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: ===</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 T</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.getRol</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 </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 --</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: ==</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 hacksessi</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' argu</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. </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