speakup todo?

Sun Sep 16 18:12:43 EDT 2012

No, htis isn't the attitude the sighted people have. Learning a new 
operating system requires just that, that you sit down and learn. Look 
at all the blind people jumping on the OSX band waggon and buying $1800 
shiny MacBooks. They learned those, and Voiceover's keys are nothing 
like Jaws's.
On 9/16/2012 3:51 PM, Glenn wrote:
> Actually, it is this attitude among the sighted, that keeps most technology
> from being made accessible to the Blind.
> Wow.
> 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.
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Take care,
>> Ty
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>> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he
>> that
>> dares not reason is a slave.
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Take care,
Ty
http://tds-solutions.net
The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine:
http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.