Re: Improvement on ORCA and OCRFeeder

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Alejandro.

Welcome! Glad to have you on board. :-) I'd encourage you to introduce
yourself on the Orca list where we have a very active community of users
and developers.

Take care.
--Joanie (Orca maintainer)

On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 20:06 +0200, Alejandro Leiva wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> 	(Sorry for the previous mail, I fail with the send button)
> 
> 	Firstly, congratulations with the great work on GNOME accessibility, is amazing the work done.
> 
> 	Emergya is working on various projects in order to improve the accessibility on GNOME.
> 
> 	Under the umbrella of e-accessibility project of Consorcio "Fernando de los Ríos", we have the chance to work in accessibility projects and improve the experience for for people with disabilities.
> 	
> 	We're working closely with CIDAT [1], which is providing us a lot of information about the real problems of people with disabilities.
> 
> 	We expect to receive feedback from this community to get focus on real problems about accessibility on GNOME.
> 
> 	Our objectives for this project are:
> 	
> 	* ORCA: Fix the most important bugs.
> 	* ORCA: saving and loading of user shortcut profiles.
> 	* ORCA: Integration with other text-to-speech engines like voxin.
> 	* OCRFeeder: Automatic adquisition from scanners into the application.
> 	* OCRFeeder: More support for differents OCR.
> 	* OCRFeeder: Improvement of import/export feature.
> 	* OCRFeeder: Prefiltering to improve the ocr columns detection.
> 	* OCRFeeder: Locution of recognized text.
> 
> 	We're very excited to be working with the gnome-accessibility community and improve the GNOME accessibility, allowing access more people to free technologies.
> 	
> 	Evenly, we wish the GNOME accesibility community feedback for the detection of the most significant improvements and fast integration into the GNOME infrastructure.
> 
> Best Regards,
> --
> Alejandro Leiva
> Área de Proyectos
> 
> Emergya Consultoría
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