orca launch with yesterday Oneiric daily live CD Message-ID: <4E16847E.9000805@pickup.hu> Hy, Luke, if I booted with yesterday downloaded Oneiric daily live CD using with access=v3 boot parameter, if I manual launch Orca, Orca presenting the text setup window. Not happening this problem because /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf property is not setting with live session automaticaly? If I switch text console, manual enabling this property and restart Lightdm login manager, Orca running correct if I launch manual. In the gnome-orca package the debian/patches directory containing a gconf related patch, the patch name is 04_use_gconf.patch. If I known right, original Orca 3.0 and 3.1 upstream versions using gsettings to determining accessibility related service are enabled or not. Need the /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf key setting for other non gtk3 applications to prowide accessibility related informations (for example Firefox)? Attila From tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk Fri Jul 8 08:03:15 2011 From: tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk (Tony Sales) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:03:15 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: <58C326E7D5A7B84190C31DE21721FF1D269AC13C@MAIL1.rncb.ac.uk> Vinux 3.2.1 is now available for download in 32/64bit in CD/DVD versions. The main difference between this and the recently released Vinux 3.2 is that by default it boots with Pulseaudio running in 'user' mode rather than 'system' mode. This prevents pulseaudio from crashing at boot on a small number of sound cards, but it means that speakup is not available from the live CD or immediately after installation. However there are now two simple commands for switching Pulseaudio from user to system mode in conjunction with a reboot of the machine. This version also includes an accessible zenity front end for Unetbootin which allows users to install Vinux to a USB pendrive with persistent storage. Users who have already installed Vinux 3.2 can upgrade to this version quite easily without having to reinstall. Tony Sales From milton at tomaatnet.nl Fri Jul 8 15:13:00 2011 From: milton at tomaatnet.nl (Milton) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 17:13:00 +0200 Subject: talking login screen in Maverick References: <4A6BE44162814D12A317BC61D026BC5F@milton> <4E1694EF.2050304@gmail.com> Message-ID: <7275A9BE799142B188AFA77D77EC4018@milton> Many many thanks, it works great!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Burt Henry To: Milton Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 7:26 AM Subject: Re: talking login screen in Maverick the gdm info needs to be copied as follows d when you upgrade orca. Here're the commands to get Orca talking again on the login screen. Do all of this in the terminal. Replace username with your sudo user name. cd /var/lib sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca sudo cp -r /home/username/.local/share/orca/* /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca/ sudo chown --recursive gdm: /var/lib/gdm/.local Then restart your system. B.H. P.S. this is a a a separte ap, , so you can adjust speech rate, voice etc with normal Orca prefs before logging in and get things speeded up, or customized as your friend likes. On 07/07/2011 03:20 AM, Milton wrote: Hi, Months ago I installed with success Maverick with speech enabled and I got a talking login screen. For a friend who already installed Maverick without speech he also wants a talking screen. Is it possible to do so? Can you give me advice or instructions how to do that? He has Orca 3.1.3-xdesktop running. I went into System > Preferences > Accessibility but could not figure out how to let the login screen talks. Thanks in advance. Milton can he -- *the above was probably written by- Burt Henry (registered Linux-user 521,886) Contact Info: *email, GTalk&AIM- (burt1iband at gmail.com) *Follow Me on Twitter- @BurtHenry *and I'm on Facebook* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mj at mjw.se Fri Jul 8 16:29:48 2011 From: mj at mjw.se (mattias) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:29:48 +0200 Subject: ubuntu 11.10 Message-ID: <1310142588.21281.0.camel@debian> anyone tryed the alpha? From mj at mjw.se Fri Jul 8 19:46:22 2011 From: mj at mjw.se (mattias) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:46:22 +0200 Subject: ubuntu 11.10 Message-ID: <1310154382.9221.1.camel@debian> i now played litle with ubunt 11.10 but seems inpossible to switc from unity to gnome or?? the command login no longer work From cjk at teamcharliesangels.com Fri Jul 8 20:55:01 2011 From: cjk at teamcharliesangels.com (Charlie Kravetz) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:55:01 -0600 Subject: ubuntu 11.10 In-Reply-To: <1310154382.9221.1.camel@debian> References: <1310154382.9221.1.camel@debian> Message-ID: <20110708145501.1b70cd5f@teamcharliesangels.com> On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:46:22 +0200 mattias wrote: > i now played litle with ubunt 11.10 > but seems inpossible to switc from unity to gnome > or?? > the command login no longer work > > Correct. Ubuntu no longer uses gnome for a fallback session. Instead, Oneiric Ocelot (which becomes 11.10 in October) uses Unity 3D as the main session, and Unity 2D as the fallback session. This development is not ready for accessible installs or logins at this time. The change from GDM to LightDM is causing some issues, as is the changes to 2D. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] From mj at mjw.se Fri Jul 8 20:57:27 2011 From: mj at mjw.se (mattias) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:57:27 +0200 Subject: ubuntu 11.10 In-Reply-To: <20110708145501.1b70cd5f@teamcharliesangels.com> References: <1310154382.9221.1.camel@debian> <20110708145501.1b70cd5f@teamcharliesangels.com> Message-ID: <1310158647.28285.0.camel@debian> yes i reed something about gnome 3 fre 2011-07-08 klockan 14:55 -0600 skrev Charlie Kravetz: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:46:22 +0200 > mattias wrote: > > > i now played litle with ubunt 11.10 > > but seems inpossible to switc from unity to gnome > > or?? > > the command login no longer work > > > > > > Correct. Ubuntu no longer uses gnome for a fallback session. Instead, > Oneiric Ocelot (which becomes 11.10 in October) uses Unity 3D as the > main session, and Unity 2D as the fallback session. This development is > not ready for accessible installs or logins at this time. The change > from GDM to LightDM is causing some issues, as is the changes to 2D. > > -- > Charlie Kravetz > Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] > Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] > From tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk Sat Jul 9 22:54:49 2011 From: tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk (Tony Sales) Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:49 +0000 Subject: Vinux Survey Message-ID: <58C326E7D5A7B84190C31DE21721FF1D269AC565@MAIL1.rncb.ac.uk> I have set up a survey to collect feedback from people who use or have tried Vinux. I created using LimeSurvey and it seems to be very accessible with Orca. There are thirty questions in total and all of these are mandatory apart from the last question which allows you to provide any additional feedback not covered in the previous 29 questions. I would also like feedback on the survey design as this is the first time I have installed LimeSurvey on my server and I am still learning the ropes as it were. You can only submit your answers once, allthough you can choose to save what you have done and finish it later on, and you can cancel the survey at any time. I have thrown a few curve-balls in there to keep you on your toes. The submissions are completely anonymous and the results will be publically published. I have set it up so that anyone can respond with no registration necessary, however if we get a lot of spam and or abusive entries I will change this setting. Have fun. You can find the survey here: http://www.vinux.org.uk/survey/ drbongo From CDAC-Mumbai at cdacmumbai.in Thu Jul 14 05:25:20 2011 From: CDAC-Mumbai at cdacmumbai.in (CDAC-Mumbai at cdacmumbai.in) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:55:20 +0530 Subject: Call For Participation In [Accessibility & FOSS Adoption in Education] Workshops at C-DAC Mumbai Message-ID: <7704521.0.1310621027350.JavaMail.samba@cmk-ossd-samba> Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: call for participation. It gives us, at CDAC, Mumbai, immense pleasure to inform you that CDAC, Mumbai is organising two workshops titled “National Workshop on FOSS Desktop Accessibility” & 'National Workshop on FOSS Adoption in Education” during August 26-27, 2011 as a part of National Resource Centre for Free & Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) – Phase II initiative. “National Workshop on FOSS Desktop Accessibility” on August 26, 2011 will focus on exploring the current trends in the field of accessibility particularly with regard to FOSS. As you may be aware a large section of the society comprising people with different kinds of disabilities finds it difficult to use ICT in the same way as normal people do for fulfilling different purposes. It is very much required to provide such people with assistive technologies that make their interaction with computers more user-friendly and accessible. This workshop intends to serve as a platform to encourage the use of FOSS tools and techniques in creating assistive technologies that are free-of- cost, available to all, easily maintainable etc. for such a large portion of population in a country like India. The workshop will also like to leverage the experiences of all stakeholders to identify and address the issues in those areas of accessibility that are still untouched. Similarly, “National Workshop on FOSS Adoption in Education”, on August 27, 2011 is intended to explore the benefits, role, and developments of technology, specifically FOSS, in education. FOSS provides softwares that are free of cost, easily maintainable, community support, customization freedom, etc. Various FOSS tools in education will be demonstrated in the workshop. The participants will also get to experience the work of C-DAC Mumbai in promoting technology/ FOSS in education. The workshop will provide an opportunity to interact with participants from different organizations and industry practitioners. The workshop will involve keynote and invited lectures by distinguished researchers and/or professionals. We take this opportunity to extend you an invitation for participation in these workshops. Looking forward to see you or your representative at the event. Kindly use the following URLs to access more details about the workshops: 1.National wrokshop on FOSS Desktop Accessibility: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/ news_and_events/national_workshop_on_foss_desktop_accessibility 2.National Workshop on FOSS Adoption in Education: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/ news_and_events/national_workshop_on_foss_adoption_in_education Thanking you, Dr. M. Sasikumar Director (R&D) C-DAC :: Disclaimer :: The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you should return it to the sender immediately. Please note that while we scan all e-mails for viruses we cannot guarantee that any e-mail is virus-free and accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. From david at rustytelephone.net Tue Jul 26 06:45:22 2011 From: david at rustytelephone.net (David Sexton) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:15:22 +0530 Subject: orca, capslock in 11.04 In-Reply-To: <1310158647.28285.0.camel@debian> References: <1310154382.9221.1.camel@debian> <20110708145501.1b70cd5f@teamcharliesangels.com> <1310158647.28285.0.camel@debian> Message-ID: <4E2E6282.6070607@rustytelephone.net> Hi, Using laptop layout in ubuntu 11.04 when I use capslock+keys it changes capslock state on or off. How do I stop this? From CDAC-Mumbai at cdacmumbai.in Tue Jul 26 19:46:43 2011 From: CDAC-Mumbai at cdacmumbai.in (CDAC-Mumbai at cdacmumbai.in) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:16:43 +0530 Subject: Call For Participation: Accessibility & FOSS Adoption in Education Workshops at CDAC Mumbai Message-ID: <7709504.2017.1311709526543.JavaMail.samba@cmk-ossd-samba> Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: call for participation. It gives us, at CDAC, Mumbai, immense pleasure to inform you that CDAC, Mumbai is organising two workshops titled “National Workshop on FOSS Desktop Accessibility” & 'National Workshop on FOSS Adoption in Education” during August 26-27, 2011 as a part of National Resource Centre for Free & Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) – Phase II initiative. “National Workshop on FOSS Desktop Accessibility” on August 26, 2011 will focus on exploring the current trends in the field of accessibility particularly with regard to FOSS. As you may be aware a large section of the society comprising people with different kinds of disabilities finds it difficult to use ICT in the same way as normal people do for fulfilling different purposes. It is very much required to provide such people with assistive technologies that make their interaction with computers more user-friendly and accessible. This workshop intends to serve as a platform to encourage the use of FOSS tools and techniques in creating assistive technologies that are free-of- cost, available to all, easily maintainable etc. for such a large portion of population in a country like India. The workshop will also like to leverage the experiences of all stakeholders to identify and address the issues in those areas of accessibility that are still untouched. Similarly, “National Workshop on FOSS Adoption in Education”, on August 27, 2011 is intended to explore the benefits, role, and developments of technology, specifically FOSS, in education. FOSS provides softwares that are free of cost, easily maintainable, community support, customization freedom, etc. Various FOSS tools in education will be demonstrated in the workshop. The participants will also get to experience the work of C-DAC Mumbai in promoting technology/ FOSS in education. The workshop will provide an opportunity to interact with participants from different organizations and industry practitioners. The workshop will involve keynote and invited lectures by distinguished researchers and/or professionals. We take this opportunity to extend you an invitation for participation in these workshops. Looking forward to see you or your representative at the event. Please find attached registration form and workshop brochures. 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Name: accesssibility_workshop_brochure.gif Type: application/octet-stream Size: 393255 bytes Desc: not available URL: From themuso at ubuntu.com Tue Jul 26 23:37:22 2011 From: themuso at ubuntu.com (Luke Yelavich) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:37:22 +1000 Subject: orca, capslock in 11.04 In-Reply-To: <4E2E6282.6070607@rustytelephone.net> References: <1310154382.9221.1.camel@debian> <20110708145501.1b70cd5f@teamcharliesangels.com> <1310158647.28285.0.camel@debian> <4E2E6282.6070607@rustytelephone.net> Message-ID: <20110726233722.GA17292@acapella.yelavich.home> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:45:22PM EST, David Sexton wrote: > Hi, > Using laptop layout in ubuntu 11.04 when I use capslock+keys it > changes capslock state on or off. > How do I stop this? Yes, this problem is known, however nobody knows how to fix it yet, probably because nobody is looking. I'd like ot try and address this ASAP, so intend to try and find some time to dig deeper into this problem that is also affecting Ubuntu 11.10. If a fix is found, 11.04 will be given the fix also. Luke From martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu Wed Jul 27 13:09:22 2011 From: martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:09:22 -0500 Subject: ubuntu Sound Issues with Early 2000's Dell Desktop Message-ID: <201107271309.p6RD9M3X081070@x.it.okstate.edu> I wrote the list and corresponded with a few off list a few weeks ago about how the sound is dead on a 2004-vintage Dell tower system which otherwise is in working order and has 1.1 gigabytes of RAM and a 2.7 gigabyte Pentium 4 processor. In other words, no good reason to not work. The sound system works on older distributions such as the Vinux2.x distribution from 2009 and I even got orca to intermittently talk from ubuntu9.10, but everything current and useful is as mute as a stone. If I were to install ubuntu 11.04 via a serial console, would this give me the same operating environment for sound that I get from all those dead live CD's such as the latest Vinux3.2 and ubuntu11.04? I would then be able to poke and prod and maybe find out what is not being enabled for sound to work. The sound card shows that it is on and the volume is set to an appropriate value. One simply never hears anything either sounds from the booting process or the screen reader. There is not so much as a pop from the speakers. My deer patient wife can only stand just so much of looking at the kind of screens that tell us useful things about loafing sound systems, etc. I might have to install pulseaudio manually on such a system, but if it is true to form from the live CD, it will install and just not do anything. Except for the first audio experiments in Linux about ten years ago, this has been pure frustration. Everything works if it is obsolete but not now on the good stuff. That system will scream along if I ever get sound. Thanks for any tips. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group From martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu Wed Jul 27 13:15:03 2011 From: martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:15:03 -0500 Subject: ubuntu Sound Issues with Early 2000's Dell Desktop Message-ID: <201107271315.p6RDF3VX081137@x.it.okstate.edu> Martin McCormick writes: > My deer patient wife can only stand just so much of > looking at the kind of screens that tell us useful things about > loafing sound systems, etc. My spelling sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. I didn't notice that until I had posted. she is dear and does not rob people's gardens. From frederik.elwert at web.de Sat Jul 30 12:22:59 2011 From: frederik.elwert at web.de (Frederik Elwert) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:22:59 +0200 Subject: Build a speech generating device Message-ID: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> Hello, a close relative of mine suffers from ALS, a motor neuron disease which leads to the inability to speak as well as general immobility. Since there are only few speech generating devices (SGDs) available on the market, and those are as limited as they are expensive, I plan to build a custom SGD using a tablet computer as a basis and applying available free software components. Since I am not (yet) very much into the field of accessibility techniques, I hope to get some hints from the community regarding the best suited components for this project. The primary components I identified to be necessary are * a virtual keyboard with word prediction * pre-defined text snippets * a speech synthesizer backend (for German language output) * a frontend to the speech synthesizer For the speech synthesizer, I currently plan to use OpenMary[1], since its output quality is significantly better than espeak’s, even with mbrola voices. For the speech synthesizer frontend, I plan to either adapt gespeaker, adding OpenMary support and as-you-type playback, or build a custom solution. The pre-defined text snippets could either be built into the virtual keyboard (as onboard does), or into the speech synthesizer frontend. So currently the field on which I need most advice is the field of virtual keyboards. I tried to evaluate the available options, and there is quite a lot of information scattered across the internet, but for me it was quite difficult to get information about the usability and state of the different projects. Currently, I found these projects which might be worth to evaluate: * Caribou, as the future GNOME virtual keyboard of choice. There was effort to integrate presage as a prediction engine, but I am not sure about the state of this effort. * OnBoard, which is the current Ubuntu solution and for which a branch with prediction support exists. But here too, I am not sure about the state of this branch. * Maliit, as the MeeGo solution, which seems to be quite solid, but prediction support would have to be added (and might also use presage). * OpenAdaptxt, which has a prediction engine as its core, but I am unsure if this is already a usable solution or an evolving project with a mere basis for future development. * Dasher, as a complete different approach. I might be a good replacement for a regular virtual keyboard once mobility decreases to a level where a regular keyboard is hard to handle. But it seems not to be very well maintained, it’s quite unstable and I did not manage to get all of its functionality working I would be glad if someone could give me hints about your impressions as to which of the available solutions is the most usable and matches my requirements. Of course, I’m also happy about any hints and advice regarding the topic in general, about experiences with SGDs, etc. Thanks, Frederik P.S.: I cross-posted this message to gnome-accessibility-list and ubuntu-accessibility, since I am interested in feedback from both communities. I hope this is okay. I am not into project politics, I am just searching for an available solution that can help me achieve what I am aiming at. [1] http://mary.dfki.de/ From frederik.elwert at web.de Sat Jul 30 14:39:02 2011 From: frederik.elwert at web.de (Frederik Elwert) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:39:02 +0200 Subject: Build a speech generating device In-Reply-To: <20110730135936.GB31213@mrao.cam.ac.uk> References: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> <20110730135936.GB31213@mrao.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <1312036742.1736.15.camel@frederik-hp> Dear Patrick, Am Samstag, den 30.07.2011, 14:59 +0100 schrieb Patrick Welche: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:59PM +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote: > > * Dasher, as a complete different approach. I might be a good > > replacement for a regular virtual keyboard once mobility > > decreases to a level where a regular keyboard is hard to handle. > > But it seems not to be very well maintained, it???s quite unstable > > and I did not manage to get all of its functionality working > > I'm sorry to hear this - please let me know what problems you are having... With the version in the Ubuntu repository I couldn’t get speech output working, and the direct mode was unreliable (only few of the characters were actually passed to the target application). > We have already put together dasher running on android writing into > talkadroid to provide mobile speech generation (both available from > the android market place). > > The most recent dasher in the git repository > (git clone git://git.gnome.org/dasher) will use speechdispatcher or > gnome speech if it is installed on your system, and in combination > with "control mode" will speak what you write. Okay, that sounds interesting. I’ll try out the latest code, maybe it already solves the issues I had. Otherwise, I’ll report back. In the documentation for dasher[1], it sais that it’s also possible to speak each word or on stop, not just in control mode. But I didn’t find any way to configure that. (But since control mode already failed, I didn’t investigate further.) I also just found a blog article that describes how to set up OpenMary as a speechdispatcher module.[2] That would probably allow to integrate dasher with OpenMary easily. On the other hand, if I write a speech synthesis frontend for normal keyboard use anyway, I might also just use dasher for text input and leave the rest to that application. I’ll see what works best. Thanks, Frederik [1] http://library.gnome.org/users/dasher/unstable/reallife.html.en [2] http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/05/05/speak-to-me/ From frederik.elwert at web.de Sat Jul 30 14:49:54 2011 From: frederik.elwert at web.de (Frederik Elwert) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:49:54 +0200 Subject: Build a speech generating device In-Reply-To: References: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> Message-ID: <1312037394.1736.24.camel@frederik-hp> Hi Justin, (I’m cc’ing the lists, as this might be valuable information for others. Hope that’s okay.) Am Samstag, den 30.07.2011, 09:50 -0400 schrieb Justin Duperre: > Hi Frederik - I briefly worked on GNOME Caribou for a senior project > in college. I am not sure of the state of presage integration, but > what I can tell you is that a lot of work has been done on Caribou > lately. In the past six months there have been major contributions to > the code. It would definitely be a good choice for your project as the > team is very active. Yes, I also saw that in the course of GNOME 3 Caribou got a lot of attention. Since I couldn’t find an official release, I was just wondering how far this is from completion, so that one can actually start using it, and if word prediction was just an experiment or part of the recent development efforts. > I have also used Dasher, and I agree with everything you said about > it. I think both cover slightly different usage scenarios, so it’d be great to have both available. > Are you planning on making this a public open source project? Currently, I’m only doing a bit of research. My primary aim is to use existing and stable software. But the parts I might end up writing myself will be open source. I think primarily of an improved gespeaker, or a new speechd frontend. (Having OpenMary support in speechd will probably make things much easier.) Besides actually writing code, I am planning to document the project, so that others can benefit from my findings and experience. Regards, Frederik From alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com Sat Jul 30 16:37:03 2011 From: alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com (Alan Bell) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:37:03 +0100 Subject: Build a speech generating device In-Reply-To: <1312036742.1736.15.camel@frederik-hp> References: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> <20110730135936.GB31213@mrao.cam.ac.uk> <1312036742.1736.15.camel@frederik-hp> Message-ID: <4E34332F.10406@theopenlearningcentre.com> On 30/07/11 15:39, Frederik Elwert wrote: > I also just found a blog article that describes how to set up OpenMary > as a speechdispatcher module.[2] That would probably allow to integrate > dasher with OpenMary easily. I wrote that article, give me a shout or find me in #ubuntu-accessibility on freenode if you want any help setting it up. Alan. -- The Open Learning Centre is rebranding, find out about our new name and look at http://libertus.co.uk From hgs at dmu.ac.uk Sat Jul 30 16:45:18 2011 From: hgs at dmu.ac.uk (Hugh Sasse) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:45:18 +0100 (BST) Subject: Build a speech generating device In-Reply-To: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> References: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> Message-ID: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Frederik Elwert wrote: > there are only few speech generating devices (SGDs) available on the > market, and those are as limited as they are expensive, I plan to build > a custom SGD using a tablet computer as a basis and applying available I don't know about the hardware. I knew people who used Texas Instruments chips, but I don't expect they'd include all the German phonemes. > The primary components I identified to be necessary are > > * a virtual keyboard with word prediction OK, the only one I know of is Dasher, which you have found. The inference group have a thing called Tapir, which is designed for on screen text entry like "texting". I don't think it will do all the symbols on the keyboard, but it is at http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/tapir/ It didn't seem to be a quick way of getting text in, but for people with low mobility it may have some use. In the book "Beautiful Code" [Andy Oram, Greg Wison, O'Reilly, 2007, ISBN:9780596510046] Chapter 30 "When a button is all that connects you to the world" discusses the software used by Professor Hawking. It claims the download is at http://holisticit.com/eLocutor/elocutorv3.htm although I can find nothing useful there. The search engines take me to http://hawking.sourceforge.net/ and it appears that the download is available as an executable or a Zip file, so I suspect it is Windows only. For prediction there is also Presage http://presage.sourceforge.net/ which is really a library, so could be attached to something else. It does have some wxPython demos, which I can't get working [on Cygwin], though your experience on Linux could well be better. Way back, there used to be a program called reactivekbd, which was a predictive text entry system that could be used from the shell. It seems to be here: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume20/reactivekbd/ I had that working under Sunos 4., but have not retried recently. The dasher project does have the Tcl/Tk dasher which may still be useful if you can't get the rest to build and work, but that ought to reasonably easy to connect to the HTTP interface of OpenMary. > * pre-defined text snippets > * a speech synthesizer backend (for German language output) I think espeak supports German, but I'm not in a position to comment on the quality. http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ > * a frontend to the speech synthesizer Both OpenMary and Espeak have front ends you can type into. The OpenMary example client is in Java, and there is a Ruby one and a Python one in the repository now. They will need more work for non-Windows: lots of choices for sound on Linux. > > For the speech synthesizer, I currently plan to use OpenMary[1], since > its output quality is significantly better than espeak?s, even with > mbrola voices. I think they are dropping mbrola voices because they need a non-java backend for it, and they mostly have prosody working now. See Msg Id: 4DA410AD.8040403 at dfki.de posted to Mary-users on 12 APR 2011. > > For the speech synthesizer frontend, I plan to either adapt gespeaker, I don't know about gespeaker, so I searched, and found this: http://alternativeto.net/software/gespeaker/ thereby finding Kmouth http://www.schmi-dt.de/kmouth/index.en.html which claims to have word completion and a phrase book, as well as history. [The rest trimmed] Hope some of that helps, Hugh From hgs at dmu.ac.uk Sat Jul 30 16:49:22 2011 From: hgs at dmu.ac.uk (Hugh Sasse) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:49:22 +0100 (BST) Subject: Build a speech generating device In-Reply-To: References: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> Message-ID: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Hugh Sasse wrote: > > In the book "Beautiful Code" [Andy Oram, Greg Wison, O'Reilly, 2007, s/Wison/Wilson/ > ISBN:9780596510046] Chapter 30 "When a button is all that connects Hugh From prlw1 at cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 30 13:59:36 2011 From: prlw1 at cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:59:36 +0100 Subject: Build a speech generating device In-Reply-To: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> References: <1312028579.1678.60.camel@frederik-hp> Message-ID: <20110730135936.GB31213@mrao.cam.ac.uk> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:59PM +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote: > * Dasher, as a complete different approach. I might be a good > replacement for a regular virtual keyboard once mobility > decreases to a level where a regular keyboard is hard to handle. > But it seems not to be very well maintained, it???s quite unstable > and I did not manage to get all of its functionality working I'm sorry to hear this - please let me know what problems you are having... We have already put together dasher running on android writing into talkadroid to provide mobile speech generation (both available from the android market place). The most recent dasher in the git repository (git clone git://git.gnome.org/dasher) will use speechdispatcher or gnome speech if it is installed on your system, and in combination with "control mode" will speak what you write. Best wishes, Patrick (dasher maintainer)