Bug#883335: RFP: arasuite -- set of tools useful for working with people with communication disabilities
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : arasuite
Version : 2.2.4
Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
* URL : http://www.arasaac.org/software.php?id_software=2
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
Description : set of tools useful for working with people with
communication disabilities
Long description:
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AraSuite is a set of tools (previously as separate projects: AraWord,
TICO, AraBoard...) useful for working with people with disabilities,
particularly those related with communication. That requires the use of
augmentative and adaptive communication systems that combine pictograms
and words as related concepts.
On the one hand, TICO is a tool for the design and execution of
interactive communication boards. Communication boards are highly used
in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) environments.
On the other hand, AraWord is a word processor that combines pictograms
and text to help disabled people.
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Please also include as much relevant information as possible.
Source can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arasuite/
The GNU/Linux version don't generate the start script, but it can be
create as following (I take that from the source:
https://sourceforge.net/p/arasuite/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/build/launch-scripts/tico.sh)
#!/bin/bash
cd /PATH_TO_JAR/
JAR="FILE.jar"
java -Xmx256m -Djava.library.path=libs -jar $JAR $*
The first problem is that it is all in Spanish language when you start.
When you have installed it you can change it to your language, if
exists, or to English.
After you have installed araword (part of arasuite) you must download
and install pictograms (there is a sub-menu that do it automatically).
I have found that the Italian association SoDiLinux have insert the
araword into their CD/DVD for the Italian schools:
https://sodilinux.itd.cnr.it/index.php/progetto-araword/download-araword
For example, consider answering the following questions:
- why is this package useful/relevant? is it a dependency for
another package? do you use it? if there are other packages
providing similar functionality, how does it compare?
I think it can be a must have package in Debian and Debian Edu, it can
be used as an accessibility tool for disable people.
I have installed it for a school. I have see there are a lot of schools
and people that use it for easily communicate with people with
communication disabilities. And I don't have found something comparable
in Debian repository.
I don't use it but I think that it can be very useful for a lot of people.
The software is developed by the Aragon Government using UE found.
- how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team
(check list at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams)? are you
looking for co-maintainers? do you need a sponsor?
I don't want to package and maintain it. I want only to report this
suite very useful and very used in the world.
Ciao
Davide
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