Ang: Re: Ang. Re: on-screen scanning keyboard

[Mats Lundälv <mats lundalv vgregion se>]

Thanks Piñeiro,

Sounds like a good idea, and looking forward to a hint about when new Caribou vesions are available there !

Cheers,
Mats

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These days accessibility team is using this live CD distro:

https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/TestingDistro

in order to test a full GNOME3 environment and try to solve problems on it.

It is more developer environment than user environment, but it includes Caribou. I guess that this is more or less what you are asking.

In the same way, Eitan, as lately you are working hard on Caribou, you can propose to add a newer version of Caribou (see the Requested Version column).

BR

On 05/03/2011 01:46 PM, Mats Lundälv wrote:

Hi David, Eitan,

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


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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.

David

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