/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/01/25/#ubuntu-accessibility.txt

PendulumI wonder if we could do a "buddy testing" sort of thing. Where people who would like to test, but can't break their systems due to a11y reasons, get a friend or work with a general tester one-on-one to test a11y00:00
Pendulummaybe having some people willing to do the guiding from the a11y side might get people over the "I don't understand a11y" hump more than test cases alone00:02
charlie-tcaThat might work. It's a good idea00:02
charlie-tcadasher is not working good either in natty00:03
PendulumI expect dasher to be a mess in Unity00:03
charlie-tcawell, that seems about right so far. I tried it again today00:03
PendulumI'm still trying to figure out how to get my hands on a machine that I can break00:03
charlie-tcaIt works fine, as long as you don't expect it to print any letters out00:04
charlie-tcaheh, we just keep trying00:06
Pendulumdoes it work in non-direct mode?00:07
Pendulum(don't know if you've tried both)00:07
charlie-tcanot at all today00:07
charlie-tcaI got the letters to zoom, though00:07
charlie-tcadirect and non-direct both failed00:08
Pendulum*nods*00:08
TheMusoPendulum: Yeah but Debian's testing doesn't really appear to be that visible to me, or I am just not looking harde enough.00:09
PendulumTheMuso: I did wonder about that.00:09
PendulumI'm starting a thread on gnome-a11y to ask what other distros do because I'm curious since they claim to test00:09
TheMusoOk.00:10
Pendulum(I'm copying it to ubuntu-accessibility to see if anyone of the lurkers there have ideas)00:11
TheMusook00:11
mhall119Pendulum: a better tweet might be "dows anybody know of a distro that gets a11y tested fully?"00:12
TheMusoIts worth mentioning that someone tried to subscribe to ubuntu-accessibility by emailing subscribe in the subject to the list address. I sent them a mail to put them in the right direction.00:12
Pendulumokay00:12
Pendulumbtw, am I the only person who always wants to pronounce a11y as ally?00:14
MichelleQerm, nope, I do00:14
TheMusoPersonally I'd rather use accessibility everywhere, but even I have started using a11y when writing, something I am not proud of. :p00:14
Pendulumheh00:14
TheMusoY say accessibility when talking00:14
TheMusos/Y/I/00:14
PendulumI use a11y more when typing because of my hands hurting00:15
TheMusoUnderstandable.00:15
* charlie-tca thought he was the only one disliking a11y in place of accessibility00:16
PendulumI also like it on twitter, but that's just because 140 characters is often fewer than I need ;)00:17
charlie-tcayup00:18
macoPendulum: i read it as "ally" frequently but have been known to say eh eleven why out loud00:19
Pendulummaco: congrats on job!00:20
macoPendulum: thanks!00:20
=== JackyAlcine is now known as JackyAlcine-AFK
charlie-tcaI am sorry, Pendulum. This does not seem to be one of my positive days00:35
Pendulumcharlie-tca: it's okay :)00:36
=== JackyAlcine-AFK is now known as JackyAlcine
freglhi, does anyone here have at-spi2 running?15:35
hajourhai fregl :)16:28
hajouri am not a programmer so i don't no what that is but maybe AlanBell  or cprofitt  knows it16:30
hajouriff i pinged the wrong persons then very sorry for that :)16:30
Pendulumfregl: TheMuso might have at-spi2 running, but he's asleep right now. API might also have it (dunno if he's still working, though, either)16:32
freglyep, I'm currentyl trying to get something to work on natty16:33
Pendulumhahaha16:33
freglbut I was hoping to start from a "works a bit" base16:33
Pendulumthere is no a11y on Natty yet16:33
PendulumTheMuso & co. are in the process of getting it written and working now16:33
Pendulum(essentially the framework isn't there yet)16:33
freglPendulum: how so? at least at-spi1 should work I thought?16:34
Pendulumfregl: Unity is not Gnome based and in the past the a11y framework was set-up on the Gnome level of things so was there for Ubuntu16:34
APIfregl, well, yes I have at-spi2 running16:34
APIanyway, AFAIK, natty will still use at-spi16:35
Pendulumso they're having to write the framework for apt-spi and at-spi2 to talk to within Natty16:35
freglAPI: ok, that is what I was hoping16:35
freglAPI: anything special for at-spi2? or do I just use system packages?16:35
freglalso accerciser keeps crashing16:36
PendulumAPI: feel free to correct me on if I'm wrong with what I'm saying about the framework and the lack of a11y in Natty16:36
fregluhhh, I just had orca repeating "preferences" in an endless loop :D almost annoying...16:36
freglwhat is the best way to debug apps/d-bus? I'm currently looking at d-feet, but that is not really the right tool16:37
APIfregl, any error message on accerciser?16:37
APIfregl, ah ok, I already had that issue16:39
freglAPI: http://pastebin.com/SFSQ7Z2T16:39
* API checking mail16:39
APIurgh16:39
APIfregl, about your last pastebin16:39
APIit seems that you are using the old pythong bindings16:39
APIas it shows bonobo warnings16:40
APIat-spi2 requires pyatspi216:40
fregllet me check16:40
APIthat doesn't use bonobo16:40
freglah, I have both installed16:41
freglcan I remove the pyatspi 1?16:41
freglseems like it16:41
APIfregl, not required, AFAIK, you could have both on the system16:42
charlie-tcaPendulum: I am trying to test that dasher bug of yours16:42
APIanyway, fregl sorry, but I need to go other place16:42
freglAPI: thanks, one step further, now I get: ImportError: No module named pyatspi.constants16:42
freglhehe16:42
fregland orca doesn't manager to importa pyatspi at all16:43
hajouro its something from orca is i have good understand it ?16:46
freglI doubt that this works, afaik I need the old pyatspi which makes use of the dbus stuff in the pyatspi2 package16:46
mozahello17:50
AlanBellhi moza 17:50
freglok, so I can start accerciser from the build dir but not after installing it...17:57
AlanBellnigelb: wotcha, how is goa?17:58
mozai arrive there on the advice of #ubuntu-women :) i'm a ubuntu user and i work on non-visual HCI directed toward visually impaired people.17:59
AlanBellthat is great moza, welcome to the team18:00
mozai'm not sure i'll be part of the team, but i'll start by being part of the channel if it is ok :)18:01
AlanBell:)18:03
mozabut thank you :)18:06
AlanBellbug 59920618:48
ubot2Launchpad bug 599206 in compiz-fusion-plugins-main "Typo in "protanopia" color filter" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/59920618:48
AlanBellthat is fixed in Natty18:57
Pendulummoza: of course it's okay :)18:58
moza:)18:59
Pendulummoza: can I ask where you work? (just curious to know where it's happening :) )19:01
mozaI work in Sweden19:01
mozain the Certec team at the university of Lund19:01
Pendulumah, cool :)19:02
AlanBello/ Pendulum 19:09
Pendulumhi AlanBell :)19:09
AlanBellI have been doing some work on the Faisal persona blog post19:10
AlanBelland my haggis is nearly cooked19:10
Pendulumno haggis for me :(19:10
PendulumI wonder if I can get away with scotch later and not choke on it...19:11
mozai've heard you're looking at personas?19:11
AlanBellwe are19:11
AlanBellhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Personas19:12
AlanBellthis one https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Personas/Faisal is nearly done19:12
mozai'll keep an eye on that and contribute if i can :)19:13
hajourAlanBell,  why the piece by faisall is left out from taping something heavy on the wrist ?20:17
hajouror binding?20:18
hajourhe has that arthritis20:19
hajouri had put that in i had informed that by my mother.she has the same disease20:20
hajourPendulum,  do you now why maybe?20:20
hajourand i have the first symptoms from it to. its in the family by me20:21
AlanBellhajour: because I haven't finished it yet, I started copying from the wiki and I haven't incorporated your additions made to the etherpad20:22
AlanBelland the wiki was an earlier version than the etherpad20:22
AlanBellI will pull in the additional text, but I don't want the short sentence structures in the blog post, but will try and use them in a secondary format or something20:23
hajoura  ok very sorry then AlanBell  will you accept my apology ?20:23
AlanBellof course hajour :)20:23
hajourok :)20:23
hajourcan i put some help in with the persona s  or is it already finished ?have not yet looked from the time from the last meeting20:25
hajourAlanBell, ^20:25
hajouri got time now20:25
AlanBellyes, but not Faisal at the moment20:25
hajourwich you want first to be worked on AlanBell ?20:25
AlanBellhow about Henrietta20:26
AlanBellI wanted the short simplified sentences for that one20:26
hajourok i go look to it now :)20:27
hajouri first go look or i can find it.from the last reinstalls.everything is moved on my eeepc 20:28
AlanBellhttp://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/henrietta20:28
UndiFineDI think I found the conference hotel for UDS-O20:32
hajourwell i we cant afford to pay a hotel . and i want to be sure that i can be useful20:37
=== charlie-tca__ is now known as charlie-tca
hajouri am still puzzling to yes and no's for to go to the conference.in financial and or i can be useful.and if i can over win my biggest barrier  to speak to so lot of people i not personally know20:44
hajourmy fear to do that i mean20:45
PendulumMy general theory is that anyone who thinks they might want to be there, might as well apply for sponsorship20:46
Pendulum(if they don't work for Canonical ;) )20:46
Pendulumif the people who vote on sponsorship think you should be there, they'll vote you in. If they don't you then have to decide if you can afford it on your own or get where you work to pay or whether you'd be okay participating remotely.20:48
PendulumOnce you get there, I found it a good group of people for someone who is shy20:48
AlanBellUDS is friendly20:57
Pendulumyep20:59
Pendulumbut also lets you be friendly on your terms20:59
hajourwell people had said to go to there to me21:09
hajoursorry for late response .i was busy to dig up some information by to read about it for the henrietta persona21:10
Pendulumhajour: I definitely think you should apply for sponsorship and to make it there if you can. I just can't garantee that you'll get sponsorship.21:10
hajouri don't think i can go there.i already get help from someone to pay my medicine.21:11
Pendulum*nods*21:12
hajourand i am so terrible to write that sort of mails for asking what cost so much21:12
PendulumSponsorship will pay for food, hotel, and travel if you get it. If you apply and get it and then can't go, you can tell them that. I'm happy to talk through the process once the sponsorship application is out (probably not for another month)21:13
hajouralways thinking that someone else could have more on that21:13
Pendulumand part of what I like about the way it's done with Canonical is that really what you talk about is what you do and why UDS helps you do it21:14
Pendulum(or would help you do it)21:14
mozaWhat is UDS?21:16
Pendulumthe Ubuntu Developer Summit21:16
Pendulumevery 6 months a whole bunch of people do work on Ubuntu and related to Ubuntu get together and plan what's going to happen for the next release cycle21:16
hajourwell i sometimes also not know the words in English also a problem21:17
hajouri cant put the words on the laptop for look it up then21:17
Pendulumhajour: kinouchou was at the Brussels UDS and she speaks less English than you do (I think). 21:18
PendulumAnyway, it's not a decision you'd have to make now.21:18
hajourPendulum,  do you think i really could be helpful there?21:19
Pendulummoza: it's a broad definition for developer, though. I've been twice and I've never written any code for Ubuntu ;)21:19
Pendulumhajour: I think you could have a new perspective that people there haven't seen before and it would be good to have.21:20
hajourmmm ok21:20
hajouralso i cant eat food with chemicals in it.21:21
PendulumI have no idea if the people who decide sponsorship would agree, but I do strongly believe in trying for it and seeing what happens21:21
hajoursome from them i could be die from21:22
mozaok, thanks for the explanation Pendulum :)21:22
hajouri have troubles sometimes also with the short cuts moza :)21:22
charlie-tcaI am hoping to get to go to UDS again21:23
Pendulumhajour: I can honestly say they've been very helpful on my physical access needs and I know some people with dietary needs who've had luck.21:23
PendulumI have no idea what things will be like for the Budapest hotel, though21:24
kinouchouPendulum hi21:24
Pendulumhi kinouchou :)21:24
hajourthen i have to know it 2 months before because i need a special passport because of my medicine.i dont want to come in jail21:24
Pendulumthat might be the hardest bit21:24
kinouchouhajour: where you live?21:24
hajourmy meds fall under the drug law21:24
hajournetherlands21:25
kinouchouoki21:25
kinouchoumoza: you came at FOSDEM?21:25
hajourthere is 6 weeks before needed but sometimes it takes longer to get it.so thats why 2 months21:25
mozakinouchou, no, not at all. I'm not that much going to open-source conferences. i've been to conferences on haptics and i'll probably go to conferences on HCI if i get papers published...21:26
kinouchou:(21:26
mozabut i guess i could try open-source conferences next year, after my mid-PhD exam, if i get something published around open-source.21:26
mozaaround participatory design. i'll have to think about it.21:27
kinouchouPendulum: I go to FOSDEM for ubuntu'ss booth and accessibility's booth21:28
Pendulumkinouchou: that's wonderful!21:29
hajourmoza,  you work on visually impaired people i saw 21:29
kinouchoufor ubuntu it's with ubuntu-be and ubuntu-hl21:29
mozayes hajour :)21:29
Pendulumhajour: I just realised I have no idea if any of my meds would be an issue entering hungry because I've never been asked about them entering any other border.21:29
mozafor VIP :) very important personalities :)21:30
hajourwell i would suretenly look in it or you need a medical passport Pendulum 21:31
hajourhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/hajour  << moza 21:31
JanChungary is part of the EU, so for most meds it should be okay I think21:31
Pendulumtbh, I don't remember them asking me about medications last time I went to Hungary21:31
hajourit depends on what meds you use Pendulum 21:32
kinouchouI go to hungary for UDS \o/21:32
Pendulumkinouchou: you will! yay! 21:32
hajourcongrats kinouchou 21:32
kinouchouthanks hajour 21:32
Pendulumhajour: yeah, I"m on some meds that might be questioned. But I'm likely to just go and hope to not have a problem.21:33
JanCof course if you use stuff that's often used for non-medical purposes, a special medical passport is a good idea21:33
kinouchouit's my present for christmas21:33
Pendulumyeah, I don't use that stuff21:33
Pendulumat least not outside of The Netherlands21:33
JanClol21:33
Pendulumseriously. I go to Amsterdam for 'pain holidays'21:33
Pendulumor at least I used to21:34
mozaThank you for the presentation hajour :)21:34
hajourwell i had put the medical thing in it because for to help with accessibility moza 21:35
mozai understand hajour :)21:35
hajourhave you seen the sub page to moza ? from accessibility sub page i mean on my wiki?21:36
hajourthere are standing issues and possible solutions on it21:36
hajouralso for bad sight21:37
mozai'll look at that.21:37
hajourthat i had noticed the first 2 weeks  that i came here21:37
hajourand have written the idea that was pop up in my head to solve them21:38
mozathat's wonderful that you write there the problems you encounters and the ideas you have :)21:38
hajourwe are already busy with a new program named speechcontrol for open source21:39
hajourlinks from that are also on my wiki page21:39
mozaJust to clarify : i am not working on accessibility in ubuntu. I am working on projects for Visually Impaired People in two different projects.21:39
hajourAlanBell, and Pendulum  have helpt also a lot with the program for get permission and sort things out21:40
mozathat's good :)21:40
hajourwell i assume its open source i hope anyway21:41
Pendulumhajour: you know that with Ubuntu you don't need permission to write programs, right? You can just start a project and do it.21:41
hajourwell you helpt to get it official the chat room and also phillw helped a lot21:41
hajourthat was what i mend21:42
Pendulumah21:42
mozahajour, part of one project will be open-source, and the other project should give an open-source project too. But it is all research prototypes for now, so nothing is out yet.21:42
hajourand that was a lot of work from what i have seen21:42
mozaan open-source application* sorry.21:42
hajourok .well the mean thing i did was to get so many people in the team who had worked on speech programs21:43
hajourfrom all kind of programs21:44
hajourto get them to talk to each other21:44
hajourwhat 1 person not in succeed maybe many will succeed .by to put all knowledge by each other 21:45
hajouralso AlanBell  have pulled people in with the same goal21:45
hajourand UndiFineD  and bedahr21:46
hajourits the whole team what make it to a working team21:47
hajourin beginning AlanBell  and i had some difference opinions but i know now him a little better .and sorry i was such a difficult person in the beginning AlanBell :)21:48
hajourwanted to say that al for weeks .21:49
moza:)21:50
hajourbut moza  maybe if its alright .i am not so long here so . we could help you with your program .is that ggood AlanBell  and Pendulum ?21:51
hajourgood i mean21:51
hajourthey are very busy and active people here AlanBell  and Pendulum  most of this team .21:52
mozaoh, thank you hajour, but i am working already full time on the two projects, and they both involve people who are paid for it. As soon as they will have something to publish i'll probably speak about it so that anybody can contribute :)21:52
hajourno i mean we help you21:53
mozaif Visually impaired people are in sweden, i'm interested in contacts, but other than that.21:53
Pendulummoza: feel free to poke people here when you want new contributers21:53
mozai understand hajour :)21:53
mozaok Pendulum :)21:53
Pendulumalso, you might want to try e-mailing the e-mail list just in case there are VI people in Sweden on it ;)21:53
mozai'll give you links since you insist :) one project is european : Haptimap http://www.haptimap.org/21:54
hajouri thing not take it personal.i dont work on not open source projects.its a principal thing21:54
mozait is about making maps more accessible non-visually.21:54
hajourmaps like files?21:55
mozamaps like the geographical maps.21:55
mozathe other project is a national project in sweden, a drawing program for school children with force-feedback.21:55
mozahttp://www.certec.lth.se/forskning/hipp_haptik_i_pedagogisk_praktik/21:55
hajourgreat just what i have said in the sub page from accessibility21:57
hajourwell in a surten way i think21:57
hajouryes it is just have see the link.i did not know it already was there21:59
hajourlearn some new again21:59
hajourwell i was started this projct because there was a program here in netherland not very good but still.not open source it cost 1295 euro to buy it.22:00
mozaI will have to leave for now, but i will probably come back here later.22:01
hajourmost people who have issues cant afford that22:01
hajourok thanks for the talking moza .22:01
hajourlooks very good the programs22:02
hajourmmm AlanBell  and Pendulum  .how can a program be open source if there is payed for it or have i read it wrong ?22:07
Pendulumhajour: open source just means that if you have the program you also have access to the source code and can change things as you wish22:08
Pendulumthere's nothing that says you can't have to pay for the program, just many open source programs are free22:08
Pendulumwell, are free as in cost22:09
hajourbut speech control stays a program where people not have to pay for right?22:09
hajouri mean it stays in reach from people who have no almost not or have no money22:10
Pendulumwell, you control SpeechControl. You can license it so that people have to keep any derivative programs open source, but I'm not sure you can control if they charged people to sell the derivative programs.22:10
AlanBellthe free market sorts it out22:12
Pendulumyeah22:12
AlanBellyou *can* charge for Free software, however you are competing against other people who can give the same code away22:12
hajourbut then there is still the danger it will become a program just for fun or make easy working for people who not really need it22:13
AlanBellno danger as the source is free22:13
AlanBellone sec, I will find an article about this22:13
hajourok22:13
AlanBellhttp://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html22:14
macohajour: for example, xchat charges money for their windows binary installers but gives free access to source code. if a windows user doesn't want to pay, they can compile it. however, silverex.org offers free windows binaries from the xchat source code anyway, which is where the competition comes in22:15
hajouri have a lot of pm s from people who really need a program like this and looking forward to it that it really go work.how longer i work on it how more i am convinced ans realize how much it means for other people 22:15
Pendulumhajour: that's why I work on accessibility in general. (I just know my skills are better suited to what I'm currently doing than to coding)22:16
charlie-tca+122:18
hajouri am still looking for what i  can do and fit in best for study and work. either way speechcontrol i eat sleep and live with it22:18
Pendulumhajour: I honestly suggest that you make sure you don't eat, sleep, and live with it for too long. You will burn out. And then you will have issues. And then you may or may not come back. (This is the voice of experience)22:19
hajouri go read the link AlanBell 22:19
hajouri mean with that .its very important for me it will go work Pendulum 22:20
PendulumI know. But you will do no one favours by burning yourself out. And it's impossible not to without giving yourself a break from time to time22:21
PendulumAlanBell can back me up on this as he's seen me go through this in the time I've known him22:21
hajourAlanBell,  all lines in that link are at touched by each other .and very small fonds . sorry i cant read it good22:22
hajourbut i let it in browser and ask UndiFineD  to read it for me22:23
macohajour: try hitting ctrl+ a few times to make big font22:23
hajouralready done maco 22:23
hajourits alright i have that often i am used on that 22:24
JanChajour: so you have a living SpeechControl already !!22:25
JanC ;-)22:25
hajourwell Pendulum  i got a helper who comes 3 times a week for me and the kids.i always was unsure and down.because i felt myself not useful .  she said i completly become different when i started working on accessibility here and on speech control.what special care helpers was not in succeed .is succeed by ubuntu. in 2 months22:27
AlanBellalso read the GPL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html22:27
hajourand they had try it for many many years22:28
hajouryes JanC  but that living speechcontrol is 13 hours away a day 5 days a week22:28
hajourAlanBell,  the license from speechcontrol is good right?22:29
hajourthe choice22:30
Pendulumhajour: don't spend more than 40 hours a week on it. Think of it like a fulltime job like that.22:36
PendulumI don't know anyone who can spend 13 hours a day, 7 days a week on anything without burning out eventually.22:37
Pendulumeven 13 hours a day 5 days a week is very difficult22:37
Pendulumand that's without also having kids!22:37
hajouri will look for it.also if i work to long my team kicks me to bed :)sort of speaking22:42
Pendulumhajour: good.22:42
Pendulumnot that anyone here has ever had to tell me to go to bed or eat. honest22:43
* Pendulum looks innocent22:43
hajourhave sometimes the feeling i got many dads and moms here XD22:43
hajourhehe22:43
hajouri going to get something to drink :) brb22:44
AlanBellhajour: not sure what the speech control license ended up as, I know a lot of the component parts have a complicated mix of licenses22:46
* AlanBell laughs at Pendulum's innocent look22:46
PendulumAlanBell: :P22:47
hajourwell most have suggest to put GPL 3 on it so that's what on speechcontrol now  well phillw is busy with that.but its already announced on the wiki from speechcontrol22:57
hajourAlanBell, ^22:57
JackyAlcineYup, AlanBell, we've torn down licenses from Julius and other components and found out how they could comply to the GPL3 standard. 23:34

Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!