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Description
english:
a distribution ubuntu that this targeted for handicapped people. a distribution ubuntu that, at the start for the first home system that let them customize according to your handicap. that this distribution has all programs, drivers and support you need a system for people who need it. a distribution ubuntu designed to facilitate management system that is simple and intuitive nice to see and customized for people who also has the right to use a computer
sorry for my bad english
spanish:
una distribución ubuntu que este orientado para gente minusválida. una distribución ubuntu que, al comenzar por primera que inicio el sistema les deje personalizar según tu minusvalía. que esta distribución ubuntu tenga todos los programas, drivers y ayudas que necesite un sistema para gente que lo necesita. una distribución ubuntu diseñada para facilitar el manejo del sistema y que sea sencillo intuitivo agradable de ver y personalizado para gente que también tiene derecho a usar un ordenador
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uaneme wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 00:12
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Very important!!!
I don't know how good things like braille readers and text to speech (festival?) etc. are implemented. But yes this is important, I don't think there should be a seperate distro for this, but a consequent support system wide.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 00:23
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Well, the text-to-speech software needs to be improved so that they sound more human and more accurate.
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newhuntwat wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 00:25
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if there is a satanic ubuntu edition or a christian ubuntu edition or even a flagpole there ubuntu studio. I think we should also have a handicapped ubuntu edition or disabled ubuntu edition
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unimatrix wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 02:20
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OR.. you know, we could just add an option that installs everything needed to a classic Ubuntu system. I think a whole new distribution is a bit of an overkill.
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jhoger wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 06:30
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Accessibility is very important. But different people have different accessibility issues. A distro for those with limited sight would have a different interface than for those with limited fine motor skills.
Which issues would such a distro cater to by default? Or perhaps there would be batches of customizations for different issues?
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Tree MendUs wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 06:56
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Could have metapackage sets for each kind of disabilities. People with multiple disabilities could download the sets that suit them.
Speech recognition would also be helpful.
Set up groups for working with hardware;
1) currently available products,
2) products in development,
3) Ubuntu Users who have ideas or inventions for helping disabled.
Disabled users could form a special group of Ubuntu Users, to provide feedback and trial testing, maybe a special Brainstorming area because this is an arena for new ideas.
This arena also overlaps with the topic of Human Interface, and might include devices for brain, nerve, and eye motion sensors.
It may use facial and body gesture recognition.
e.g.facial expressions, body movement, camera used to translate deaf/dumb sign language into voice for phone conversation, or text for PC control and emailing.
How it gets packaged, is probably not so important in the first instance, just as long a sit gets packaged in some way to get this area of Ubuntu Application to a User Group working.
Ubuntu has made advances with many languages being able to use linux, and converse with each other. It is an expansion on the concept of "human communication" to include other forms of language.
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Auzy wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 08:19
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I dont think we should be releasing any more. OSX and Windows manages this with their core distribution. We shouldn't treat them like special people.
After all, disabled users would most likely be using the same computer as the rest of their family. They wouldn't want to install 2 distro's to fulfill both sides of their family. The core distro should be installed by a disabled user as easily as any other.
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uaneme wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 18:48
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Eldmannen, i think right now a visual impared person would appriciate any text to speech, even an imperfect one.
for entire blind people, yes that would be not so handy, but they are usually very fast with the baille tools.
But still that bit of text to speech whould make adifference.
For instance a speaking Pidgin. They don't see the flashing button.
I know a guy who is blind and using a PC is HEAVY on the mind for them, they have to be aware of all open apps and tabbing trough them it's quiet some task.
And Auzy, what if you go blind?
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Tree MendUs wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 21:40
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We could play a game.
Today we are going to put on a new Edward de Bono hat.
It is called - pretend you are disabled and trying to install an operating system.
Lets give it a try ..
The installer will help sort out how you can look at it, and it will help sort out how you can type on it with a conventional keyboard.
But will it sort out how you can hear from it (if you can't see), and will it sort out how you can input to it with a braille keyboard, or other pointing device?
So no matter what an installed Ubuntu can do, there is no way of reaching that state - without help from some other person (who has time to help you install the OS - Ubuntu).
Disabled users may only make up a small percentage of Ubuntu users. But of the population of Disabled PC users, there is an opportunity to encourage a large percentage of them to use Ubuntu.
If a complete disabled distro is not convenient for Ubuntu, then what about an "installer".
Three examples of possibilities;
1) Similar to network install floppy/cd.
Place the disk in the PC, install the installer.
Then get the rest of the system. Which ever version or variant, and programs you want.
There might be a metapackage of programs that have features for disabled, or disabled find particularly easy to use.
Special Themes - for color blind, vision impaired, sounds using the users language for spoken feedback on PC events (e.g. "You have new email", "Enter", "OK pressed", "Bold selected")
2) Wubi - for windows users to try out.
3) Shunt old Operating system asside.
Download installer, using old OS.
Burn cd.
Run installer from CD.
Automate as much as possible the following -
Squash current partition.
Make new partition.
Install (or copy image file) to new partition.
Either set up for dual boot, or shrink old partition, and expand new partition to fill all the space, for single boot.
Reboot to new OS.
Get additional programs, and standard disabled kit.
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Tree MendUs wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 21:45
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Disabled could use PC for Phones
1) Pidgin or any other voice chat program.
Using text (generated from disabled persons pointing device or braille keyboard) to generate voice sounds, can be run with the voice messaging software.
Combined with VoIP, and they have a replacement for expensive phones.
2) Use dialup modem to act as hand set lifter, phone dialer and audio interface for text to speech for local calls.
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Tree MendUs wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 21:49
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Not just disabled persons or their families, friends or neighbors to do the installs.
Organizations that provide (voluntary) services for the disabled might be encouraged to come on board or form a special interest group, to 'roll out' boxes with "Ubuntu Disabled" pre or custom installed.
Could Ubuntu become the OS of choice for disabled persons?
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