Re: devel/debian-accessibility: Proposed initial content
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:34:04AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
>
> [Please CC me, I'm not (yet?) subscribed.]
>
> Initiated by a discussion I've just had with Andreas Tille, I finally
> sat down to write up some project page describing the Debian Accessibility
> effort to enhance the visibility of the whole effort and maybe draw some more
> attention towards it.
Here is a patch to build valid HTML pages, and some unnecessary stuff
is removed.
Denis
diff -ur debian-accessibility.orig/Makefile debian-accessibility/Makefile
--- debian-accessibility.orig/Makefile 2004-04-03 15:55:14.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-accessibility/Makefile 2004-04-03 15:57:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -8,6 +8,3 @@
include $(WMLBASE)/Make.lang
-index.$(LANGUAGE).html: index.wml $(TEMPLDIR)/template.wml \
- $(TEMPLDIR)/recent_list.wml
-
diff -ur debian-accessibility.orig/index.wml debian-accessibility/index.wml
--- debian-accessibility.orig/index.wml 2004-04-03 15:55:20.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-accessibility/index.wml 2004-04-03 15:57:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
#use wml::debian::template title="Debian-Accessibility"
-#use wml::debian::recent_list
{#style#:<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />:#style#}
<H2>Project description</H2>
diff -ur debian-accessibility.orig/software.wml debian-accessibility/software.wml
--- debian-accessibility.orig/software.wml 2004-04-03 15:55:27.000000000 +0200
+++ debian-accessibility/software.wml 2004-04-03 16:05:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -7,14 +7,13 @@
<h3><if "<get-var url>"
<a href="<get-var url>" name="<get-var tag>"><get-var name></a>
<a name="<get-var tag>"><get-var name></a>></h3>
-<P>
%body
-</P>
<restore name tag url/>
</define-tag>
<h2><a id="speech-synthesis" name="speech-synthesis">Speech Synthesis and related APIs</a></h2>
<a11y-pkg name="EFlite" tag=eflite url="http://eflite.sourceforge.net/";>
+<P>
A speech server for <A href="#emacspeak">Emacspeak</A> and
<A href="#yasr">yasr</A> (or other screen readers) that allows them to
interface with <A href="#flite">Festival Lite</A>, a free text-to-speech
@@ -24,8 +23,10 @@
<P>
Due to limitations inherited from its backend, EFlite does only provide
support for the English language at the moment.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Festival Lite" tag=flite>
+<P>
A small fast run-time speech synthesis engine. It is the latest
addition to the suite of free software synthesis tools including
University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System and
@@ -35,9 +36,11 @@
</P>
<P>
It currently only supports the English language.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Festival" tag="festival"
url="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/";>
+<P>
A general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed
at the <A href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/";>CSTR</A> [<i>C</i>entre for
<i>S</i>peech <i>T</i>echnology <i>R</i>esearch] of
@@ -53,8 +56,10 @@
Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone
speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable
speech from text.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="recite" tag="recite">
+<P>
Recite is a program to do speech synthesis. The quality of sound produced
is not terribly good, but it should be adequate for reporting the occasional
error message verbally.
@@ -66,9 +71,11 @@
Recite can perform a subset of these operations, so it can be used to
convert text into phonemes, or to produce an utterance based on vocal
tract parameters computed by another program.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Speech Dispatcher" tag="speech-dispatcher"
url="http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd";>
+<P>
Provides a device independent layer for speech synthesis.
It supports various software and hardware speech synthesizers as
backends and provides a generic layer for synthesizing speech and
@@ -79,6 +86,7 @@
and application specific user configurations are implemented in a device
independent way, therefore freeing the application programmer from having
to yet again reinvent the wheel.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<H2><A name="i18nspeech">Internationalised Speech Synthesis</A></H2>
@@ -151,6 +159,7 @@
<H2><A id="emacs" name="emacs">Screen review extensions for Emacs</A></H2>
<a11y-pkg name="Emacspeak" tag="emacspeak"
url="http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/";>
+<P>
A speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see
to work directly on a UNIX system. Once you start emacs with
emacspeak loaded, you get spoken feedback for everything you do. Your
@@ -159,18 +168,22 @@
written in tcl to support the DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice
speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for separate
speech server packages such as emacspeak-ss or <A href="#eflite">eflite</A>.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="speechd-el" tag="speechd-el"
url="http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-el";>
+<P>
An Emacs client and an Elisp library to
<A href="#speech-dispatcher">Speech Dispatcher</A>. It provides a complex
speech interface to Emacs, focused especially on (but not limited to) the
blind and visually impaired users. It allows the user to work with Emacs
without looking on the screen, using the speech output produced by the
synthesizers supported in Speech Dispatcher.
-</deb>
+</P>
+</a11y-pkg>
<h2><a id="console" name="console">Console (text-mode) screen readers</a></h2>
-<deb name="BRLTTY" tag="brltty" url="http://mielke.cc/brltty/";>
+<a11y-pkg name="BRLTTY" tag="brltty" url="http://mielke.cc/brltty/";>
+<P>
A daemon which provides access to the Linux console for a blind
person using a soft braille display.
It drives the braille terminal and provides complete screen review
@@ -178,6 +191,7 @@
</P>
<P>
The following display models are currently (as of version 3.4.1-2) supported:
+</P>
<UL>
<LI>Alva (ABT3xx/Delphi)</LI>
<LI>BrailleLite (18/40)</LI>
@@ -194,6 +208,7 @@
<LI>Videobraille</LI>
<LI>VisioBraille</LI>
</UL>
+<P>
BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications
wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for
incoming TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library
@@ -204,15 +219,19 @@
functionality is for instance used by <A href="#gnopernicus">Gnopernicus</A>
to provide support for display types which are not yet support by Gnopernicus
directly.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Screader" tag="screader"
url="http://www.euronet.nl/~acj/eng-screader.html";>
+<P>
The background program screader reads the screen and puts the information
through to a software Text-To-Speech package (Like
`<A href="#festival">festival</A>') or a hardware speech synthesizer.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Speakup" tag="speakup"
url="http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html";>
+<P>
The kernel package
<A href="http://packages.debian.org/kernel-image-2.4.24-speakup";>kernel-image-2.4.24-speakup</A>
contains a Linux kernel patched with speakup, a screen reader for the Linux
@@ -225,6 +244,7 @@
</P>
<P>
Speakup currently supports the following hardware speech synthesizers:
+</P>
<UL>
<LI>DoubleTalk PC/LT</LI>
<LI>LiteTalk</LI>
@@ -238,6 +258,7 @@
</UL>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Yasr" tag="yasr" url="http://yasr.sourceforge.net/";>
+<P>
A general-purpose console screen reader for GNU/Linux and
other Unix-like operating systems. The name "yasr" is an acronym that
can stand for either "Yet Another Screen Reader" or "Your All-purpose
@@ -256,6 +277,7 @@
maintains a virtual "window" containing what it believes to be on the
screen. It thus does not use any features specific to Linux and can be
ported to other Unix-like operating systems without too much trouble.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<H2><A id="gui" name="gui">Graphical User Interfaces</A></H2>
<P>
@@ -266,13 +288,16 @@
</P>
<H2><A id="gnome" name="gnome">GNOME Accessibility Software</A></H2>
<a11y-pkg name="Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface" tag="at-spi">
+<P>
This package contains the core components of GNOME Accessibility.
It allows Assistive technology providers like screen readers to
query all applications running on the desktop for accessibility
related information as well as provides bridging mechanisms to support
other toolkits than GTK.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="The ATK accessibility toolkit" tag="atk">
+<P>
ATK is a toolkit providing accessibility interfaces for applications or
other toolkits. By implementing these interfaces, those other toolkits or
applications can be used with tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and
@@ -283,8 +308,10 @@
in package <A href="http://packages.debian.org/libatk1.0-0";>libatk1.0-0</a>.
Development files for ATK, needed for compilation of programs or toolkits
which use it are provided by package <A href="http://packages.debian.org/libatk1.0-dev";>libatk1.0-dev</A>.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="gnome-speech" tag="gnome-speech">
+<P>
The GNOME Speech library gives a simple yet general API for programs
to convert text into speech, as well as speech input.
</P>
@@ -292,18 +319,23 @@
Multiple backends are supported, but currently only the
<A href="#festival">Festival</A> backend is enabled in this package; the
other backends require either Java or proprietary software.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="Gnopernicus" tag="gnopernicus"
url="http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html";>
+<P>
Gnopernicus is designed to allow users with limited or no vision to
access GNOME applications. It provides a number of features, including
magnification, focus tracking, braille output, and more.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<H2><A id="input" name="input">Non-standard input methods</A></H2>
<a11y-pkg name="dasher" url="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/";>
+<P>
Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural
continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system
wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example,
+</P>
<UL>
<LI>on a palmtop computer</LI>
<LI>on a wearable computer</LI>
@@ -312,15 +344,18 @@
<LI>when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by
eyetracker).</LI>
</UL>
+<P>
The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text
as fast as normal handwriting - 25 words per minute; using a mouse,
experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.
-</PI>
+</P>
<P>
Dasher uses a more advanced prediction algorithm than the T9(tm) system
often used in mobile phones, making it sensitive to surrounding context.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
<a11y-pkg name="gok" url="http://www.gok.ca/";>
+<P>
GOK [<i>G</i>NOME <i>O</i>nscreen <i>K</i>eyboard] is a dynamic onscreen
keyboard for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It features Direct
Selection, Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning access
@@ -332,4 +367,5 @@
keyboards to be modified and new keyboards to be created. The access
methods are also specified in XML providing the ability to modify existing
access methods and create new ones.
+</P>
</a11y-pkg>
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