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GNOME Talks! Part 3

Submitted by stro on Sat, 2003-05-24 01:53. Gnome Accessibility

In the third (MP3 Audio) of a four-part series about Gnopernicus from the American Council of the Blind, Sun accessibility engineer Marc Mulcachy demonstrates Nautlius and gedit. He also makes a note about the complaints of doing these demostrations using a speech synthesizer that is no longer available, so for this demonstration and the next he will be using of the DecTalk speech synthesizer. He also demonstrates the FreeTTS speech synthesizer.

Also this week Glynn Foster presented some screenshots showing new configuration capplets for the GNOME accessibility features. The first shows a capplet for choosing which accessability features to enable, and the second shows a capplet for controlling the visual bell feature. Also Calum Benson highlighted some of the work being done on a new applet to show the status of various accessibility features.

Re: GNOME Talks! Part 3

Submitted by Johannes on Wed, 2003-05-28 16:17.

I haven't really "followed" the development. I've just played around with gnopernicus & friends after listening to Marc's presentation.

The developers themselves call their software "experimental". So, although it is a promising project, it's definitely not yet suited for the average non-technical user.

But if your friend uses Emacs, than he's certainly not of that kind. Installing gnopernicus doesn't take a big effort. Basically you need gnome-speech (you may have to recompile it to get the viavoice driver), then you have to install gnopernicus and set the gconf key /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility to "true". After that is should work.

But keep in mind that gnopernicus is not a replacement for Emacspeak or speakup. It can only handle applications that support the Gnome accessibility framework. Other apps remain completely silent. But I guess that Emacsspeak and gnopernicus can coexist painlessly.

In theory, both Mozilla and Java Swing apps are supported as well. But accessibility for Mozilla seems to be fairly incomplete (as of Mozilla 1.3.1) and the Java access bridge didn't work at all for me.

As I wrote before, I consider presenting gnopernicus to a broader public premature. But at the same time I thank Mark for the series as it gave me the chance to share a blind user's computing experience. I.e. I switched off the monitor to see how far I would get with nothing but speech output. I must confess I didn't get too far. Partly because I simply wasn't used to it but also because gnopernicus is still in an early phase of development.

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