[laptop-accessibility] just a test...

[Cindy Anderson]

I could have used this a month ago when I had elbow surgery and was looking for better ways to access my computer that were not really expensive and did not require me to upgrade my system software.

Still interested.

Cindy Anderson

From: "Allan E. Registos" <allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph<mailto:allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph>>
Reply-To: Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC <accessibility at lists.laptop.org<mailto:accessibility at lists.laptop.org>>
Date: Monday, January 7, 2013 6:19 PM
To: "accessibility at lists.laptop.org<mailto:accessibility at lists.laptop.org>" <accessibility at lists.laptop.org<mailto:accessibility at lists.laptop.org>>
Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...

On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 08:06 AM, Gary Kline wrote:

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:03:52AM +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote:


Hi.


        hi!

        according to your email and TZ, you are from somewhere in the
        Phils, if I'm not mistaken.  my wife was born there.  [ just
        intro. chatter. ]

Yes I am, I am from Davao.

        about ten years ago when I was at a local hospital here in Seattle,
        the speech therapist showed me a Windoze box with a touch keyboard,
        batteries, and speaker.  I only have one working hand and could
        barely heft the thing.  it was difficult to use even tho I have
        been using a typewriter or computer keyboard since my youth.  my
        thoughts then were that with a little hacking, I could buy a
        smallish laptop and develop a graphic tool for the speech-
        disabled {or mute}.  the affected person would listen to his
        friend(s) who were talking, and reply by having the computer be his
        voice.

That would be a great tool/software for people with speech disability if you intend to release it to the public.

        I was already laid-off from a work injury and going to school in
        a completely different field, so I never did anything except
        outline my plans and continue with my schooling.  ---The nutshell
        of the story  is that given 6+ month hacking in C and teaching
        myself gtk ---AND having lots of help with the gtk suite, I
        recently completed my project.

        VBC {Voice-by-Computer} requires espeak, gtk, and vim/gvim.  But
        it does essentially what I thought of those years ago--2003 or
        '04 or '05--whatever it was.

        I talked to some hacker at Galluadet University who was
        volunteering his time of the "one child per computer" project;
        I also talked to another person or two.  This was around '07 or
        '08; there was definite interest in my project.  I promised to
        get back in touch when/if I ever finished the project.

        It's done.  I dont know what version--possibly 0.20 to 0.35.
        It works.

You can release it with a free license and start a campaign to raise funds for continued development.

 VBC runs on any Unix/linux/android--[i think android]
        tablet.   I have run this domain, thought.org, for over 25 years
        and gone thru dozens of used and homebrew hardware; I have
        suffered many crashes; recent ones cost me former email backups.
        So I have lost my record of who I was emailing at laptop.org.

I recommend you use google apps for non-profits. google.com/apps so that you can retain your domain(thought.org) and stop worrying of having email backups. I think it is free of up to 10 users.

        Need help.

        thanks much!

        gary kline





----- Original Message -----

From: "Gary Kline" <kline at thought.org><mailto:kline at thought.org>
To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <accessibility at lists.laptop.org><mailto:accessibility at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM
Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...


just a test. is anyone at the other end of this list? I have a
major CopyLeft program to announce.
--
Gary Kline kline at thought.org<mailto:kline at thought.org> http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.

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