Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

["Jason Grieves" <jasongrieves hotmail com>]

Sounds great Bill.  Lets just say AIX doens't like to move quickly in terms 
of "updating" its packages.  AIX doesn't even support X -version :) but its 
based on X11R6.4 (yeah I know)

DAMAGE is not running, is it supported on this version?

This is latest AIX for records sake is 5.3D, still running X11R6.4.  We'll 
see what the future holds :)

Thanks Bill

Jason

> Hi Jason:
>
> Yes, Toggle Keys might have prevented that :-)
>
> I'm glad to hear fullscreen magnification is working for you at last.  I 
> can think of a couple of other things that might help a lot.  The crosswire 
> bug was a gnome-mag bug (my bug, as it happens) which I fixed a few weeks 
> back.  You've reminded me also that an important fix for large 
> magnification factors was put back into cvs but not released yet (I'll try 
> to do that on Monday).  So a more recent gnome-mag should have many fewer 
> glitchy problems.
>
> For performance, you'll need a pretty recent xserver.  Do you know if 
> you're running the XOrg server on AIX?  My version is X11R6.8.2,
> "X -version" says "6.8.2."
> Also, if you have the 'DAMAGE' X extension performance is a lot better: 
> check by typing
> xdpyinfo | grep DAMAGE
>
> It's still not exactly ZoomText yet, but it's finally getting usable I 
> think.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
> Jason Grieves wrote:
>
> > Well done Bill.  Looks like you need to activate Toggle Keys via AccessX 
> > :).
> >
> >
> > Thank you all for the help.  Full screen magnification on AIX finally came
> > yesterday.  Its an old box and its slow, but she works without any 
> > glitches
> > now.  Taking the cross hairs off helped tremendously.
> >
> > Jason Grieves
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org
> > [mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Bill
> > Haneman
> > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:12 AM
> > To: Sébastien Hinderer
> > Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired
> >
> > 			On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:27, Sébastien Hinderer
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Sun folks & other listers.
> > > Hi Sebastien and all:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Bill Haneman :
> > >
> > >
> > > > Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > They say "open source is not accessible", which is wrong, but what is
> > > > > true is "open source is not yet really accessible".
> > > > I do not agree with this assessment.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Hey Bill. Just for an experience, please do the followingthings :
> > >
> > > 1. Switch off your computer.
> > > 2. Close your eyes and do something so that you can't see anything.
> > > Are you really blind, now ? Ok, so:
> > > 3. Switch on your computer, choose any graphical mailer you like,
> > > and try to reply to this mail _without_ opening your eyes.
> > I haven't done this in awhile, so this WAS A GOOD EXERCISE.  i TRIED
> > WITH mOZILLA FIRST, BUT SWITCHED TO eVOLUTION.  i BELIEVE THE sUN
> > mOZILLA TEAM WOULD BE BETTER ABLE TO DO THIS WITH mOZILLA, SINCE i THINK
> > IT'S PART OF THE REGULAR SANITY TESTS.  mY TOUCH TYPING IS A LITTLE
> > ROUGH TOO.
> >
> >
> > > Just use a speech system, or a braille one, if you have one you know
> > > well enough.
> > i AM NOT NEARLY GOOD ENOUGH AT BRAILLE, BUT i AM USING SPEECH.
> >
> > > Now... I'm waiting for your blindly sent reply.
> > i 		AGREE THAT THIS TOOK LONGER THAN IT SHOULD HAVE, AND i
> > DISCOVERED A
> > COUPLE OF BUGS IN THE PROCESS.  lET'S KEEP THE BUG REPORTS COMING SO
> > THAT WE CAN MAKE THIS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE.
> >
> > bEST REGARDS,
> >
> > bILL
> >
> >
> > > Sébastien.
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