speakup todo?

Sun Sep 16 18:09:21 EDT 2012

For a long time I was leary of switching to linux because I could not stand 
the espeak voice, and that was the only option available to me as far as 
speech synthesis went, not having a hardware synthesizer other than my 
braille lite. I am afflicted with severe hearing loss and the metallic tin 
can nature of that voice is such that I can only understand one out of every 
five words or so. Even if I lower the pitch and speed it only helps a 
little.
Then I found out about voxin, which helped a great deal. It's not exactly 
current, but I can understand everything it says, when it actually works. 
Also I have a braille display now so I can use BRLTTY. In fact, I just 
installed Debian Squeeze with no speech and only braille the other day.
As far as Speakup's key bindings go, I do not see what the problem is. As 
far as I know if you do not like a certain key combination for performing an 
action, you can redefine it to something else pretty easily. I myself didn't 
have much of a hard time using speakup's keys, although I did find myself 
doing its key combinations in windows and wondering briefly why it didn't 
work. Lol.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn" <glennervin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: speakup todo?

That is true in a perfect world, but it is not like that, and the reality is
as I stated, that very few Blind users will migrate to Linux without
something familiar to use.
But you already use it, so why should you care if more users take to Linux?

Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alonzo Cuellar" <mariachiac at gmail.com>
To: "Glenn" <glennervin at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: speakup todo?

I think the key bindings are fine. There is no trouble with them at all.
Always be able to expand your mind set. Even if little progress is made.
After all, you get more advantages from learning the way other screen
readers work.
I can see where the option might be useful, but if you don't learn it full
force and always stay trapped in the way jaws works, then you'll never
expand your horizons.
people come to linux expecting it to be something like windows. Its not and
it probably never will be similar to windows. Its made for you to explore,
etc.
I was forced in using linux due to an accident I had with my computer. That
was fine by me though. Ever since then I prefer the unix variances weather
is be linux or mac.
I'm no programmer by any means, but I do enjoy working with other operating
systems.
The argument that only techies spend the time to learn new keyboard commands
is always widely used. I consider that as an excuse. Everyone can learn how
to use a device weather it be a phone or computer. Maybe the person may have
difficulty and may not excel where in mastering it, but thats ok. You can
apply this to any situation.
If we were to stop learning… Then we would never excel and stay trapped in
the mind frame that this or that is to hard.
Learn while you still can. Once you get older it gets harder to learn and
thats where it might be a problem.

Alonzo

On Sep 16, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Glenn <glennervin at cableone.net> wrote:

> That is the kind of thinking that will keep Linux in the shadows.
> I teach people how to use screenreaders, and people have a hard enough
> time
> switching from the mouse to all these keyboard commands.
> When people begrudgingly learn JFW keyboard mappings to some degree, do
> you
> think they will willing go out to learn different key mappings?
> Only the techie types do that.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
> To: "Glenn" <glennervin at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
> Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:39 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup todo?
>
>
> I'm not really to worried about JFW key mappings honestly. First it's
> sort of weird, but mainly if they can't get used to using different
> keys, they're never going to live on Linux, at least not in the cli.
> On 9/16/2012 2:34 PM, Glenn wrote:
>> The big one for SpeakUp would be for it to have the option to switch to
>> JFW
>> key mappings.
>> This will allow many people to switch to Linux easily.
>> Microsoft did this with MS Word, allowing people to use Word Perfect key
>> mappings.
>> I think this is the only way Linux will ever become any more popular to
>> screenreader users.
>> Glenn
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 1:17 PM
>> Subject: speakup todo?
>>
>>
>> Hello all:
>> I'm trying to transfer, and applying for scholarships and all that I'd
>> like to be able to make some contributions to projects that I can note.
>> I'm interested in learning more about kernel programming, and I figured
>> I'd start by working on something I use almost daily. I'm curious then
>> if there's some sort of todo or improvements speakup could have to it.
>> I'd also be curious if someone has thought about moving it to
>> userspace--as far as I know, the only thing that we really need the
>> kernel for would be hardware speech (and since serial ports are dying
>> out that could be a dead point), and accessing the console directly. How
>> easy would it be then, to have speakup run in userspace, but access a
>> smaller cut-down version of itself in the kernel to provide the access
>> to the console we need?
>> We could use sequence files and access the console through /proc. It
>> could return a file of 2-byte chars, which I believe is how it works
>> now--one byte is the color, and the other byte is the ascii value. The
>> sequence file would just iterate over the console's lines. I'm also
>> curious how we'd handle something like key presses like caps+u to move
>> up a line etc.
>>
>> If I'm way off here, I'd still like to help out if possible; is there a
>> todo list around, or stuff people would like to see done? If there are
>> people willing to answer questions from time to time in terms of the
>> kernel programming, since that's something I've not done before, I'm
>> game to start coding.
>>
>> Another question is then, how do people catch panics? Since I'm not
>> quite cool enough to write code that just works, I'm sure I'll be
>> dealing with panics, but I can't see them on the console and usually
>> it's when speakup goes boom anyway.
>>
>
>
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