Re: Information on Caribou

[Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk>]

The only point I can add is that there are 2 main use cases for OSKs -
pointer access and switch device access. IFIRC Ben wanted to get the
former working first and so concentrated on that. My view is that both
are needed, but switch acces for people with motor difficulties is
something we could do well to think of as a posisble USP.

Switch access is complext with manny posisbel scannign modes and some
less thanl obvious user needs It depends of lower parts of the stak
for switch input, and there is a need for standardisation (eg USB or
bluetooth and X). I recommend a look at this doc [1] (listed on
Caribou page) and there are people on the OATSoft mailing list [2] who
are clued up on user needs.

1: http://www.ace-centre.org.uk/assets/Product%20Downloads/SwitchScanningMaster_8_472.pdf
2: http://www.oatsoft.org/Info/Project/OatsSig

Steve Lee

On 16 September 2010 22:46, Mario <mariocs gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking on the Caribou webpage and many of the "bugs" have been
> already solved. I'll ask WARP, the company that has made those changes, to
> update the page so that the status will be up-to-date.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Mario.
>
> 2010/9/16 Heidi Ellis <heidijcellis gmail com>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you all for your very helpful suggestions. We’d be happy to create a
>> requirements document for Caribou. I have a format that is loosely based on
>> the IEEE 830 Software Requirements Specification, cut down and simplified to
>> student size. I’ll have students complete this based existing documentation
>> and on executing Caribou.
>>
>>
>>
>> And of course, the next question is who in the community would be the
>> logical person to look at the document and tell us where we went wrong? It
>> would be helpful to have some feedback on the document both so that we could
>> correct the document and also so that we don’t continue development based on
>> an incorrect assumption.
>>
>>
>>
>> The goal would be to get the kinks out of the documentation and then post
>> to wherever the community would like to have it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Heidi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Eitan Isaacson [mailto:eitan monotonous org]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:20 PM
>> To: Stormy Peters
>> Cc: Heidi Ellis; gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
>> Subject: Re: Information on Caribou
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Heidi Ellis <heidijcellis gmail com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> One thing I'd like to do is to really "kick the tires" so to speak on
>> Caribou. To have students find all the rough edges and report bugs. And
>> then
>> fix some of them of course! :-) So I'm looking for direction as to how to
>> determine what the exact appearance and behavior of Caribou should be.
>>
>> While I realize it would be a lot of work, if there isn't such a document,
>> maybe the students could start it with their assumptions.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, assumptions are the right starting points here :)
>>
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