[laptop-accessibility] Considering closing down the mailing list accessibility at lists.laptop.org

[Gary Kline]

Organization: Thought Unlimited.  Public service Unix since 1986.
Of_Interest: With 27 years  of service  to the  Unix  community.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:42:14AM -0700, Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> 
> There are three developments coming out of the AEGIS Project
> <http://www.aegis-project.eu> that might be of interest.  Take a
> look at Dasher for Android
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dasher.android>,
> Tecla Access for Android
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.idi.tekla> (that
> provides tremendous control functionality as well), and
> CCF-SymbolDroid <http://dev.androtech.se/ooo/content.html>(which is
> compatible with TTS, but more focused on people with
> language/cognitive impairments, yet still may be a useful choice).
> 


	thanks, peter, but none of your URL;'S did what by program does.
	you would have known that if you have done some minor hacking and
	exec's vbc.  

	overworking {by putting in from 9- to 13-hour days}  for nearly 
	three years caused my shoulder to subluximate.  voila! from 
	severely disabled to damn-near Totally disabled.  out of a job.

	I do not have android; I know the berkeley distro's at the
	kernel level ......  well, that's if you go back to the 
	end-of-lawsuit.   ihave slipped a bit.  besides writing a slew
	of freeware, I spent 7 or 8 years earning my MA in philosophy.
	and because my shoulder is giving my grief, I have decided to 
	hand off vbc to whomever wants to finish it.

	the only shortcoming I see is that t o learn vbc requires the 
	use to learn a min of the "vim" text editor.  this is neither
	good nor evil//easy nor hard.  but it gives the speech-impaired
	user  the flexibility of mapping abbrevs:  "thr" becomes 
	"there"; "i" maps to "I"; and "ths" becomes "this" or "those"
	depending on the user's desire.

	gary

	ps:  vbc uses the GUI version of vim: gvim; espeak voices 
	     whatever is typed when the window is closed.



> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> (former AEGIS Technical Manager)
> 
> On 8/21/2013 10:34 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >Organization: Thought Unlimited.  Public service Unix since 1986.
> >Of_Interest: With 27 years  of service  to the  Unix  community.
> >
> >On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:34:14PM -0400, gabey8 at aol.com wrote:
> >>Before this list goes away, I think it would be worthwhile to visit the accessibility of the recently-released XO Tablet. It's running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and has a lot of XO-specific software installed.
> >>
> >>What accessibility features in Android would allow disabled users to make the best use of this tablet?
> >>
> >>I have, in particular, an interest in text-to-speech capabilities in Android. I know someone whose speech has been severely impaired by Parkinson's Disease, and if Android offers an affordable communication solution, I would recommend her purchase of this tablet in a heartbeat. I know that the iPad offers such apps, and that there are ruggedized/bump cases for it; however, we are talking about someone who is on a fixed income; if Android can offer the same capabilities for less money, I'd be willing to suggest the XO Tablet to her instead.
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>accessibility mailing list
> >>accessibility at lists.laptop.org
> >>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
> >	hello to everyone of the accessibility list,
> >
> >	I have dropped out of working on my "Voice By Computer"
> >	program some months back even though "VBC|vbc" works
> >	well on my Ubuntu linux desktop.  I was the first severely
> >	disabled EE to graduate as a computer programmer in 1982
> >	and have written several open source programs over the
> >	years.  "vbc" is my text-to-speech effort that was and
> >	remains intended for people like myself with a speech
> >	impairment.
> >
> >	some very old data is available at http://www.thought.org/vbc
> >	with a "src" link that will display a shar "List"; I put this
> >	up late last spring informed OLPC.  Several minor hacks need
> >	to be made to store static data.  ~/.config/inkscape/* is an
> >	example.  What I have in /home/kline/.VBC should be moved to
> >	/home/kline/.config/.VBC/*.  this is one example.
> >
> >	vbc is written in C and GTK+. interested?  have at it!
> >
> 
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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
             Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
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