[vicsireland] Re: FW: Ubuntu and Visually impaired users
- From: "Cearbhall O Meadhra" <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:20:56 +0100
Dear Darragh,
Great to have your support! I would love to hear what the scheme is. Is it
the same one?
All the best,
Cearbhall
"Good design enables - Bad design disables"
Tel: 01-2864623 Mob: 087 9922227 Em: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxxxxx
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From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh
Sent: 29 April 2008 10:00
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: FW: Ubuntu and Visually impaired users
Morning Cearbhall,
I would be very willing to help out.
If the hardware was obtained and shipped over at minimum cost it could be a
very viable option for providing accessible technology to Visually impaired
people in developing countries.
There is an initiative already in place led by one of the contributors to
the Orca discussion list that may be worth studying as it is achieving an
outcome similar to the one desired here.
Let me know if you'd like to discuss this further.
Darragh
www.digitaldarragh.com <http://www.digitaldarragh.com/>
2008/4/28 Cearbhall O Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx>:
Dear VICS members,
I was very concerned when I saw the discussion last week about helping
Nigerian people to use computers. I was also alarmed when Gerry Ellis
asserted that hardware needed to be licensed and that this presented an
obstacle to assisting people who are excluded from purchasing computers on
grounds of costs.
I did some research and was referred to this group Camara who specialise in
resolving this very issue. They find that the hardware is not a problem and
can be distributed without incurring any licensing issues. The software is,
of course, subject to licence. For that reason they install Linux-based
systems on computers and, as we know, this means that screen readers such as
Kopernicus come into focus.
I have started a dialog with Camara whose leaders are very interested in
having the input of VICS into this issue.
Would anyone like to help with this initiative?
All the best,
Cearbhall
"Good design enables - Bad design disables"
Tel: 01-2864623 Mob: 087 9922227 Em: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxxxxx
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From: Kirsty Palfreyman [mailto:kirsty@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 April 2008 18:03
To: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: Ubuntu and Visually impaired users
Good afternoon,
First response from the Linux group below.
I shall also bring the topic up at our next Camara team meeting (one week
tomorrow).
I'll be in touch,
Kind regards,
Kirsty
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From: Rory McCann <rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 April 2008 14:19
Subject: Ubuntu and Visually impaired users
To: camaradublin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Eoghan Crosby - Camara <eoghan@xxxxxxxxx>, Kirsty Palfreyman
<kirsty@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi all,
I've just had a quick look, and there seems to be a few built in
technologies for helping visually impaired users.
There's some info on the ubuntu website:
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/accessibility and
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/804features/accessibility/
I don't know how good they are and how they'd compare to the windows world.
It might be interesting to get some visually impaired people to try it out.
Maybe someone has done that sort of thing before.
Rory (who is swamped in work ATM)
Eoghan wrote:
Hi all, is there any Linux thigy to aid the visually impaired, see
below for request:
Note to Visually Impaired Computer Society (VICS) Ireland
"I have spent eight loving years and I have acquired a lot of skills
in
computer technology through many blind and sighted friends in Ireland.
My
dreams are to be able to impact these knowledge to needy blind persons
in
Africa because they're still using type writers."
Dear Kirsty,
Thank you for taking my phone call this morning. I am a member of the
visually Impaired Computer Society (VICS) and rang to see if Camara
had any
answer to a discussion which has recently arisen amongst prominent
VICS
members. This is about sending second hand computers to Nigeria. I
think the
members are correct to be concerned about licensing issues in relation
to
software but not correct to say that VICS should not get involved in
any
way.
My enquiries pointed me to Camara and the work that you and your
volunteers
are doing. I would be very interested in discussing this issue more
closely
with you and your technical team to see if VICS should get involved.
If you
feel that it would help to device a project dealing with this issue, I
would
be happy to introduce you to our chairman and would hope that your
representative might address the forthcoming AGM of VICS in May.
I have attached some of the discussion for your information.
My contact information is shown below:
Yours sincerely,
Cearbhall E. O'Meadhra
Colibri Consultant Group
"Passion for Excellence"
From: Cearbhall O Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx>
On Apr 21, 6:13 pm, Eoghan <eog...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How many are signed up to the Ubuntu Party night Rory? We may be able
to get a few drinks organised by the CS dept in UCD?
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