RE: [g-a-devel]Proposed implementation agnostic GNOME Speech API.

["Mike Pedersen" <mike pedersen sbcglobal net>]

Hi Peter, if these are going to be uploaded and made generally available I'd
like to suggest that it be in html as opposed to PDF.  I don't know how most
blind people feel but for me PDF is pretty low on my list of favorite
document formats.  
Thoughts?
regards
Mike Pedersen 

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-accessibility-devel-admin gnome org
[mailto:gnome-accessibility-devel-admin gnome org] On Behalf Of Peter Korn
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:55 PM
To: n7zib bresnan net
Cc: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org; Rich Burridge
Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]Proposed implementation agnostic GNOME Speech API.


Hi Scott,

Limiting distribution to gnome-accessibility-devel given the attachments. 
Please find two PDF documents, each one is a single page containing a cheat 
sheet for 4 of the Gnopernicus layers.

Remus - do ya think we could put these on www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html 
somewhere?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Scott Berry wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Yeah that would be great if you could pass along your cheat sheet 
> please.  Also what software is Gnopernicus working with right now?  I 
> notice Mozilla isn't one of them.On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Peter Korn 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Scott,
>>
>>Scott Berry wrote:
>>
>>>I also have a question here.  Why is it that Gnopernicus uses such a 
>>>complicated layer of keys.  Being new to the program it makes it 
>>>quite difficult to use.  I wonder if this could be changed?
>>
>>Gnopernicus is in many ways three different apps; or rather, it 
>>supports three different output modalities of which any two (or 
>>perhaps just a single
>>one) might be of use to any given individual: e.g. speech + Braille, or
>>magnification + speech.
>>
>>As there are so many commands that a user might want to issue 
>>immediately to change things (e.g. speech rate, magnification size), 
>>Gnopernicus would group related commands together on the keypad.  In 
>>this way a speech user might live on keypad layer 8 for much of the 
>>time, a magnification user on layer #1 or #2.
>>
>>The alternatives are:
>>
>>  1. have far fewer commands available by default
>>  2. use Ctrl/Shift/Alt-keypad combinations instead of layers  3. use 
>> Function keys or them main keyboard with Ctrl/Shift/Alt combinations
>>
>>Of these, I think really only option #2 is worth considering.
>>
>>
>>I do think it would be very helpful to have better documentation of 
>>the keypad keys.  I've cribbed up a cheat sheet for myself (a horribly 
>>inaccessable PDF document), that also is also out of date.  I'd be 
>>happy to share it, though being in graphical and basically inaccesible 
>>document, it wouldn't be of particular use to the core audience of 
>>this software.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Peter Korn
>>Sun Accessibility team
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, 12 Dec 2003,
>>>Rich Burridge wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>Marc Mulcahy asked my to announce something I've been working on 
>>>>over the last few weeks, and get feedback from the community on.
>>>>
>>>>I've filed bug #129205
>>>>
>>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129205
>>>>
>>>>to capture this work.
>>>>
>>>>In short, I've created an implementation agnostic set of wrappers 
>>>>for the existing GNOME Speech v0.2.X API that used GObject. It hides 
>>>>the existing Bonobo/ORBit2 implementation under the covers.
>>>>
>>>>There is a test application included in one of the two attachments 
>>>>to the bug.
>>>>
>>>>If accepted, it's planned that the Bonobo/ORBit2 API would continue 
>>>>to be provided (but deprecated).
>>>>
>>>>I've also rewritten the speech related code in gnopernicus to use 
>>>>this new API, but I haven't attached that work yet, until the 
>>>>community feel that this is a good thing to do.
>>>>
>>>>I know the API/ABI freeze for GNOME 2.5/6 has already happened, so 
>>>>this is something we'd like to consider for GNOME 2.7/8.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
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