From hzoebelein at gmail.com Mon Jul 14 17:17:59 2008 From: hzoebelein at gmail.com (Hans Zoebelein) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:17:59 +0200 Subject: [Fwd: [emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop] Talk Announcement: Developing Accessib...] Message-ID: <487B8A47.6020708@gmail.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop] Talk Announcement: Developing Accessib... Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:17:39 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:17:45 -0700 (PDT) From: T. V. Raman To: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu For those of you in Silicon Valley, Charles Chen and I will be giving a talk on developing accessible Web 2.0 applications as part of the Google Open Source Series --- see details below. This will be a hands-on tutorial on ARIA-enhancing Web 2.0 applications using Google AxsJAX , and is a follow-up to the talk given at Google I/O . A video of this talk will be posted later on the Web. Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Charles Chen & T.V. Raman Want to learn more about creating accessible Web 2.0 applications from the creators of Fire Vox and Emacspeak ? If you are nearby Google's Mountain View, California, USA Headquarters on Monday, July 14th, please join us for Charles Chen and T.V. Raman's presentation Enhancing Web 2.0 Accessibility via AxsJAX. They will take you through a hands on tutorial on Google-AxsJax , an Open Source framework for injecting usability enhancements into Web 2.0 applications. Among other topics, Charles and T.V. will cover an overview of AxsJAX's developer tools, enabling eyes-free interaction for web applications and iterative design processes for accessibility improvements. They will also let you know the secret to getting a cool t-shirt with the Google logo printed in Braille. Like all sessions of the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series, this session will be open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 PM and light refreshments will be served. All are welcome and encouraged to attend; guests should plan to sign in at Building 43 reception upon arrival. For those of you who cannot join us in person, the presentation will be taped and published along with all public Google Tech Talks. -- Posted By T. V. Raman to emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop at 7/14/2008 08:17:00 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dave at mielke.cc Wed Jul 16 23:57:52 2008 From: dave at mielke.cc (Dave Mielke) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:52 -0400 Subject: BRLTTY-3.10 has been released. Message-ID: <20080716235752.GJ8935@gamma.private.mielke.cc> Release 3.10 of BRLTTY is now available. It can be downloaded from BRLTTY's website, which is at: http://mielke.cc/brltty/ Select "Download", and then "Current Release". The major changes from release 3.9 to release 3.10 are as follows: The core and drivers (excluding text tables) are now Unicode-based. The DESCCHAR function now shows (if possible) the character's name. Linear cuts no longer include newline characters. Specifying the braille device as "serial:" now defaults to the first serial device. Add a driver for the Braille Sense. Bring the French manual fully up-to-date (was at 3.6). Linux-specific changes: Don't unnecessarily wake up USB devices when searching. Albatross braille driver changes: Correctly handle keys which send their code on both press and release. Baum braille driver changes: Bind TL1+TR3 to the BACK funct5ion. EuroBraille braille driver changes: Rewritten. Add support for the Iris PC keyboard. Add key binding to do Shift+Tab directly (dots 235 + space). New EsysIris key bindings: VK_L34 -> FREEZE VK_L67 -> HOME FreedomScientific braille driver changes: New PAC Mate key bindings: routing key + left wheel press -> SETLEFT routing key + right wheel press -> DESCCHAR General speech support changes: Add a preference for setting the pitch. Add a preference for setting the punctuation level. SpeechDispatcher speech driver changes: Change the connection name to "main" (from "driver"). Single character entry/deletion now always speaks. Try to reopen the connection if an error occurs. Support setting pitch and punctuation level. Theta speech driver changes: It wouldn't compile with newer gccs. Linux screen driver changes: Now works on big endian architectures. Add support for multi-byte character sets. Add the Charset= parameter. Add support for the right Alt key (AltGr). PcBios screen driver changes: Add AT/XT scancode support. Windows screen driver changes: Add the FollowFocus= parameter. Add AT/XT scancode support. Text table changes: Rename no-h to no-generic. Rename no-p to no-oub [Offentlig Utvalg for Blindeskrift]. Contraction table changes: Unicode characters can be specified by value [\uxxxx]. Unicode characters can be specified by name [\]. When the cursor is: * On a word - it is uncontracted (not rendered in computer braille). * Between words - the space is expanded. Rename the opcode "repeated" to "repeatable". Fixes to the English Grade 2 [en-us-g2] table. Fix the UEB [Unified English Braille] percent sign. Fixes to the Chinese [zh-...] tables. Rename zh-tw-big5 to zh-tw. Remove zh-tw-gb2312. Remove zh-tw-utf8. BrlAPI changes: Now at release 0.5.2. Present a blinking cursor if that's what the user has configured. Install/uninstall "/var/lib/BrlAPI/". Caml bindings changes: Install and uninstall now work properly. Java bindings changes: Package the classes into org.a11y.BrlAPI. Rename the classes to remove the (now redundant) Brlapi prefix. Python bindings changes: Improved error handling facilities. tbltest changes: Added the -e [--edit] option for editing a text table. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave at mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ From samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org Fri Jul 18 01:43:15 2008 From: samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org (Samuel Thibault) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:43:15 +0100 Subject: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY-3.10 has been released. In-Reply-To: <20080716235752.GJ8935@gamma.private.mielke.cc> References: <20080716235752.GJ8935@gamma.private.mielke.cc> Message-ID: <20080718014315.GC8674@implementation> Hello, Dave Mielke, le Wed 16 Jul 2008 19:57:52 -0400, a ?crit : > Release 3.10 of BRLTTY is now available. I have upgraded the cygwin package (pending upload) and put DOS and mingw builds on http://brl.thefreecat.orb/brltty/ Samuel