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Seems to be here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:19 AM, William Best <standard7452 gmail com> wrote:

Brian,

Where is the site for the GNOME Accessibility Team located?

Thanks!
Will



On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:15 PM William Best <standard7452 gmail com>
wrote:


All,

I am familiar with GOK, and actually tracked down the original authors of
that software.  I believe they were from the University of Toronto, and were
no longer interested in doing that.  I am not sure about caribou.  I think a
nice solution would be to integrate switch/pointer access in conjunction
with speech recognition.

This is a software application that some of the people I work with use:
http://goo.gl/43Mev6

It is nearly $1000 USD though.

I think there has to be someone out there with the skills to create
something like this as an open source project.  That is what I would like to
help accomplish.

Thanks!
Will

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:02 PM Cesar Mauri <cesar crea-si com> wrote:


Will,

Not sure, not much into Gnome specific development, but in the past
there were efforts devoted to a project called GOK [1]. It was a
on-screen keyboard which supported scanning access. It seems that now it
has been replaced by Caribou [2]. Not sure about its current status. The
folks involved in this project might provide you more insight.

[1]

https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/idp5239184.html
[2]

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Caribou?action=show&redirect=Caribou

Regards,

César

El 29/05/2015 a las 17:37, William Best escribió:

Cesar,

I am going to try out your Viacam project with one of my individuals
at the beginning of next week.

I would like to get a project going that would bring switch access to
Gnome via a programmable on-screen keyboard.

How can something like this get started?

Thanks!
Will

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM Cesar Mauri <cesar crea-si com
<mailto:cesar crea-si com>> wrote:

    Welcome William,

    I've been working with people with cerebral palsy for more than ten
    years and I maintain the Enable Viacam [1] open source project.
    Here in
    Spain I'm also involved in this project [2] (web page in Spanish,
    sorry)
    in which we try to improve the social participation of people with
    cerebral palsy through the use of technology.

    In my view, there is still a lot to be done and, in general,
    accessibility is always lagging behind the pace of innovation,
    even more
    in the FOSS arena. Unfortunately, most "state of the art" assistive
    technology is privative and, often, scandalously expensive, as you
    already know.

    As for speech recognition, we also had little success with people
with
    cerebral palsy due to their speech disorders (dysarthria). In most
    cases
    we have to rely on other input methods such as alternative
keyboards,
    mouses, joysticks or even switches and scanning techniques. Up to
our
    knowledge, best solutions for specialised scanning access and AAC
are
    only available for Windows and, in general, privative. One
    exception is
    SAW (Special Access to Windows) [3], very powerful but only for
    Windows
    and hard to use for most people. It would great if we had
    something like
    SAW but easy to use and available for FOSS environments. And this
is
    just an example. Also open to collaborate.

    [1] http://viacam.org
    [2] http://aspacenet.aspace.org/
    [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sawat/

    Regards,

    César


    El 29/05/2015 a las 15:17, William Best escribió:
    > Eric,
    >
    > I would love to help you with your project where I can. My
strengths
    > are not in writing code per se, but I understand the issues you
    face.
    > I work with 120 individuals with all forms of disabilities.
    >
    > How successful have you been with using voice recognition using
    > Windows?  I have had limited success with voice recognition
    technology
    > in my work.  This is mostly due to the people who have physical
    > disabilities have cerebral palsy which also presents speech
problems
    > in these cases.
    >
    > Access is difficult for folks with disabilities, and my goal is
to
    > collaborate with others to create open source versions of some
very
    > expensive propriety software systems.
    >
    > Could you send a video of you using your setup so I can
    visualize it?
    >
    > Thanks!
    > Will
    >
    > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:06 AM Eric Johansson <esj eggo org
    <mailto:esj eggo org>
    > <mailto:esj eggo org <mailto:esj eggo org>>> wrote:
    >
    >     Welcome to the list. I joined because I am disabled and
    >     unfortunately the accessibility models currently available
    do not
    >     help me in the slightest. I was hoping to find the time to
serve
    >     my own needs which I know would serve the needs of other
people
    >     like myself with upper extremities disabilities and dependent
on
    >     speech recognition.
    >
    >     Best laid plans etc cetera. :-)
    >
    >     Here's where I'm at and I could use some help.
    >
    >     the only really useful speech recognition environment right
    now is
    >     nuances naturally speaking followed closely by Microsoft.
    >     obviously the main problem is they only run on Windows.
    >
    >     I have set up a prototype of a working environment where I
run
    >     Windows as a virtual machine dedicated solely to speech
    >     recognition. Then I have a bridge which transfers key codes
or
    >     other types of speech events over to Linux from windows.
Right
    >     now, I've been somewhat successful with injecting speech
    generated
    >     characters into Linux applications. I'm working on the next
    >     generation now and running into problems with uinput.  as
    soon as
    >     i fix those problems, using the community developed macro
    >     environment, we will have a reasonably useful speech
recognition
    >     system driving Linux.
    >
    >     What I mean by reasonably useful is that I can drive emacs,
    write
    >     prose and a bit of code. With any luck, that would only be a
    >     stone's throw away from being able to execute code on the
Linux
    >     side as a result of interpreting a grammar on the Windows
side.
    >     The remote execution capability would put us on a parity with
    >     what's available on Windows.
    >
    >     Anyway, if you'd like to help, I would welcome assistance.
    >
    >
    >
    >     On May 29, 2015 8:29 AM, William Best
    <standard7452 gmail com <mailto:standard7452 gmail com>
    >     <mailto:standard7452 gmail com
    <mailto:standard7452 gmail com>>> wrote:
    >     >
    >     > Hello,
    >     >
    >     > My name is William Best.  I am not sure if this is the
right
    >     group to join
    >     > for how I would like to contribute.
    >     >
    >     > My passion/career involves helping people with
developmental
    >     disabilities
    >     > get better access to technology.  Over the past year or so,
I
    >     have been
    >     > experimenting with different Linux distributions to come
    up with a
    >     > low-cost, stable, and robust solution for the disabled
    people I
    >     work with.
    >     >
    >     > My goal is to help get features/apps that would help
disabled
    >     people access
    >     > technology in a better way.
    >     >
    >     > Let me know if I am in the right group for this.
    >     >
    >     > Thanks!
    >
    >
    >
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