Re: New to List
- From: William Best <standard7452 gmail com>
- To: Cesar Mauri <cesar crea-si com>, gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: New to List
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 16:19:59 +0000
Brian,
Where is the site for the GNOME Accessibility Team located?
Thanks!
Will
All,
I am familiar with GOK, and actually tracked down the original authors of that software. I believe they were from the University of Toronto, and were no longer interested in doing that. I am not sure about caribou. I think a nice solution would be to integrate switch/pointer access in conjunction with speech recognition.
It is nearly $1000 USD though.
I think there has to be someone out there with the skills to create something like this as an open source project. That is what I would like to help accomplish.
Thanks!
Will
Will,
Not sure, not much into Gnome specific development, but in the past
there were efforts devoted to a project called GOK [1]. It was a
on-screen keyboard which supported scanning access. It seems that now it
has been replaced by Caribou [2]. Not sure about its current status. The
folks involved in this project might provide you more insight.
[1]
https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/idp5239184.html
[2]
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Caribou?action="">
Regards,
César
El 29/05/2015 a las 17:37, William Best escribió:
> Cesar,
>
> I am going to try out your Viacam project with one of my individuals
> at the beginning of next week.
>
> I would like to get a project going that would bring switch access to
> Gnome via a programmable on-screen keyboard.
>
> How can something like this get started?
>
> Thanks!
> Will
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM Cesar Mauri <cesar crea-si com
> <mailto:cesar crea-si com>> wrote:
>
> Welcome William,
>
> I've been working with people with cerebral palsy for more than ten
> years and I maintain the Enable Viacam [1] open source project.
> Here in
> Spain I'm also involved in this project [2] (web page in Spanish,
> sorry)
> in which we try to improve the social participation of people with
> cerebral palsy through the use of technology.
>
> In my view, there is still a lot to be done and, in general,
> accessibility is always lagging behind the pace of innovation,
> even more
> in the FOSS arena. Unfortunately, most "state of the art" assistive
> technology is privative and, often, scandalously expensive, as you
> already know.
>
> As for speech recognition, we also had little success with people with
> cerebral palsy due to their speech disorders (dysarthria). In most
> cases
> we have to rely on other input methods such as alternative keyboards,
> mouses, joysticks or even switches and scanning techniques. Up to our
> knowledge, best solutions for specialised scanning access and AAC are
> only available for Windows and, in general, privative. One
> exception is
> SAW (Special Access to Windows) [3], very powerful but only for
> Windows
> and hard to use for most people. It would great if we had
> something like
> SAW but easy to use and available for FOSS environments. And this is
> just an example. Also open to collaborate.
>
> [1] http://viacam.org
> [2] http://aspacenet.aspace.org/
> [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sawat/
>
> Regards,
>
> César
>
>
> El 29/05/2015 a las 15:17, William Best escribió:
> > Eric,
> >
> > I would love to help you with your project where I can. My strengths
> > are not in writing code per se, but I understand the issues you
> face.
> > I work with 120 individuals with all forms of disabilities.
> >
> > How successful have you been with using voice recognition using
> > Windows? I have had limited success with voice recognition
> technology
> > in my work. This is mostly due to the people who have physical
> > disabilities have cerebral palsy which also presents speech problems
> > in these cases.
> >
> > Access is difficult for folks with disabilities, and my goal is to
> > collaborate with others to create open source versions of some very
> > expensive propriety software systems.
> >
> > Could you send a video of you using your setup so I can
> visualize it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Will
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:06 AM Eric Johansson <esj eggo org
> <mailto:esj eggo org>
> > <mailto:esj eggo org <mailto:esj eggo org>>> wrote:
> >
> > Welcome to the list. I joined because I am disabled and
> > unfortunately the accessibility models currently available
> do not
> > help me in the slightest. I was hoping to find the time to serve
> > my own needs which I know would serve the needs of other people
> > like myself with upper extremities disabilities and dependent on
> > speech recognition.
> >
> > Best laid plans etc cetera. :-)
> >
> > Here's where I'm at and I could use some help.
> >
> > the only really useful speech recognition environment right
> now is
> > nuances naturally speaking followed closely by Microsoft.
> > obviously the main problem is they only run on Windows.
> >
> > I have set up a prototype of a working environment where I run
> > Windows as a virtual machine dedicated solely to speech
> > recognition. Then I have a bridge which transfers key codes or
> > other types of speech events over to Linux from windows. Right
> > now, I've been somewhat successful with injecting speech
> generated
> > characters into Linux applications. I'm working on the next
> > generation now and running into problems with uinput. as
> soon as
> > i fix those problems, using the community developed macro
> > environment, we will have a reasonably useful speech recognition
> > system driving Linux.
> >
> > What I mean by reasonably useful is that I can drive emacs,
> write
> > prose and a bit of code. With any luck, that would only be a
> > stone's throw away from being able to execute code on the Linux
> > side as a result of interpreting a grammar on the Windows side.
> > The remote execution capability would put us on a parity with
> > what's available on Windows.
> >
> > Anyway, if you'd like to help, I would welcome assistance.
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 29, 2015 8:29 AM, William Best
> <standard7452 gmail com <mailto:standard7452 gmail com>
> > <mailto:standard7452 gmail com
> <mailto:standard7452 gmail com>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > My name is William Best. I am not sure if this is the right
> > group to join
> > > for how I would like to contribute.
> > >
> > > My passion/career involves helping people with developmental
> > disabilities
> > > get better access to technology. Over the past year or so, I
> > have been
> > > experimenting with different Linux distributions to come
> up with a
> > > low-cost, stable, and robust solution for the disabled
> people I
> > work with.
> > >
> > > My goal is to help get features/apps that would help disabled
> > people access
> > > technology in a better way.
> > >
> > > Let me know if I am in the right group for this.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
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