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Links
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Debian List : http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/
DebianInstaller/Accessibility Debian Installer
- Blend subversion repository: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/accessibility/trunk/debian-accessibility/tasks
Talk at fosdem08, odp slides, html slides, audio stream.
This Week In Debian talk, and its transcript
Notes about packaging
- pkg-a11y project on alioth, we usually use git repositories.
- speakup: speakup_decpc is not free, that's why we use a dfsg branch. To release a newer upstream version, pull the upstream branch from the dfsg branch, then pull the dfsg branch from the debian branch, then run git-buildpackage --git-tag --git-upstream-branch=dfsg
- liblouis*: import tarballs to the upstream-import branch (git-import-orig file.tar.gz --upstream-branch=upstream-import), then pull into the upstream branch and discard the conflicts in generated files which we do not ship in the .orig.tar.gz
TODO
ATSPI2 migration
- atspi1 deprecation
- florence
- bug #637221 reported and fixed
- mousetweaks
- Newer upstream 3.0 and later don't use cspi any more
- gok
- Drop it?
- gnome-mag
- ?
- dasher
- ?
- florence
Packaging
Package nfbtrans, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2008/05/msg00043.html http://www.nfb.org/nfb/nfbtrans.asp
- Hook braille translators into cups
Package Anumaan http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/research_groups/open_source_soft_division/projects/anumaan
- Package eviacam (Cesar Mauri is working on it)
- Add a tasksel element. It doesn't seem so simple, we'd need subtasks. Maybe a complete package that asks precise questions.
- Help Mario with the packages he requested help for.
- See how to write a win32-loader frontend to easily configure a11y parameters
See mono's UI Automation/ATK accessibility bridge http://www.mono-project.com/Accessibility
GEM http://www.cdacmumbai.in/ http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/accessibility/
lios http://linux-intelligent-ocr-solution.googlecode.com/files/linux_Intelligent_Ocr_Solution_1.1.deb
- chewing-word, on alioth, licensing issue.
- petitboot, Bug#659668: ITP: petitboot -- A kexec based bootloader, integrate with brltty to make it an accessible bootloader. Or just wait for the grub version with integrated brltty.
afaik a11y support for mono is packaged, is there more to package / update or is testing still needed for this?
brailleblaster http://www.brailleblaster.org/
What is the status of this? the web page claims the repo is at https://googlecode.com/hg/ but that's an empty hg repo. Is developement happening somewhere else?
- odt2braille and odt2daisy, needs liblouisxml 2.3.0, or maybe libutdml is enough.
dae ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/MI/National_Accessibility_Portal/wvdwalt/dae-latest.tar.bz2
- magnifier magnifier.sourceforge.net (was waiting for lazarus 0.9.29, now available)
?OpenMary (http://mary.dfki.de/ , svn checkout https://mary.opendfki.de/repos/trunk)
Installation
More generic details on http://brl.thefreecat.org/wiki/Installer
- Tune accessibility support in the liveCD.
- Add brltty/speakup parameters preseed support?
- Create a webpage that generates preseed files according to the hardware selected by the user in a form.
- Another way is putting parameters in the iso itself:
- Add AT-SPI and Orca/gok to debian installer
Documentation
Add an accessibility section to http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines and tell debian-derivatives@lists.debian.org about it.
- Add an accessibility chapter to the developer's reference
- Add accessibility questions to the NM process.
- Add an "Accessible Event Howto".
Misc
- Add package tags: something like accessible-with::{at-spi,tty-screen-reader}, accessible-with::{braille,speech}, accessible-with::{gnome-orca,brltty,speakup}
- Add an accessibility tag to bugs (and thus cc-ed to debian-accessibility)
- Make accessibility bugs RC, or at least consider them with care during freeze?
- Add archive Accessibility section?
Rasterize console fonts (595696). Useful for both bigger and smaller fonts
Use personas: [http://www.aegis-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=53], [http://www.w3.org/WAI/redesign/personas]
Accessibility archive section?
- braille translation programs (could be text)
- dots (currently gnome)
- liblouis*
- natbraille
- screen readeers (usually admin)
- brltty (currently admin)
- screader (currently text)
- speakup (currently admin)
- espeakup (currently admin)
- yasr (currently admin)
- console-braille (currently utils)
- emacspeak (currently editors)
- speechd-el (currently editors)
- gnome (could be gnome)
- libgail-gnome-module (currently libs)
- gnome-accessibility-themes (currently gnome)
- gnome-orca (currently gnome)
- gnome-mag (currently x11)
- kde (could be kde)
- kmag (currently utils)
- kmousetool (currently utils)
- kmouth (currently utils)
- kttsd (currently utils)
- x11
- big-cursor (currently x11)
- xzoom (currently x11)
- input
- cellwriter (currently gnome)
- dasher (currently x11)
- gok (currently gnome)
- mousetweaks (currently gnome)
- gnome-mousetrap (currently gnome)
- mozilla-mozgest (currently web)
- wayv (currently x11)
- xvkbd (currently x11)
- speechrecognition (could be sound)
- sphinx2-bin (currently sound)
- gnome-voice-control
- perlbox
- speechsynthesis (could be sound)
- eflite, flite (courrently sound)
- espeak (currently sound)
- epos (currently sound)
- festival (currently sound)
- gnome-speech-*
- recite (currently sound)
- saydate, saytime (currently sound)
- speech-dispatcher, speech-tools (currently sound)
- speech-dispatcher-festival (currently sound)
- mbrola (currently sound)
- gespeaker (currently sound)
- daisy-player (currently sound)
- epos (currently sound)
- libttspico-utils (currently sound)
- freetts (currently java)
- sonic (currently sound)
- devel
- accerciser (currently gnome)
- ocr software?
- gocr (currently graphics
- hocr-gtk (currently graphics)
- tesseract-ocr (currently graphics)
- ttf-ocr-a (currently fonts)
- cuneiform (currently graphics)
Backports
- brltty for newer hardware support
speech-dispatcher with pico support (>> 0.7.1)
- gnome-orca