[Olpcaustria] GNOME A11y: where do we need to improve? (Want input by 25-Jan)

[linaccess at yokoy.de]

hi, 
auf der gnome-accessibility-list wird grad drueber nachgedacht, welche gnome projekte bezueglich barrierefreiheit mehr pflege beduerfen bzw. welche anwendungen noch fehlen. wegen des olpcaustria projekts "headtracker" auch an diese liste... 

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:47:58 +0100
Francesco Fumanti <francesco.fumanti at gmx.net> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> First of all, thanks for making this possible.
> 
> At 11:11 AM -0500 1/17/08, Willie Walker wrote:

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> >Over the coming week, please set aside some time to look at
> >http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved.  It contains a large
> >list of stuff to do, but it represents a pretty complete list of things
> >people have mentioned over the past few years.

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> Cheap Head Mice? The adaptive Headpointers that I know of, use 
> special reference items weird by the user to track his movement. I 
> wonder whether a simple camera (webcam) working without a reference 
> item can be accurate enough to use it as headpointer. Does anybody 
> have any experience with "reference-less" headpointing?
> 
> About writing drivers for headpointers: do you have any headpointers 
> in mind? Some headpointers (usually the more expensive models) 
> present themselves as a normal mouse to the computer and consequently 
> should work with the mouse driver shipped by the operating: this has 
> the advantage of not requiring a specific driver (and maybe the 
> disadvantage of not being customizable).
> 
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we are working on a headtracker (-pointer, -mice, -whatever). The project hosted at
http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker
stucks a bit cause I am not able to write assembler or C code. The guys who are able do that do not have the time, now. If someone wants to join the project I would be glad. It is an OLPC project but should work for gnome or other unix desktops, too.

regards,
yokoy



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