I strongly support David's suggestion
of a live cd with Caribou, or any other means to make it practically possible
for interested end-users and facilitators to participate in the development
!!
I find it very frustrating so far to
see the release announcements flash by without having a fair chance to
test the new versions. It's over a year sine I managed to run the application,
and I have wasted some precious time in trying to compile sources just
ending up in a heap of error messages :-/
So please take this idea onboard!
Cheers,
Mats
Från:
David Norwood <dnorwood2 yahoo com>
Till:
gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
Datum:
2011-05-01 08:49
Ärende:
Re: on-screen scanning keyboard
Sänt av:
gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org
Hi Eitan,
It's good to hear that you want to make switch scanning work in Caribou!
Feel free to contact me again when you get back to switch access.
It seems like there are tools that can be used to make a custom Ubuntu
live cd very easily. I can imagine having a live cd with Caribou
on it, so people can try it out easily. Also, I noticed that WUBI
allows alternative input methods.
David
On 4/27/2011 11:34 AM, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
Hi David!
Caribou currently has single key switch access. although it is incomplete,
and buggy. I am right now in the midst of an overhaul in Caribou, but I
would love to check back with you later when we refocus efforts on switch
access. I don't know of any switch users who are willing to make this work,
so I am happy you found this mailing list!
Cheers,
Eitan.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, David Norwood <dnorwood2 yahoo com>
wrote:
I have had ALS for over 17 years and completely paralyzed
below the neck. I have been using an on-screen scanning keyboard
program called Skeleton Key for ten years now. Skeleton Key was written
by a brilliant person with ALS (PALS) named Dov Wisebrod, but I'm afraid
he has succumbed to this awful disease. You can read more about my
computer setup here: http://techpals.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/thoughts-on-adaptive-computer-access-for-pals/
There are a couple bugs with Skeleton Key running under windows 7, so I
would like to try running Ubuntu on my laptop. I used to be a Unix
sysadmin on Sun systems, and I have Ubuntu running on a headless server
and on my old laptop. I use Putty and UltraVNC to login to and control
these machines. I tried to run GOK on the old laptop about a year
ago. It crashed a lot and was missing many of the features I have
come to rely on. Since then, I have waited for single switch scanning
to be added to Caribou, but I don't think it has.
Is it okay for me to ask questions here? For example, on my old laptop,
the tab key can't be used to cycle through the buttons in dialog boxes
and the arrow keys don't work in menus. I don't have this problem
on my headless server. Is there a setting for this?
Also, I have never met another Linux geek with ALS. I would love
to correspond with any that are out there. I have many ideas for
projects that use open source software and hardware to improve the lives
of those with severe physical disability.
