Hi Cesar,
Helping people with language and cognitive disabilities communicate
with each other and with folks who don't have those disabilities is
one of the tasks under the AEGIS project
[http://www.aegis-project.eu]. In particular, AEGIS partners
SU-DART and FPD in Sweden (staff of whom are cc-ed: Mats, Lars,
Bengt, and Annika) are doing that work.
To that end, they are building fonts out of the CCF symbol sets that
they developed for helping folks in Sweden with language and
communication impairments. Initially these fonts would be used as
part of a text editor - displaying symbols alongside the
English/Swedish/Spanish/... words representing the same concepts (to
be done as a plug-in to OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice). But the
intention is that they could be used for direct communication - with
any communication application that supported multi-byte characters.
I'll let Mats/Lars/Bengt/Annika describe this in further detail.
Regards,
Peter
On 10/25/2011 12:52 PM, Cesar Mauri wrote:
Hi
all,
Recently I suggested to Meg Ford, who was attending the Montreal
Summit,
to ask Telepathy developers whether it would be possible to add
support
for pictogram based communication.
Here is my suggestion:
Thinking in people with language and
communication disorders (i.e.
people not able to read/write due to cognitive/mental
disorders), it
would be interesting to have a IM client able to compose, send
and
display messages made up pictograms + text.
So, messages would look like this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/___h4z60kN9fAk/TBnOIM61kUI/__AAAAAAAAAQ8/TM0fBXcTvyA/s1600/__cumplea%C3%B1os.png
Also, it would be useful to add TTS support in order to hear
messages written in plain text (which could be also useful for
blind
people).
There had been some efforts in that way:
http://www.fundmaresme.com/messengervisual/
And here Meg's answer:
I spoke to one of the developers of
Telepathy about this, and here is
what he said:
Currently Telepathy does not support this type of feature. For
example,
users cannot send emoticons that they have drawn themselves.
Therefore,
you would need to write a library for this. If you are willing
to write
a library, they would be happy to have this feature.
Secondly, they recommend that you write a seperate app for this
feature,
but use the Empathy contact list. They recommend that the
feature be
accessed through the accessibility menu.
Regarding the feasibility of implementing such a library on top of
the supported protocols, Meg also told me:
Do they all support sending icons? I
assume that all of the chat programs
do, but you would need to ask the Telepathy developers. I know
enough about
A.T. to be able to explain what this type of feature does from a
user-end
perspective, but I am not a programmer. Guillame Desmottes said
that you
would need to write an API to support this type of program.
Again, you can
speak to him about it. He said that some chat programs support,
for example,
sending user-made icons such as these http://emoticonhq.com/ .
He said
that you would need to write this type of A.P.I. for Telepathy
in order to
support the feature you are proposing. However, it would be best
if you
would discuss this with him if you want more details.
And so here I am. My questions is:
- Do (most commonly used) supported protocols allow for sending
arbitrary images along with text? Otherwise it would be pointless
to try to write a library for this.
Thanks.
César
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