/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/12/19/#ubuntu-accessibility.txt

mhall119okay, so I've got a small Python+Gtk app, now I want to make sure it's accessible, where should I start?02:59
UndiFineDmhall119, heh maybe by reading hajour 's wiki :D03:06
hajourhehe03:06
hajourattachment accessibility03:07
hajourhee Cheri703 03:07
UndiFineDmhall119, font size scalable ? suitable for simon ? braille ? speech dispatcher ? dasher ?03:08
UndiFineDcolor schemes03:08
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UndiFineDwhat sort of app is it mhall119 ?03:09
mhall119UndiFineD: no font, it's a panel with buttons03:11
mhall119buttons have tooltips though03:11
mhall119UndiFineD: got a link to hajour's wiki?03:11
UndiFineDdoes it plug-in with dbus / at-spi ?03:12
mhall119not any part that I did03:12
UndiFineDhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/hajour03:12
mhall119I thought gtk was already at-spi enabled03:12
UndiFineDwell, I am not sure, but I think that is needed to have text read out to you03:13
mhall119I'll have to test it with orca03:13
UndiFineDbe sure that colors are not close to another, for some red and green is same03:14
mhall119it should be using just the gtk theme03:14
UndiFineDlike black on black03:14
UndiFineDdo you have a screenshot ?03:15
UndiFineDit would make it easier :)03:15
mhall119yeah, one second03:15
mhall119http://img718.imageshack.us/i/xdglauncher.png/03:15
mhall119bottom panel03:16
hajourmhall119, make the colors from the applications must be contrast from each other and background03:16
mhall119it's just gtk buttons, I'm not doing any special visual stuff, so if the user's theme is visually accessible, then mine should be the same03:16
mhall119I just wasn't sure if there was something I had to do to make the button's tooltip text available to screen readers03:17
mhall119or what other accessible considerations I need to think of03:17
UndiFineDthe first icon, orange and yellow are to close to eachother03:18
mhall119that's the applications icon though, from it's .desktop file03:18
mhall119I'm not sure if there's an accessible icon theme that would have an alternative03:19
mhall119are there any good accessible icon themes?03:19
UndiFineDthe fourth icon, brain, might noth be recognisable as one , lines are maybe to fine03:19
mhall119again, I didn't make the art, I'm just displaying the icon specified in the app's .desktop file03:19
UndiFineDthe sudoku icon, purple on grey is hard to make out03:20
UndiFineDI do not know if there are accessible icons03:20
mhall119and the actual buttons show will depend on the runtime parameters, this app will show any set of items from the menu03:20
mhall119the screenshot is just it running against the /Games menu03:20
mhall119hajour: do you know or any good accessible icon themes?03:21
UndiFineDmhall119, hajour is my gf :)03:21
mhall119that wouldn't preclude her from knowing of any ;)03:22
UndiFineDtrue03:22
hajouri talk to UndiFineD  he typ what i say03:22
mhall119ah, ok, see that would make a difference03:22
mhall119did I meet either of you at UDS-N?03:22
UndiFineDI was remotely there, listening to a lot of sessions03:23
mhall119ok03:23
mhall119I'm the guy making Qimo03:23
mhall119you probably heard me talking as several points03:23
hajouri am just here from 30-11-2010 on ubuntu03:23
UndiFineDvery likely03:23
UndiFineDafter much persuasion03:24
hajourfor the accessibility  part03:24
UndiFineDhajour, has now become actively involved03:24
hajourmhall119, is it possible to design new icons here?03:24
UndiFineDmhall119, so you do a lot for kids stuff03:25
UndiFineDthat must be fun03:25
hajouri have set up the speechcontrol team 7 ore 8 days ago03:25
mhall119hajour: possible, but time would be a constraint03:25
mhall119UndiFineD: it is :)03:25
UndiFineDwe have four of our own03:25
mhall119heh, no thanks, 2 is plenty03:26
hajourwe got 4 girls03:26
UndiFineD:D03:26
mhall119hajour: if I do any custom icons, it'll only cover the default games we include in Qimo03:26
mhall119hajour: oh, I'm so sorry03:26
mhall119boys are easier03:26
hajourlol03:27
mhall119well, that's what I'm told anyway03:27
mhall119both of mine are a handful03:27
hajourhehe03:27
mhall119one of each03:27
UndiFineDunless they fight ... 03:27
mhall119but MichelleQ has probably already told you about them03:27
hajourhave you a link from icons mhall119 ?03:27
mhall119unless?  there's a time when they don't fight? how does that happen?03:27
mhall119hajour: what do you mean?03:27
hajoura link where icons stand to look ore there are good icons to use what we already have03:28
UndiFineDmhall119, yes, they do not fight when they think you 're not around03:28
mhall119UndiFineD: not mine03:28
UndiFineDthen suddenly they can be sweet03:29
hajouri just set up my angry eyes hehe03:29
mhall119hajour: my app just pulls entries from the menu, and displays the same icon and text used by the menu03:29
mhall119my apps doesn't itself have any artwork03:29
UndiFineDso an accessible icon theme ... :)03:29
UndiFineDI have to charter some artists03:29
hajourwe go look what we can do mhall119 03:32
mhall119thanks, I appreciate the help03:33
hajouralready busy with it03:33
hajouryour welcome03:33
mhall119I know charlie-tca was looking for a new icon theme for xubuntu, so maybe he's seen some that are better than others03:33
UndiFineDok I will ask when I see him03:33
hajourwe let you now when we know more mhall119 :)03:34
hajouri just cal you then in this room :)03:34
mhall119sure, I'll stay logged in03:35
hajourore UndiFineD 03:35
hajourtil later mhall119 :)03:35
mhall119good night03:35
hajourgood night mhall119 03:36
mhall119hajour: you have dyslexia?03:46
UndiFineDyes she does03:46
UndiFineDso do our daughters03:47
UndiFineDand ech somewhat differs :P03:47
mhall119I'm thinking of using this font as the default for Qimo: http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=11903:47
mhall119it's supposed to help make reading easier for people with dyslexia03:47
mhall119and also early-readers in general03:47
mhall119but, I'm not really sure how to test to make sure that's true03:48
mhall119I tried using it myself, and found it decent enough03:48
mhall119also, it has the option to use different glyphs for some letters, to make them less similar, but I'm not sure which alternates are good 03:49
UndiFineDit is playful03:50
UndiFineDjust changed my titlebars into it03:50
mhall119http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?&item_id=andika has some examples03:50
UndiFineDour eldest daughter would have trouble with it03:52
UndiFineDtoo many curves make the letters seem as one03:52
UndiFineDletters seem to dance03:54
mhall119is it more curvy than most?03:54
mhall119how about the new Ubuntu font, how's that for dyslexics?03:54
UndiFineDwe mostly use Ubuntu font :)03:54
UndiFineDreally nice03:54
mhall119okay, maybe I'll use that03:54
mhall119I'll probably include both at least03:55
mhall119just not sure which to use as default03:55
UndiFineDnot too small letters03:55
UndiFineD12px is alright03:55
mhall119ok03:55
mhall119I liked andika's spacing, it seemed to give letters more room03:55
mhall119especially in the vertical space03:56
UndiFineDbut I find the font bugging around 14px03:56
mhall119the ubuntu font you mean?03:56
UndiFineDyep03:56
UndiFineDhalf letters03:56
mhall119:(03:56
UndiFineDlike the g03:57
hajouri use font size 1603:57
UndiFineDthe curl at the bottom is sometimes lost03:57
hajourUndiFineD, already reported that03:59
PendulumAlanBell: no more bugs on website stuff (this includes wiki), remember? this was why we needed a liason with the design team. Someone needs to poke alejandra about it13:13
AlanBelloops14:04
PendulumAlanBell: s'cool. I'm going to talk to phillw about it when he gets online14:06
UndiFineDPendulum, that might be a while, i think he just fell asleep14:08
AlanBellI kind of wanted to point out the same issues being raised by other people independently14:11
AlanBelland tell those who raised them that it is a known problem14:12
UndiFineDPendulum, AlanBell here is head_victim :)14:12
head_victimHi?14:12
UndiFineDhe might be able to help as phillw is out14:13
head_victimWhat's the problem?14:13
PendulumUndiFineD: phillw is supposed to be liasing with the desgin team on website issues. that's why I'm poking him14:13
UndiFineDso ... head_victim cannot help in this ?14:15
PendulumUndiFineD: no. 14:15
Pendulumsorry head_victim14:15
UndiFineD:(14:15
head_victimThat's ok14:15
hajourAlanBell, can i talk to you for a moment.its not about the speechcontrol but about accessibility.:)21:33
AlanBellsure hajour 21:37
hajourAlanBell, i was ask to give advice to mhall119 .for his small Python+Gtk app21:38
AlanBellok21:38
AlanBellwhat does it do?21:39
hajourbut he need other buttons on that.because of this . a light purple background on a button application  with a almost same light color.21:39
UndiFineDhttp://img718.imageshack.us/i/xdglauncher.png/21:40
hajourcolorblind can not see that21:40
UndiFineDaccessible icons21:40
hajourso i was asking in design for a advice where to find other icons21:41
hajourbut i get no respons at all21:41
AlanBellok, firstly there is a totally awesome compiz plugin for simulating colour blindness21:41
AlanBellso you can see what a colour blind person would see21:41
UndiFineDaccessible  tooltips21:41
AlanBellsometimes you can fix an image by tweaking the color balance and adjusting the level of blue or something like that21:42
hajourthere where 24 persons in that room and i know a part of them where here on ubuntu doing things21:42
hajoura ok21:42
AlanBellwikimedia commons is a great source of Free artwork and icons21:43
hajourbecause there is need to be greater contrast true the colors21:43
AlanBellhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nuvola_icons21:43
hajourthank you AlanBell 21:43
UndiFineDmhall119, are you watching this ?21:44
hajourii know what they can see.i have asked when i was young on my cousin.he is colorblind21:44
AlanBellprotanopia is the most common type, that is a lack of perception of red21:45
AlanBellso as long as two colours have different blue and green values they can be seen21:45
hajourbut this link is very useful to give to people who need to change ore choose this kind of things21:46
hajourAlanBell, just a idea.but why not mail the link to everyone in ubuntu21:47
AlanBellI don't think everyone would like that21:48
hajourpeople who now not yet make things because they have not have enough knowledge.are possible later in time do make things/programs enz21:50
AlanBellthat is what the personas are for21:51
AlanBelleducational outreach to developers21:51
hajourthen it is good to put this link to the faisal persona i think21:51
hajourif i remember good he was colorblind21:52
AlanBellthere is information on that one already about the compiz plugin21:52
AlanBellthe Nuvola stuff has no special significance relating to colour blindness, just a bunch of pretty icons21:53
hajouryes it was faisal .just have checkt21:53
hajourstil mhall119  was not knowing about it and he is in the accessibility team if i am correct21:55
mhall119AlanBell: my problem is that I'm displaying .desktop entries21:56
mhall119which supply their own icon21:56
hajouri think it should be useful to have a page for that where that is put in21:56
mhall119so I would need an entire and complete accessible icon theme21:57
mhall119which I don't think is feasible at this point21:57
hajouri have asked in design but i dont have get any respons21:57
AlanBellmhall119: ah, gotcha21:57
mhall119mostly I wanted to make sure my apps was navigable/discoverable with screen readers21:57
AlanBellok, have you tried running it with orca?21:57
mhall119hajour: it would have to cover any icon any app could possibly choose, far too large in scope21:58
mhall119AlanBell: not yet, I've never used Orca before21:58
AlanBellok, give it a go, it is tricky21:58
AlanBellI would like to make this stuff simple enough for sighted people to use21:59
mhall119okay, upon running orca, it asks for the desired speech server, default, espeak or dummy21:59
AlanBellespeak21:59
AlanBellor default21:59
mhall119enable echo by word?21:59
mhall119what does that mean?21:59
AlanBellmhall119:  you should at this point turn off your monitor21:59
mhall119orca isn't even configured yet22:00
AlanBellecho by word is having it read back to you what you type when you hit space22:00
mhall119ok22:00
AlanBellmhall119: tough!22:00
mhall119oh geez, I've got to log out of gnome now?22:01
mhall119man, if orca is the pinnacle of accessibility, y'all got your work cut out for you huh?22:02
AlanBellfraid so22:02
mhall119okay, let me log out and back in and see what happens22:02
hajourmm AlanBell is the bug already fixt from orca with the echo?22:02
AlanBellhajour: I don't know about that bug22:03
hajouryou 2 the same words true each other22:04
hajouri have told it and it should reported.i not know how to tell in a bug report22:04
hajourto explain22:05
AlanBellcan you make a recording of it?22:05
hajourits not only by use but i have heard many complain about that22:05
mhall119okay, orca is consuming 100% cpu22:05
mhall119and audio is like talking on a cell phone in 198022:05
hajourUndiFineD, says he go to try it22:05
UndiFineDAlanBell, I can try, but chance is high I get logged out in an hour, so need to save stuff first22:06
hajourhe is busy with it now22:06
hajouro yes that happend the last time we where running orca22:07
AlanBellmhall119: the audio is a bit rubbish, in theory it should be possible to use a much higher quality voice, one that would not fit on the standard CD22:07
mhall119okay, I'm killing orca22:07
charlie-tcamhall119: sometimes killing and then restarting at-spi-registryd will fix the 100% cpu thing22:07
mhall119I haven't been able to understand a word it's said22:07
hajouryes because of the echo mhall119 22:07
AlanBellit should start with "welcome to orca"22:07
charlie-tcaAnd this is the best we have for the blind user!22:07
hajourmmm yes22:07
hajourthats why we are busy with the new speechprogram AlanBell UndiFineD  and i22:08
hajouraand the rest of the team22:08
hajourwe all working hard about it22:09
hajourcharlie-tca, i have asked for help in science but also there i get no respons22:09
hajouri mean if they have no time then its polite to say that i think22:10
charlie-tcaIn the meantime, we do have to have orca for the users, though22:11
hajourthen the echo have to be fixed and the crash after using orca from the pc22:11
mhall119I get like 1/4 second sound whenever I put my mouse over something22:12
mhall119it mostly just sounds like a tapping22:12
AlanBellin the orca preferences you can tell it not to speak the object under the mouse22:12
charlie-tcaI have used orca, there are many adjustments available in it. I have not gotten the echo, myself22:12
hajournow we have a big chance i am ofline here in a few time because orca is running now22:12
mhall119so far I haven't managed to get anything that doesn't sound like random noice22:13
mhall119noise22:13
hajouri have heard many complains about that charlie-tca the echo from people22:13
hajoursame here mhall119 22:14
AlanBelllet me record a bit, it isn't *that* bad22:14
hajourUndiFineD,  has just lost his desktop now because of orca22:14
mhall119okay, so this is going to sound harsh, but if orca is this bad, is there really any point in me spending time worrying about my app working with it?22:14
mhall119AlanBell: on my laptop it is22:15
hajourafter starting from audio22:15
hajour:( UndiFineD  is busy to try to fix his pc now22:16
charlie-tcaOrca is only important if you are calling it accessible22:16
mhall119you say it should say "Welcome to Orca"22:16
UndiFineDok, no way to record audio ... after starting audacity ocra crashed22:16
mhall119I get "weh" and that's it22:16
UndiFineDI just restarted at-spiregistryd as suggested22:16
UndiFineDit is 23:16 when it happened, so in an hour I expect to be logged out22:17
mhall119hold crap the man page for at-spi-registryd is all kinds of messed up22:17
hajouri have told it often but if they dont believe you .it has no use to repeat it every time thought22:18
hajourso that means in about a hour UndiFineD  is not here anymore because of orca22:19
hajourmm it just happend22:19
hajourfaster then we thought22:20
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/orca.ogg22:20
charlie-tcaAlanBell: is that faster than default?22:21
AlanBellno22:21
AlanBellI am not a speed listener22:21
AlanBellI understand some blind people can listen at x622:22
hajoursorry but i cant hear a word from it.yes i hear sound but its not understandable22:22
charlie-tcaI seem to listen slow here22:22
AlanBellhajour: it gets more understandable later in the file when I tweak the preferences a bit22:22
charlie-tcaI can understand almost every word. Perhaps it is not orca but the speakers?22:22
AlanBelloh and that is a bit of a rubbish recording22:23
AlanBellI just pointed my webcam at the speakers and recorded via audacity22:23
mhall119AlanBell: that's about 100x better than what I was getting22:23
hajourand then the fact the crash from the pc here wo have running orca jut a moment ago.and that is the second time this happend22:23
charlie-tcathe speakers and sound card can make a difference, I believe. 22:24
charlie-tcaOf three speaker sets, I have one that is almost clear with orca, even though I can hear music from all three sets.22:25
hajourwe have a surround speakers on the pc from UndiFineD 22:26
UndiFineDo/22:26
UndiFineDI love orca for this22:26
charlie-tcaDoes the voice always come from the same speaker on those, or does it bounce around?22:26
UndiFineDthis happens to me every time22:26
charlie-tcayes, orca will crash the system ... 22:27
hajourit was not the second i just heard from UndiFineD  but a lot more times22:27
mhall119espeak works find on the command line22:27
UndiFineDorca only comes from the 3 front speakers22:27
mhall119but orca doesn't get past the firsy syllable22:27
mhall119and I rarely get more than just a tapping sound22:28
hajourorca must be good for all people not a few22:28
UndiFineDthe really weird part is I get logged out, why does it do that .. I have 3,5 GB memory and always enough too spare22:30
UndiFineDit is not CPU power22:31
charlie-tcaI wonder what is really conflicting for you? 22:31
UndiFineDI have an offboard audio card recently bought creative one22:31
charlie-tcaHave you filed a bug for it? and is there a valgrind and stacktrace for it?22:31
mhall119does orca even work with Xfce?22:33
mhall119or is it Gnome only?22:33
charlie-tcayes, it works with xfce22:33
UndiFineDno crash report22:34
mhall119I gotta be honest, this hasn't made me eager to focus on accessibility22:34
mhall119:(22:34
AlanBelldoesn't make people eager to be blind either22:35
mhall119yeah, having a choice makes my life easier, I know22:35
hajourmhall119,  we (our team ) are working on it many hours for the new speechprogram22:35
mhall119but my time is still finite, and I can either work towards attainable goals, or unattainable ones22:35
hajourAlanBell, have put in also many hours for that22:35
mhall119hajour: what's it written in?22:36
UndiFineDmhall119, most likely to be an extention on simon listens22:36
AlanBelloooh, I have openMary working22:36
hajourwe should appreciate if the 1 from vedix would help us with a part22:36
UndiFineDc / c++ / python22:36
hajourgreat AlanBell 22:37
hajourmm sorry vedics22:37
AlanBellmhall119: attainable goals are the best ones22:37
mhall119well, I can offer help on the python part of it22:37
AlanBellmhall119: and you can ask here for other people to test your applications22:37
hajourthat should be wonderful mhall119 22:38
mhall119thanks AlanBell 22:38
UndiFineDI happily crash again :P22:38
hajourlol22:38
mhall119I've got to rename my application, then I'll ask for testers22:38
AlanBellI have 4 fantastic voices working22:38
AlanBellalthough one does sound a bit stoned22:38
hajourlol22:39
hajouro btw if it is necessary the European part of ubuntu is willing to help with the voices.many country s22:41
hajouralready have talked about it22:42
hajourfor encase when it is time it can be done22:42
hajourjust for information22:43
hajourhehe if i am not in chat from speechcontrol i do that sort of things22:44
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/openmary.ogg22:44
AlanBellyou can hear me typing the text for the next voice as I go through all four22:45
hajourfirst voice sounded better.second voice is echoing.third is very high not very convertible,fourth sounded like a very depressed person :P22:48
* AlanBell adds a fifth voice22:48
AlanBellthey are all a bit better than the recording indicates22:50
AlanBellactually with openMary it is an emotional engine so you can probably cheer them up a bit (not kidding)22:51
AlanBellyou can adjust how positive/negative they are being, passive/active and dominant/submissive22:52
charlie-tcaUndiFineD: orca --debug --debug-file=debug.txt   and add it to the bug report22:53
charlie-tcaJust attach the debug.txt file22:53
hajourmmm it sounds better on my eeepc orca then by UndiFineD  his pc its terrible22:54
hajourmm dutch ia not understandable on orca22:55
hajourits terrible22:55
hajourdont be angry XD i just report it .22:56
charlie-tcathat pins it down to a language, instead of just saying orca is bad.22:56
hajourbut its in english to on UndiFineD  his pc charlie-tca 22:57
hajourenglish terrible on UndiFineD  his pc22:57
UndiFineDlol, debug files have disappeared 22:57
UndiFineDle poof22:57
charlie-tcaThere is a bug report at gnome bugzilla to try and get better voices in it, I will try to find it22:57
hajourso that is not to pin on language22:58
charlie-tcahuh? no file at all...22:58
UndiFineDnone22:58
hajourpfff22:58
charlie-tcaWell, unless you get the orca developers to your pc, they won't be able to find the cause of that, then. 22:59
UndiFineDhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/545759/22:59
hajoura ok AlanBell i dit not know that from the emotional part.i was not come so far .because i tryed to get it understandable23:00
charlie-tcathat has the traceback in it. Attach to bug report, lets see what we can do with it23:00
charlie-tcaUndiFineD: make sure to include which version of ubuntu that is, and add apt-cache policy python   version23:01
hajourUndifined just is gone by orca again :(23:02
hajouri hate sharks :P23:02
UndiFineDo/23:03
UndiFineDback23:03
UndiFineDwhat was after pastebin ?23:03
charlie-tca<charlie-tca> that has the traceback in it. Attach to bug report, lets see what we can do with it23:04
charlie-tca<charlie-tca> UndiFineD: make sure to include which version of ubuntu that is, and add "apt-cache policy python"   version23:04
hajourmm AlanBell my chromium browser closed true listen mary ?!!!23:05
hajourand i have closed nothing by myself23:06
UndiFineDhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63762123:29
ubot2Gnome bug 637621 in speech "Orca crashes, logs me out" [Major,Unconfirmed]23:29
hajourcrap now UndiFineD  his pc spontaneous logs out every time after he has runes orca he now do it without running.23:45

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