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These days accessibility team is using this live CD distro: https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/TestingDistro in order to test a full GNOME3 environment and try to solve problems on it. It is more developer environment than user environment, but it includes Caribou. I guess that this is more or less what you are asking. In the same way, Eitan, as lately you are working hard on Caribou, you can propose to add a newer version of Caribou (see the Requested Version column). BR On 05/03/2011 01:46 PM, Mats Lundälv wrote: Hi David, Eitan, I strongly support David's suggestion of a live cd with Caribou, or any other means to make it practically possible for interested end-users and facilitators to participate in the development !! I find it very frustrating so far to see the release announcements flash by without having a fair chance to test the new versions. It's over a year sine I managed to run the application, and I have wasted some precious time in trying to compile sources just ending up in a heap of error messages :-/ So please take this idea onboard! Cheers, Mats Från: David Norwood <dnorwood2 yahoo com> Till: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org Datum: 2011-05-01 08:49 Ärende: Re: on-screen scanning keyboard Sänt av: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org Hi Eitan, It's good to hear that you want to make switch scanning work in Caribou! Feel free to contact me again when you get back to switch access. It seems like there are tools that can be used to make a custom Ubuntu live cd very easily. I can imagine having a live cd with Caribou on it, so people can try it out easily. Also, I noticed that WUBI allows alternative input methods. David On 4/27/2011 11:34 AM, Eitan Isaacson wrote: Hi David! Caribou currently has single key switch access. although it is incomplete, and buggy. I am right now in the midst of an overhaul in Caribou, but I would love to check back with you later when we refocus efforts on switch access. I don't know of any switch users who are willing to make this work, so I am happy you found this mailing list! Cheers, Eitan. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, David Norwood <dnorwood2 yahoo com> wrote: I have had ALS for over 17 years and completely paralyzed below the neck. I have been using an on-screen scanning keyboard program called Skeleton Key for ten years now. Skeleton Key was written by a brilliant person with ALS (PALS) named Dov Wisebrod, but I'm afraid he has succumbed to this awful disease. You can read more about my computer setup here: http://techpals.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/thoughts-on-adaptive-computer-access-for-pals/ There are a couple bugs with Skeleton Key running under windows 7, so I would like to try running Ubuntu on my laptop. I used to be a Unix sysadmin on Sun systems, and I have Ubuntu running on a headless server and on my old laptop. I use Putty and UltraVNC to login to and control these machines. I tried to run GOK on the old laptop about a year ago. It crashed a lot and was missing many of the features I have come to rely on. Since then, I have waited for single switch scanning to be added to Caribou, but I don't think it has. Is it okay for me to ask questions here? For example, on my old laptop, the tab key can't be used to cycle through the buttons in dialog boxes and the arrow keys don't work in menus. I don't have this problem on my headless server. Is there a setting for this? Also, I have never met another Linux geek with ALS. I would love to correspond with any that are out there. I have many ideas for projects that use open source software and hardware to improve the lives of those with severe physical disability. David _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list_______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- API |