RE: Information on Caribou

[David Pellicer <dpellicer warp es>]

Hi Heidi.

First of all, sorry for the late reply.

Here are the features we have worked on, from the Caribou roadmap:

  * change the qwerty layout to have 4 rows instead of 3 (add more
 control characters to the first layer)(already included in Caribou)
  * improve text detection using atspi (already included in Caribou)
  * add sticky keys functionality (already included in Caribou)
  * add support for word prediction using prediction dbus service
  * add 'alpha numeric sorted alphabetically' and 'alpha numeric sorted
 by frequency' keyboards
  * keyboard fully usable with 1 switch Autoscan
  * keyboard fully usable with 1 switch Userscan
  * UI for setting up switch
  * a mode that is always visible

At the moment, we are working on the patches with the changes and
uploading them to the project repository and their approval will be
needed. The 'development tasks' section of the web will be updated
accordingly.

Regards.

David Pellicer


El vie, 17-09-2010 a las 07:37 -0400, Heidi Ellis escribió:
> Thank you Mario,
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> That would be most helpful (and most appreciated!)
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> Best,
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> Heidi
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> From: Mario [mailto:mariocs gmail com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:47 PM
> To: Heidi Ellis
> Cc: Eitan Isaacson; Stormy Peters; gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Information on Caribou
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> 2010/9/16 Heidi Ellis <heidijcellis gmail com>
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> Hi Folks,
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> The goal would be to get the kinks out of the documentation and then
> post to wherever the community would like to have it. 
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> Thanks!
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> Heidi
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> 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
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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Heidi Ellis <heidijcellis gmail com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Yes, assumptions are the right starting points here :) 
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David Pellicer Martín
dpellicer warp es

Software Developer at Warp Networks S.L.
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