[Sugar-devel] [laptop-accessibility] Fwd: screenreader for sugar

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:15, David K Parker <davparker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was sticky keys ever added to this project? That's a core component of
> accessibility. Also, in the future, if touch screens are added, capacitive
> ones will be a poor choice because they don't respond at all to prosthetic
> hands or hooks.

There has been a contribution from Uruguay but they seem to need some
help getting it upstream.

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1669

Anybody interested in joining this effort?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Forwarded to accessibility at lists.laptop.org
>>
>> Forwarded conversation
>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] screenreader for sugar
>> ------------------------
>>
>> From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:16 AM
>> To: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there any interest in a deployment somewhere for a screenreader
>> that allows blind people use the Sugar UI when paired with keyboard
>> navigation?
>>
>> I think most of the pieces are there, but without knowing how it could
>> be used I cannot really test.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
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>> From: pbrobinson at gmail.com <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:07 AM
>> To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> there's speechdispatcher in fedora that is used by kde and gnome and I
>> currently maintain it. It was also at some point used by olpc as the
>> spec file use to have olpc specifics in it. There's been renewed
>> interest with it upstream and I'm working to get it into better shape
>> for F-14 and once its cleaned up I'll push updates back to F-13 and
>> probably F-12.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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>> From: Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:53 AM
>> To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> Yes, there are interest in La Rioja, Argentina. In olpc-sur there are
>> request for this.
>>
>> Gonzalo
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>> From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM
>> To: Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> Great, do we have people there who can try things out and help decide
>> what remains to be done?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
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>> From: Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:57 AM
>> To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> In this thread
>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2010-April/005829.html there are
>> people interested.
>> You can contact Esteban Arias also
>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-uruguay/2010-February/001653.html
>>
>> Gonzalo
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>> From: Esteban Arias <earias at plan.ceibal.edu.uy>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM
>> To: Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> hi,
>> we can colaborate with this proyect.
>>
>> 2010/8/20 Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com>
>>
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>> From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:10 AM
>> To: Esteban Arias <earias at plan.ceibal.edu.uy>
>> Cc: sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>
>>
>> Excelent, have you tried already orca with Sugar? And with GNOME?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
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