Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf
Hello,
To the list: feel free to propose ideas, I guess Cindy will sort it out
:)
Cindy Sue Causey, le mer. 10 juil. 2019 01:28:07 -0400, a ecrit:
> On 7/8/19, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
> > But I'd also like to showcase our community and interesting things that
> > have happened over the last year.
>
> So, can anyone think of anything about Debian-Accessibility that would
> fit into what Sam seeks? MANY people have never, for example, heard a
> screenreader in action.
I guess Sam could indeed make a demo of his workflow at his usual speed,
so people have an idea how efficient a blind person can be with a Debian
desktop, thanks to the work of the community.
Then it could be useful that Sam makes a demo at slow speed, so people
can get a grasp of what is going on between the normal desktop, the
screen reader behavior, and Braille/audio output. In case Sam doesn't
know, for people to see what he is reading on his Braille device, for
textmode he can enable window highlight in BRLTTY, and for graphical
mode he can enable the braille monitor by setting enableBrailleMonitor
to true in .local/share/orca/user-settings.conf
I'm thinking that a demo could be made of the compiz-reloaded ezoom
magnification with focus tracking available in Buster. This can be
started for instance by running a MATE desktop, running "compiz
--replace" to replace the marco window manager by compiz, running
ccsm and in the "Enhanced Zoom Desktop", in the "Focus Tracking" tab,
check "Enable focus tracking".
On the speech synthesis side, it can indeed be interesting to mention
the work done in Curitiba mentioned by Fernando Botelho. It can also
be interesting to mention that the University of Mons freed its mbrola
speech engine. The currently available voice files are not free, but
this opens up another way for free voices of good quality.
Samuel
Reply to: