Re: New to List

Cesar,

I am going to try out your Viacam project with one of my individuals at the
beginning of next week.

I would like to get a project going that would bring switch access to Gnome
via a programmable on-screen keyboard.

How can something like this get started?

Thanks!
Will

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM Cesar Mauri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Welcome William,
>
> I've been working with people with cerebral palsy for more than ten
> years and I maintain the Enable Viacam [1] open source project. Here in
> Spain I'm also involved in this project [2] (web page in Spanish, sorry)
> in which we try to improve the social participation of people with
> cerebral palsy through the use of technology.
>
> In my view, there is still a lot to be done and, in general,
> accessibility is always lagging behind the pace of innovation, even more
> in the FOSS arena. Unfortunately, most "state of the art" assistive
> technology is privative and, often, scandalously expensive, as you
> already know.
>
> As for speech recognition, we also had little success with people with
> cerebral palsy due to their speech disorders (dysarthria). In most cases
> we have to rely on other input methods such as alternative keyboards,
> mouses, joysticks or even switches and scanning techniques. Up to our
> knowledge, best solutions for specialised scanning access and AAC are
> only available for Windows and, in general, privative. One exception is
> SAW (Special Access to Windows) [3], very powerful but only for Windows
> and hard to use for most people. It would great if we had something like
> SAW but easy to use and available for FOSS environments. And this is
> just an example. Also open to collaborate.
>
> [1] http://viacam.org
> [2] http://aspacenet.aspace.org/
> [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sawat/
>
> Regards,
>
> César
>
>
> El 29/05/2015 a las 15:17, William Best escribió:
> > Eric,
> >
> > I would love to help you with your project where I can.  My strengths
> > are not in writing code per se, but I understand the issues you face.
> > I work with 120 individuals with all forms of disabilities.
> >
> > How successful have you been with using voice recognition using
> > Windows?  I have had limited success with voice recognition technology
> > in my work.  This is mostly due to the people who have physical
> > disabilities have cerebral palsy which also presents speech problems
> > in these cases.
> >
> > Access is difficult for folks with disabilities, and my goal is to
> > collaborate with others to create open source versions of some very
> > expensive propriety software systems.
> >
> > Could you send a video of you using your setup so I can visualize it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Will
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:06 AM Eric Johansson <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Welcome to the list. I joined because I am disabled and
> >     unfortunately the accessibility models currently available do not
> >     help me in the slightest. I was hoping to find the time to serve
> >     my own needs which I know would serve the needs of other people
> >     like myself with upper extremities disabilities and dependent on
> >     speech recognition.
> >
> >     Best laid plans etc cetera. :-)
> >
> >     Here's where I'm at and I could use some help.
> >
> >     the only really useful speech recognition environment right now is
> >     nuances naturally speaking followed closely by Microsoft.
> >     obviously the main problem is they only run on Windows.
> >
> >     I have set up a prototype of a working environment where I run
> >     Windows as a virtual machine dedicated solely to speech
> >     recognition. Then I have a bridge which transfers key codes or
> >     other types of speech events over to Linux from windows. Right
> >     now, I've been somewhat successful with injecting speech generated
> >     characters into Linux applications. I'm working on the next
> >     generation now and running into problems with uinput.  as soon as
> >     i fix those problems, using the community developed macro
> >     environment, we will have a reasonably useful speech recognition
> >     system driving Linux.
> >
> >     What I mean by reasonably useful is that I can drive emacs, write
> >     prose and a bit of code. With any luck, that would only be a
> >     stone's throw away from being able to execute code on the Linux
> >     side as a result of interpreting a grammar on the Windows side.
> >     The remote execution capability would put us on a parity with
> >     what's available on Windows.
> >
> >     Anyway, if you'd like to help, I would welcome assistance.
> >
> >
> >
> >     On May 29, 2015 8:29 AM, William Best <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > My name is William Best.  I am not sure if this is the right
> >     group to join
> >     > for how I would like to contribute.
> >     >
> >     > My passion/career involves helping people with developmental
> >     disabilities
> >     > get better access to technology.  Over the past year or so, I
> >     have been
> >     > experimenting with different Linux distributions to come up with a
> >     > low-cost, stable, and robust solution for the disabled people I
> >     work with.
> >     >
> >     > My goal is to help get features/apps that would help disabled
> >     people access
> >     > technology in a better way.
> >     >
> >     > Let me know if I am in the right group for this.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
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