http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9192 <pre>Hey all. * Reminder: 2012/05/24 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar Be there or be square! ;) --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-24T02:31:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9189 <pre>Is anyone using a11y support on Linux on ARM? If so, are there any issues? -Pete </pre> Pete Brunet 2012-05-21T17:10:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9188 <pre>Good morning I'm a lurker on this list and the main organizer of the Randa Meetings [1]. In the first two years we had just KDE people there and last year finally two Gnome people (Seif Lotfy and Ryan Lortie). This year one of the meetings will be about a11y in KDE software and Qt and we'd like to have some Gnome people there as well. I know the Gnome world less well but I'm sure you organize some kind of sprints from time to time as well. If you're interested please add yourself to the following doodle where we try to find the date which matches best: http://doodle.com/svghf38ibdg6k9dv And if you've questions don't hesitated to ask. Oh and please forward this mail to lists and persons you think makes sense. griits &amp; thx Mario [1] http://community.kde.org/Sprints/Randa </pre> Mario Fux 2012-05-21T14:46:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9186 <pre>Hey all. The 17th is a bank holiday for some and a vacation day for others. We don't have anything pressing to discuss tomorrow, so.... Unless anyone has any objections, let's cancel tomorrow's meeting and resume next week. Take care. --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-17T03:02:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9180 <pre>============= What is Orca? ============= Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and refreshable braille. You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ========================= What's Changed in 3.4.2? ========================= General * Fix for bug 675522 - incorrect comment for translators * Prevent gnome-shell notifications from being double-presented * Try to handle metacity timeouts more gracefully * Fix for bug 674237 - More unicode errors found with hungarian locale * Fix for bug 674693 - Modifier keys pressed alone should interrupt speech * Prevent Orca from interrupting speech in Anaconda trees Where can I get it? =================== http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.4/orca-3.4.2.tar.xz Enjoy! </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-14T22:29:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9179 <pre>Dear reader, A new release of mousetweaks is available; the version number is 3.4.2. It can be downloaded from: http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/3.4/ Direct download link: http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/3.4/mousetweaks-3.4.2.tar.xz (1.94M) sha256sum: 7f8a6ae627edae12e0d5b92926c33191bfa504c1ccaf51195051681aedfa700c ===================== What is mousetweaks ? ===================== Mousetweaks is a package that provides mouse accessibility enhancements for the GNOME desktop. These enhancements are: 1. It offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any hardware button. (Hover Click) 2. It allows users to perform a secondary click by keeping the primary mousebutton pressed for a determined amount of time. (Simulated Secondary Click) These enhancements can be accessed through the Universal Access panel in the GNOME Control Center or through the command-line interface. =================== Distribution Notes: =================== Mousetweaks is implemented as a daemon that only runs when one of its features has been enabled. Apart the click-type window that can be used to control the type of the next simulated click, there is no graphical user interface shipping with mousetweaks. Distributions can create their own graphical user interface matching their desktop and use dbus to completely control mousetweaks. ============================= What is new in this release ? ============================= New and updated translations: [id] Andika Triwidada Many thanks to all contributors. Best regards, The MouseTweaks team </pre> Francesco Fumanti 2012-05-14T19:50:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9177 <pre>Hey all. * Reminder: 2012/05/10 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar Be there or be square! ;) --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-10T02:14:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9173 <pre>Are there people with backgrounds in accessibility development working with the Wayland project? In particular, the accessibility infrastructure will need to be fully supported on systems that run Wayland without an X server. The latest Wayland update that I've read mentions keyboard handling as one of the aspects of Wayland development that is still in flux, hence there may be opportunities for those who understand the requirements of AT-SPI 2, Orca etc. in this area to make their requirements known before the relevant APIs are set. http://lwn.net/Articles/491509/ I know that it will remain possible to run X as a Wayland client, but, given the current thinking of X and Wayland developers, the norm will be for desktop environments to use Wayland directly without an X server. </pre> Jason White 2012-05-07T02:58:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9172 <pre>Hey all. As discussed during last week's team meeting, Shaun is organizing the Open Help Conference [1] and would like our input. I have created a "brainstorming" page on our wiki [2] so folks can jot down ideas. Please add your thoughts. Thanks and take care. --joanie [1] http://http//openhelpconference.com [2] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/AccessibleHelp </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-03T15:06:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9171 <pre>Hey all. * Reminder: 2012/05/03 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar Be there or be square! ;) --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-03T03:10:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9170 <pre>============= What is Orca? ============= Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and refreshable braille. You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ========================= What's Changed in 3.5.1? ========================= News ==== General * Prevent gnome-shell notifications from being double-presented * Try to handle metacity timeouts more gracefully * Fix for bug 674237 - More unicode errors found with hungarian locale * Fix for bug 674693 - Modifier keys pressed alone should interrupt speech * Prevent Orca from interrupting speech in Anaconda trees New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): cs Czech Marek Černocký gl Galician Fran Diéguez nb Norwegian bokmål Kjartan Maraas sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič te Telugu Sasi Bhushan Where can I get it? =================== http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.5/orca-3.5.1.tar.xz Enjoy! </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-04-30T23:23:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9168 <pre>Hey all. * Reminder: 2012/04/25 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar Be there or be square! ;) --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-04-25T20:44:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9167 <pre>Hey all. * Reminder: 2012/04/19 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings * Reminder: Add your agenda items prior to the meeting * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar Be there or be square! ;) --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-04-18T14:53:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9160 <pre>This query is about accessibility of LibreOffice writer document. If this is not the right place for this post, please forgive me and suggest a suitable forum. I am exploring a LibreOffice writer document using Accerciser. LibreOffice window: I am at the top of the multipage writer document. Only the first five paragraphs are visible on the screen. Accerciser window: The tree of accessibles shows only five paragraphs. I store references to the five paragraphs in variables p1, p2, p3, p4, p5 (by giving commands p1=acc, p2=acc, ... in the &lt;http://etc.in&gt; ipython console). Now p1-p5 hold all information of the five paragraphs. I can get text of the first para with the command 'p1.queryText().getText()'. I can set caret to para 4 with the command 'p4.queryComponent().grabFocus()'. LibreOffice window: I press PgDown key to move to the next page. The first five paragraphs have now moved out of view. Accerciser window: I check p1-p5 again. They have lost almost all information and functionality. Command 'p1.getRole()' returns ROLE_PARAGRAPH. But command 'p1.queryText().characterCount' returns 0. Command 'p4.queryComponent().grabFocus()' returns False. Thus at-spi holds information only for those document elements which are visible on the screen. Can anybody please suggest a way to access the document elements which have moved out of the screen? _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list </pre> Dattatray Bhat 2012-04-17T06:14:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9158 <pre>============= What is Orca? ============= Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and refreshable braille. You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. ========================= What's Changed in 3.4.1? ========================= GNOME 3 * Present the name change of the suspend/power off menu item * Prevent nameless panels from delaying presentation of Top Bar button * Prevent focused objects in gnome-shell dialogs from preempting presentation of the dialog itself * Fix for Empathy active descendant presentation getting incorrectly interrupted * Minor adjustments to get Orca working with Empathy 3.4 * Fix for bug 672461 - Orca now presents the full file list when the file chooser is opened Unity * Fix for bug 673397 - Using flat review while in Unity Greeter makes Orca stop presenting screen contents * Fix for bug 673157 - Unhandled exception when in Unity Greeter * Fix for bug 673648 - Orca does not present Unity 2d indicators correctly in braille Qt * Fix for Orca incorrectly skipping certain menu item events in KMail * Fix for bug 673142 - Unhandled exceptions (GError: No such object path) when using Skype WebKitGtk * Fix for bug 673540 - List and list item structural navigation sometimes fails * Prevent Orca from double-presenting focused links with structural navigation in lists * Fix for bug 672464 - Orca double presents headings which are links * Fix braille rolename presentation * Fix for bug 673757 - Pages with alt attribute present, but not actually set, results in traceback * Fix a UnicodeWarning Gecko * Fix for bug 673715 - Orca double-echoes keys pressed in Thunderbird address fields * Fix for bug 673567 - List in Firefox preferences dialog not presented LibreOffice * Fix for bug 672787 - Unhandled exceptions from dead accessibles in Calc * Fix for bug 673530 - Orca multi-presents the focused cell's contents when arrowing in Calc * Fix for bug 672953 - Orca is presenting extra "input line frame" announcements in LibreOffice Calc Orca and AT-SPI * Handle the new AT-SPI2 timeout errors * Add additional debugging info to help track down hard-to-reproduce issues * Use os.makedirs instead of os.mkdir if the XDG data home directory doesn't exist * Disable braille monitor if the import fails * Ensure 'orca -t' works even without a Desktop * Fix for bug 673336 - Problems (re)binding commands with Caps_Lock New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!): ca Catalan Jordi Serratosa ca Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando de German Christian Kirbach hu Hungarian Attila Hammer, Gabor Kelemen lt Lithuanian Aurimas ÄŒernius Where can I get it? =================== http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/3.4/orca-3.4.1.tar.xz Enjoy! </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-04-17T00:43:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9157 <pre>We're happy to announce Accerciser v3.4.1 What is Accerciser? ================ Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI2 to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a simple plugin framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information. You can read more about Accerciser at http://live.gnome.org/Accerciser. What's new ========= - Fix for bug 673782 - Accerciser does not fully load in F17 New And Updated Translations ========================= - Carles Ferrando (ca&lt; at &gt;valencia) - Chandan Kumar (hi) - Gil Forcada (ca) - Bruno Brouard (fr) Where can I get it ? =============== You can obtain Accerciser v3.4.1 in source code form at the following: http://download.gnome.org/sources/accerciser/3.4/accerciser-3.4.1.tar.xz sha256sum: 7f8deef3129060c5103f43bb94e29723747060c8feb5bb66a278ae48c44b3030 -- Javier Hernández Antúnez &lt;jhernandez&lt; at &gt;emergya.com&gt; </pre> Javier Hernández Antúnez 2012-04-16T20:54:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9156 <pre>Dear reader, A new release of mousetweaks is available; the version number is 3.4.1. It can be downloaded from: http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/3.4/ Direct download link: http://download.gnome.org/sources/mousetweaks/3.4/mousetweaks-3.4.1.tar.xz (1.94M) sha256sum: 92571119dd0ee0c74e508bb8155b7b894c5185da52753fa431bb12e9bfe10c6f ===================== What is mousetweaks ? ===================== Mousetweaks is a package that provides mouse accessibility enhancements for the GNOME desktop. These enhancements are: 1. It offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any hardware button. (Hover Click) 2. It allows users to perform a secondary click by keeping the primary mousebutton pressed for a determined amount of time. (Simulated Secondary Click) These enhancements can be accessed through the Universal Access panel in the GNOME Control Center or through the command-line interface. =================== Distribution Notes: =================== Mousetweaks is implemented as a daemon that only runs when one of its features has been enabled. Apart the click-type window that can be used to control the type of the next simulated click, there is no graphical user interface shipping with mousetweaks. Distributions can create their own graphical user interface matching their desktop and use dbus to completely control mousetweaks. ============================= What is new in this release ? ============================= New and updated translations: [an] Daniel Martinez [hi] chandankumar [lt] Aurimas Černius Many thanks to all contributors. Best regards, The MouseTweaks team _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list </pre> Francesco Fumanti 2012-04-16T13:11:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9154 <pre>This year, Ohio Linux Fest will be held in Columbus, Ohio September 28-30. I initially thought about proposing my "A11y: Its about you!" talk, but after reading the OLF website, knowing their interests in promoting open A11y, and seeing how people commented about a11y at Indiana Linux Fest last weekend, I thought... Why not go for something bigger this time? Go for the bang! My proposal: 1. We set up a very large booth that isn't focused on any one organization, but rather on open a11y in general. Booth staff would include reps from GNOME, Mozilla, FSF, Oracle, etc. Hands on demonstrations of what our software can do. 2. Propose more advanced talks, such as "How you can test to ensure your software is accessible," or "how to deploy a11y software in your environment." (I get asked this a lot!) My "It's about you!" talk really is more an introduction/marketing talk. It's good, but doesn't do enough to get more people to pay attention to a11y in their own development. 3. Organize a hacksession, perhaps either one of our traditional "fix what's broken in a11y" events, or "fix what's accessibly-broken in non a11y-software." OLF has a community day on Friday which is more focused on workshops and whatnot. An ideal day to set up hacksessions before the main event on Saturday. I think given the combined resources of the various organizations and that a number of a11y contributors live somewhat close to Ohio, we could make a good go of this. And potentially make this a blueprint for organizing similar events around the world. Getting more people aware, interested, and involved, is a good thing, IMO. It would also create an opportunity to invite local agencies, school districts, etc. that work with people of various abilities. A plus for us to demonstrate our awesomeness to target audiences, and a plus for the event host to increase attendance to their show. I'm not proposing we do this instead of traditional dotOrg booths. For example, if GNOME community plans to have a booth, they should still do so. But we would be creating a traveling "A11y Center" of which GNOME would be a "consortium" member. Frankly, I think this would be a more likely success-story outcome than at places like CSUN conference. Thoughts? Bryen M Yunashko </pre> Bryen M Yunashko 2012-04-15T23:41:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9153 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Today I released OCRFeeder version 0.7.9. What is OCRFeeder ================== OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system. Given the images it will automatically outline its contents, distinguish between what's graphics and text and perform OCR over the latter. It generates multiple formats being its main one ODT. It features a complete GTK+ GUI that allows users to correct any unrecognized characters, define or correct bounding boxes, set paragraph styles, clean the input images, import PDFs, save and load the project, export everything to multiple formats, etc. Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/OCRFeeder Main changes in this version ============================= Bug Fixes - ---------- * Fix issue with the engines migration when there is no configuration folder * Remove the migration information for engines that do not need so Improvements - ------------- * Remove the warning dialog about the engines' arguments auto update * Make the OCR engines' configuration warning more understandable New and Updated Translations - ----------------------------- * Marek Černocký [cz] * Joe Hansen [da] * Fran Diéguez [gl] Where to find OCRFeeder ======================== Git: http://git.gnome.org/browse/ocrfeeder/ Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ocrfeeder Tarball: http://download.gnome.org/sources/ocrfeeder/0.7/ocrfeeder-0.7.9.tar.xz First announcement: http://www.joaquimrocha.com/2012/04/12/ocrfeeder-0-7-9-released/ Enjoy, - -- Joaquim Rocha http://www.igalia.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+GjvsACgkQIgndpmrKbT7+xQCfd6Be8HEpdiAUihC+YdtWnKS2 Na8An3kJttsDGI6M2ut8zNCZXafSwplH =wkjH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list </pre> Joaquim Rocha 2012-04-12T08:14:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9151 <pre>Hey all. Reminder: 2012/04/12 16:00 CET a11y weekly meeting For those of you who were not present at the last meeting [1], the decision was made to base times on CET rather than UTC. I, for one, welcome our new European overlords. &lt;cough&gt;10:00 Eastern Time.&lt;/cough&gt; The other bits are the usual: * Agenda-in-progress: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Meetings * Reminder to add your agenda items prior to the meeting * Subscribe-able Team Calendar: http://bit.ly/GNOME-A11y-Calendar Be there or be square! ;) --joanie [1] https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Minutes/20120405 </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-04-11T21:30:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general/9150 <pre>Hello, everyone. I use the htop program at times to monitor processes which are running on my system. I am currently running Fedora 16 (along with the latest updates), and I noticed something taking place while panning (while zoomed) with the GNOME Shell Magnifier. When the magnifier is zoomed but not in use my CPU usage on a dual core processor is next to nothing (maybe 1% on each core). When I pan the magnifier around the CPU usage jumps up to as high as 34% on one core for me. Note that I am also using the Nouveau driver (if I am correct) which ships by default with Fedora. Here are the steps to reproduce this: 1. Start the magnifier. 2. From the default magnification level (I think this is zero), invoke the zoom-in feature about seven times. NOTE: I have shortcut keys set for zooming--ALT+Up zooms in and ALT+Down zooms out, so I press ALT+Up seven times to reach the optimal level of magnification for ease of use for myself. 3. Open up a terminal. 4. If installed, start the htop program. 5. Look for the line which is associated with the command "/usr/bin/gnome-shell". 6. Monitor the entry for the CPU% for the command listed in #5. a) Do not pan the magnifier at all and you will notice that the CPU is not really being used. b) Pan the mouse, and the CPU usage should spike. Now, I am completely unsure as to how much of the CPU panning should use, but I noticed this this evening, and I figured I would post a message here in case this is something which should be flagged. If this is normal behavior then I apologize for wasting time with this message. Take caer, and kind regards. </pre> Robert Cole 2012-04-09T05:39:32 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general