[laptop-accessibility] Introducing myself

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Andrea, this sounds really awesome!

I'm going to forward this email to the .py guys who I think are
working on similar stuff.

This mailing list is very quiet, I recommend you to cc the other
developer lists so you reach more people.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 19:09, Andrea Mangiatordi
<andrea.mangiatordi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have been following this list for some months, now I have some things
> I want to share with you all. I'm an Italian PhD student doing research
> in the accessibility field, but I am also a fan of the OLPC project.
> Last month I reached Montevideo, Uruguay, to spend 5 months working and
> doing research in the Caibal plan, which is the local OLPC project,
> involving the whole country. I am currently working side by side with
> some young engineers at LATU (Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay) in
> the field of Assistive Technology.
>
> I have a software project on my own, which consist of a web based
> Assistive Technology tool (actually a virtual web browser) which can be
> adapted to the needs of people with hand mobility impairments and visual
> problems. It is still a prototype, but I want to take it to a stable
> state during the upcoming 4 months. The project website is at
> http://farfalla-project.org (ok, it's not often updated, but my work is
> continuous..). As a web application, it can be run on any machine with
> very low system requirements. I would love to optimize it to be used on
> the XO.
>
> In these days I was asked to explain to some teachers how to use the XO
> and some of them showed interest in the ORCA accessibility suite. I
> managed to install it and to set up firefox with the firevox plugin and
> a Spanish voice using Festival. I wrote a guide about it for the LATU
> staff but I also put it on my blog (here:
> http://www.farfalla-project.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/orca_installation_guide_on_767.pdf).
> Well, it doesn't solve the majority of XO accessibility problems, but I
> think it could be a good starting point.
>
> Thanks for reading this email which is a bit long,
> I hope we will find a way to share more!
>
> Andrea
>
>
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>
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