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

[David K Parker]

I have  to disagree completely. I've personally tested every capacitive
screen I can find and they  are all utterly unresponsive to touch from my
hook. Carrying around a stylus to simply answer a call on an iPhone or use a
computer is not a realistic option.Believe me, I've done the research out of
necessity. To make matters worse, I'm being shut out of an increasing number
of mobile devices. A device billed as accessible that has a capacitive only
screen is a contradiction in terms.

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:08 AM, <timothyhobbs at seznam.cz> wrote:

> It is not true that capacitive input is impossible for people with
> prosetics.  There where two long conversations about that, here and on the
> wiki(maybe).  I could try to find them if you want, but I didn't catch it on
> 5 minutes of Googling.  I think the solution had something to do with
> attaching metal to the end of the prosthetic.  The results where that it is
> possible but doesn't work very well...
>
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> From: "David K Parker" <davparker at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC" <
> accessibility at lists.laptop.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:15:13 +0200 (CEST)
> Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] screenreader for
> sugar
> 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.
>
> 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
>>
>> ----------
>> 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
>>
>> ----------
>> 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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