From hzoebelein at gmail.com Tue May 6 20:06:39 2008 From: hzoebelein at gmail.com (Hans Zoebelein) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:06:39 +0200 Subject: [Fwd: Announcing Speakup Modified Fedora 9] Message-ID: <4820BA4F.1070707@gmail.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcing Speakup Modified Fedora 9 Resent-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 21:58:08 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 21:56:51 -0400 From: Janina Sajka We're pleased to announce the release of new x86_64 and i386 installation media for the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution. Once again we invite you to use our images and installation guidance to install Fedora 9, also known as "Sulphur," using your hardware speech synthesizer and the Speakup screen reader on your 32 or 64-bit computing system. Downloadable images and documentation are available at our Internet address: http://SpeakupModified.Org You can also access our files using ftp or rsync with commands like: ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified/fedora/ rsync -l speakupmodified.org::speakupmodified The Speakup Modified Fedora provides: * installation media adapted expressly for those blind computer users who want to use the Speakup Linux screen reader to install a Fedora-style Linux on their computers. This means that the blind computer user will not require sighted assistance, and that the end result will be an installation that talks every time it is booted. * Other assistive technology including Brltty, Emacspeak, Espeak, * Gnome-Speech-ibmtts, Orca, and the recently released Tiresias large-print fonts. It's all there--in the installation * images. * Firefox-3, ready to use once your installation completes. * Fast and robust Internet connections on our hosted servers, so * that your downloads can proceed at maximum speed * Our acclaimed HOWTO to guide you through the installation * process, including setup for Fedora's accessible graphical desktop. * A mini-howto about using telnet to install Sulphur -- particularly * useful for users who do not have hardware speech synthesizers. * A yum repository so you can update your Speakup Modified Fedora * distribution the easy way--overnight in your sleep, for instance. The newly released Fedora 9 is the most accessible Fedora yet. We're pleased we can once again facilitate your installation of Fedora without sighted assistance. Enjoy! The Speakup Modified Team -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org From raman at users.sourceforge.net Fri May 16 01:55:27 2008 From: raman at users.sourceforge.net (T. V. Raman) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:55:27 -0700 Subject: Emacspeak-28.0 (PuppyDog) Unleashed! Message-ID: <18476.59791.233406.368990@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Emacspeak-28.0 (PuppyDog) Unleashed! ---------------------------------- For Immediate Release: San Jose, Calif., (May 16, 2007) Emacspeak: Bringing Cutting-Edge Access For Keen Users --Zero cost of upgrades/downgrades makes priceless software affordable! Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 28.0 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data, social and service-oriented semantic Web. Investors Note: --------------- With several prominent analysts expanding coverage, NASDOG: ESPK has now been consistently trading over the net at levels close to that once attained by DogCom high-fliers. What Is It? ----------- Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides complete eyes-free access to all major 32 and 64 bit operating environments. By seamlessly blending live access to all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing, blogging and electronic messaging into the audio desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to local and remote information with a consistent and well-integrated user interface. A rich suite of task-oriented tools provides efficient speech-enabled access to the evolving service-oriented semantic Web. Major Enhancements: ------------------- 1. WebSpace: Automatically retrieve and speak useful information. 2. Emacs binding to AMixer. 3. Updated URL templates. 4. Updated Web utilities. 5. Updated productivity wizards. 6. Improved support for multibyte charsets. 7. GMail search wizards. 8. G-Client updates. Plus many more changes too numerous to fit in this margin ... See the NEWS file for additional details. Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom: --------------------- Never a toy system, Emacspeak is now voluntarily bundled with all major Linux distributions. Though designed to be modular, distributors have freely chosen to bundle the fully integrated system without any undue pressure --- a documented success for the integrated innovation embodied by the system. As the system evolves, both upgrades and downgrades continue to be available at the same zero-cost to all users. The integrity of the Emacspeak codebase is ensured by the reliable and secure Linux platform used to develop and distribute the software. Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these features, users consider Emacspeak to be absolutely priceless. Thanks to this wide-spread user demand, the present version is being made available at the same zero-cost as earlier releases. At the same time, Emacspeak continues to innovate in the area of speech and multimodal interaction and carries forward the well-established Open Source tradition of introducing user interface features that eventually show up in luser environments. On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of a crash-prone but well-marketed mousetrap with the assertion "Emacs is a system from the 70's", the creator of Emacspeak evinced surprise at the unusual candor manifest in the assertion that it would take popular idiot-proven interfaces until the year 2070 to catch up to where the Emacspeak audio desktop is today. Industry experts welcomed this refreshing breath of Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a time when users are reeling from the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) unleashed by complex software systems backed by even more convoluted press releases. Independent Test Results: ------------------------- Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern (and not so modern) software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without adversely affecting the continued performance of the computer. These same tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped functioning altogether. Speaking with Aster Labrador, the creator of Emacspeak once pointed out that these results re-emphasize the user-centric design of Emacspeak; "It is the user --and not the computer-- that stops functioning when Emacspeak is uninstalled!". Note from Aster and Bubbles: ---------------------------- UnDoctored Videos Inc. is still looking for volunteers to star in a video demonstrating such complete user failure. Obtaining Emacspeak: -------------------- Emacspeak can be downloaded from Google Code Hosting --see http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/ You can visit Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net. You can subscribe to the emacspeak mailing list emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu by sending mail to the list request address emacspeak-request at cs.vassar.edu. The PuppyDog release is at http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/files/emacspeak-28.0.tar.bz2. The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via Subversion from Google Code Hosting at http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ History: -------- Emacspeak 28.0 --- AKA PuppyDog --- exemplifies the rapid pace of development evinced by Open Source software. Emacspeak 27.0 --- AKA FastDog --- is the latest in a sequence of upgrades that make previous releases obsolete and downgrades unnecessary. Emacspeak 26 --- AKA LeadDog --- continues the tradition of introducing innovative access solutions that are unfettered by the constraints inherent in traditional adaptive technologies. Emacspeak 25 -- AKA ActiveDog -- re-activates open, unfettered access to online information. Emacspeak-Alive -- AKA LiveDog -- enlivens open, unfettered information access with a series of live updates that once again demonstrate the power and agility of open source software development. Emacspeak 23.0 -- AKA Retriever --- went the extra mile in fetching full access. Emacspeak 22.0 -- AKA GuideDog -- helps users navigate the Web more effectively than ever before. Emacspeak 21.0 -- AKA PlayDog -- continued the Emacspeak tradition of relying on enhanced productivity to liberate users. Emacspeak-20.0 -- AKA LeapDog -- continues the long established GNU/Emacs tradition of integrated innovation to create a pleasurable computing environment for eyes-free interaction. emacspeak-19.0 --AKA WorkDog-- is designed to enhance user productivity at work and leisure. Emacspeak-18.0 --code named GoodDog-- continued the Emacspeak tradition of enhancing user productivity and thereby reducing total cost of ownership. Emacspeak-17.0 --code named HappyDog-- enhances user productivity by exploiting today's evolving WWW standards. Emacspeak-16.0 --code named CleverDog-- the follow-up to SmartDog-- continued the tradition of working better, faster, smarter. Emacspeak-15.0 --code named SmartDog--followed up on TopDog as the next in a continuing a series of award-winning audio desktop releases from Emacspeak Inc. Emacspeak-14.0 --code named TopDog--was the first release of this millennium. Emacspeak-13.0 --codenamed YellowLab-- was the closing release of the 20th. century. Emacspeak-12.0 --code named GoldenDog-- began leveraging the evolving semantic WWW to provide task-oriented speech access to Webformation. Emacspeak-11.0 --code named Aster-- went the final step in making Linux a zero-cost Internet access solution for blind and visually impaired users. Emacspeak-10.0 --(AKA Emacspeak-2000) code named WonderDog-- continued the tradition of award-winning software releases designed to make eyes-free computing a productive and pleasurable experience. Emacspeak-9.0 --(AKA Emacspeak 99) code named BlackLab-- continued to innovate in the areas of speech interaction and interactive accessibility. Emacspeak-8.0 --(AKA Emacspeak-98++) code named BlackDog-- was a major upgrade to the speech output extension to Emacs. Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as OpenSource on the Internet in May 1995 as the first complete speech interface to UNIX workstations. The subsequent release, Emacspeak-96 (code named Egypt) made available in May 1996 provided significant enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97 (Tennessee) went further in providing a true audio desktop. Emacspeak-98 integrated Internetworking into all aspects of the audio desktop to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop. About Emacspeak: ---------------- Originally based at Cornell (NY) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman --home to Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW-- Emacspeak is now maintained on GoogleCode --http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak -- and Sourceforge -- http://emacspeak.sf.net. The system is mirrored world-wide by an international network of software archives and bundled voluntarily with all major Linux distributions. On Monday, April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Vassar --the home of the Emacspeak mailing list-- thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a valuable knowledge base for new users. Press/Analyst Contact: Hubbell Labrador Going forward, BubbleDog acknowledges her exclusive monopoly on setting the direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop, and promises to exercise this freedom to innovate and her resulting power responsibly (as before) in the interest of all dogs. About This Release: ------------------ Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The League Against Forced Fenestration (LAFF). --see http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for details on the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration. CopyWrite )C( Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All Writes Reserved. LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered Dogmarks of Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All other dogs belong to their respective owners. -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman at users.sf.net WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv at gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs From hzoebelein at gmail.com Wed May 28 15:22:54 2008 From: hzoebelein at gmail.com (Hans Zoebelein) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:22:54 +0200 Subject: [Fwd: [emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop] AxsJAX And Auditory User Interfaces At...] Message-ID: <483D78CE.2030903@gmail.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop] AxsJAX And Auditory User Interfaces At... Resent-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:23:36 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 07:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: T. V. Raman To: emacspeak at cs.vassar.edu For those of you interested in Auditory User Interfaces and attending Google IO 2008 in San Francisco today, I'll be giving a talk on AxsJAX and Auditory User Interfaces, and be around the rest of the two days to talk about Google's work on access-enabling Web-2.0 applications. Look forward to seeing you there! -- Posted By T. V. Raman to emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop at 5/28/2008 07:23:00 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: