Re: GNOME A11y: where do we need to improve? (Want input by 25-Jan)

[web yokoy de]

Hello,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:47:58 +0100
Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> First of all, thanks for making this possible.
> 
> At 11:11 AM -0500 1/17/08, Willie Walker wrote:

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> >Over the coming week, please set aside some time to look at
> >http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved.  It contains a large
> >list of stuff to do, but it represents a pretty complete list of things
> >people have mentioned over the past few years.

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> Cheap Head Mice? The adaptive Headpointers that I know of, use 
> special reference items weird by the user to track his movement. I 
> wonder whether a simple camera (webcam) working without a reference 
> item can be accurate enough to use it as headpointer. Does anybody 
> have any experience with "reference-less" headpointing?
> 
> About writing drivers for headpointers: do you have any headpointers 
> in mind? Some headpointers (usually the more expensive models) 
> present themselves as a normal mouse to the computer and consequently 
> should work with the mouse driver shipped by the operating: this has 
> the advantage of not requiring a specific driver (and maybe the 
> disadvantage of not being customizable).
> 
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we are working on a headtracker (-pointer, -mice, -whatever). The project hosted at
http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker
stucks a bit cause I am not able to write assembler or C code. The guys who are able do that do not have the time, now. If someone wants to join the project I would be glad. It is an OLPC project but should work for gnome or other unix desktops, too.

regards,
yokoy



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