Accesibilidad de SUGAR Y OLPC...

Encontre esta noticia sobre el software FreeIconToSpeech que ayuda a mejorar la accesibilidad para los niños esta super interesante...


Cada vez me sorprende mas en las listas de SUR encontrar este tipo de comentarios:

Fui una de las personas que no quise separar a los que saben de lenguaje específico de informatica, (logo) y a los maestros, pues creo que ahí está a verdadera colaboración.
Ojalá tuviera mas tiempo y energía para estudiar logo y entrar a ver Dokeos, igual duermo lo menos posible...cuidando mi salud.
Rosamel-Uruguay.....

UN fuerte aplauso a la gente de Uruguay... y ojala en Perú se este dando lo mismo :O

GSoC: zikula - Usability... tools

I see the tools for work accessibility and usability. The list from to WAI home page have a lot of tools. I select this:

Online Tools
Weagogo- website analysis
http://www.webagogo.be/tools

Web Accessibility Checker (Have a option for update the theme for example)
http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/index.html

Web Accessibility Evaluator in a single XSLT file (sabe a some errors)
http://www.it.uc3m.es/vlc/waex.html

http://www.totalvalidator.com/ (Does not work)
http://www.dasilva.org.br/
http://www.ocawa.com/en/Test-your-Web-Site.htm
http://imergo.com/home


Web Service tool for evaluating web accessibility
http://sipt07.si.ehu.es/evalaccess2/index.html



Truwex
http://www.erigami.com/truwex/


Testa il tuo sito That's fine
http://www.webxtutti.it/testa.htm

Tool Bars
Web Accessibility Toolbar
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1569
Thi for :( Windows and Opera

In German
http://www.drempelvrij.nl/toolbar/index.html

Toolbar too but in japanese
http://www.infoaxia.com/tools/iawat/index.html

For Firefox :) Web Developer
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

AccMonitor (paid)
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/monitor.html
Have a Trial Demo for Windows :(

Miscellanea

Only for change frame for CCS styles.
http://www.sidar.org/uaw/

Eyes not marquee
http://tools.webaccessibile.org/test/check.aspx

Tidy for windows
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

http://www.everyeye.co.uk/ (windows)

Simulator ?
http://vis.cita.uiuc.edu/

SortSite - web site testing tool (For Windows)
http://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/

Color

http://www.vischeck.com/

Extensions
TAW3
http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/cms/es
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1158&application=firefox

Fangs - the screen reader emulator
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs/

http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

Functional Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/

GSoC: Zikula Redesing..

Jeff Johnson: Psych 101: The Psychological Basis for UI Design Rules

view presentation (tags: ux baychi jeffjohnson)

Usability Thesis: Tercera Sustentación de Proyecto de Tesis

Esta fue mi tercera expo en Tesis...

Creo que perdí la diapo original... bueno tengo esta jeje :D

Tesis: Evaluación de la OLPC con Ingeniería de Usabilidad. Tercera Expocisión

view presentation (tags: de ingeniería olpc usabilidad)

GSoC :: Última Oportunidad....

Programare el pnForm ... será mi última oportunidad... No he logrado completar satisfactoriamente muchas cosas del Projecto. Inclusive la gigantesca cantidad de código me hizo perder tiempo valiosísimo en este tema.

Hable con Steffen y me dará esta última oportunidad .... no escribiré ni vere mas mis cursos hasta mediados del domingo. Para descansar y concentrarme de lleno en mis cursos... aún si zikula no me evalua positivamente....

GSoC :: Work GO GO GO GO !!

Yes...

This days are full time project GSoC ... Only sleep 3 hrs for day ... :$ uch...

In the same moments ... all time is the code. the code the code!!! CCS, PHP, Java script !!!

GSoC: The Midterm Evaluation Period Has Commenced

I'm nervius :S....


Buuuuuu

GSoC: Trac Zikula

I put several bugs whether mistakes or improvements in the trac of zikula. I'm working on its correction but to make more visible these solutions have to always implement them in drawings ...

I am also putting patterns yahoo of a few ... Separated at 4 milestones.

1 milestone.
Ticket Summary
#3 Change UI Instalation
#1 Make Bugs Usability Administration
#5 UI User: Position login name change
#7 UI User: Position Presentation Zikula and Change PostNuke
#8 UI User: personal info
#9 UI User: change update field
#2 Usability Testing Report
#4 Zikula Accessibility and Usability Guide
#10 Testing Module Usability and Accessibility

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GSoC: Usability, Accessibility and Other Projects

I make a list with project similar like me. Only 6 days before to GSoC... , these include some topics: usability, accessibility and other beautiful project:




1)Detecting and solving specific usability issues.Moodle.
Student Laia Subirats Maté
Mentor David Jesús Horat Flotats

The goal of this project is to identify and correct Moodle’s problems of usability, and help avoiding them in next releases. Additionally, it is also desirable to find out what components from the Fluid Project can be used in Moodle, in order to provide a continuous feedback of usability problems and try to prevent them in the future.

2)Automatic Accessibility Checking - Application. Moodle.
Student David W. Knight
Mentor David Jesús Horat Flotats

My plan to is create a button that will pull the source of a current page a submit it to w3 for validation. I was also thinking, so the user doesn't have to leave the site, to have the errors pulled back to the user and displayed with a page that will have the number of errors and warnings. If the page is valid it will alert the user and not display the number of errors or warnings. This will be provided in a sleek GUI for maximum accessibility. Follow the url in "Link to Further Information" for some mock-ups.

3)Usability Testing Suite. Drupal.
Student Jimmy Berry
Mentor Bevan Rudge

My project will provide a method of measuring the user experience which has been stated as a very important goal of Drupal. In Dries' keynote he detailed the results of the usability testing and stressed that we should "Continue to make Drupal easier to use." My project will provide a suite of usability testing tools that will allow data to be recorded and analyzed in order to make improvements to Drupal's usability.

4)XWiki Watch: UI & ergonomics improvements. XWiki
Student Ecaterina Valica
Mentor Anca Paula Luca
"We shouldn't have to adapt to technology, it should adapt to us."

People are always in touch with each other now; it doesn't matter where they are anymore. The separation between personal life and work is disappearing.
XWiki Watch is XWiki's collaborative RSS reader. XWatch needs to find, analyze and distribute relevant information, whether are information about work or fun. This can be accomplished with a good organization of the information and of the space used. The data displayed should have functions easily visible and obvious to use.
XWatch needs to create a unique user experience, amplifying his killer features (Collaborative application, Text Analysis, Press Review, etc). To ensure the user experience, XWatch has to be useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible, credible and valuable. This can be made concentrating on the details and overall presentation.
Because the user should be in the center of the development process, XWatch needs to improve his interaction and user interface. To achieve this, it has to integrate more Human Computer Interaction principles, Interaction Design Patterns and it has to use more components from frameworks like Google Web Toolkit, or libraries like Yahoo! UI Library.

5)Usability issues of diagrams. ArgoUML
Student Bogdan SZANTO
Mentor Luís Sérgio Valente de Oliveira

The purpose of the project is to tackle some usability issues of diagrams in ArgoUML. This will include several new functions (Create new class wizard, Class integration between diagrams…), that should facilitate the creation of diagrams and make the user experience more pleasant and engaging.

6)Usability improvements and GTK+ GUI for Aptitude. Debian.
Student Obey Arthur Liu
Mentor Daniel Burrows

I will create a GTK+ GUI for Aptitude that will work alongside improved current ncurses and command-line interfaces. This will offer an alternative to Synaptic with an interface design geared toward usability and advanced functionality.

Development blog : http://www.milliways.fr
Development website : http://dev.graffit.net/aptitude/trac/

7)Accessibility and localization improvements for Rockbox. RockBox
Student Thomas Ross
Mentor Daniel Stenberg

Improve usability to non-native speakers and blind users via the following tasks
1) Implement a framework to allow the localization of text within plugins.
2) Adjust the "Browse Plugins" menu to display the localized name of each plugin. e.g. solitaire.rock would display Solitaire.
Secondary Tasks (Time permitting):
3) Voice for the database
4) Voice for plugins

8)Transifex :: Usability and Efficiency Enhancements . Fedora
Student Diego Búrigo Zacarão
Mentor Asgeir Frimannsson
For a better user experience and a better tool for translators, our application to submit translations (Transifex) should receive some enhancements. These enhancements are related to usability, efficiency, and accessibility for non-English native people.
Our goal is to improve Transifex to an easy administration with all application internationalized and finally allows users to have a great efficiency on all interactions over the application. Make Transifex User Friendly and Efficient, in order to bring more contributors and save valuable time for existing translators.

9)Java GUI for OpenBiomind. OpenBiomind
Student Bhavesh Sanghvi
Mentor Murilo Saraiva de Queiroz

I plan to work on the OpenBiomind Java GUI idea suggested in OpenCog list of ideas (http://opencog.org/wiki/Ideas#Java_GUI). As specified in the description, “Many biologists using microarrayers and other tools are command-line-phobic. A simple Java GUI (like Weka) could significantly improve OpenBiomind's usability lower the barrier to entry. At a minimum, the Java GUI should allow users to select parameters, launch processes and manage pipelines.”

10) Build IMS LTI Producer for Moodle. Sakai
Student Jordi Piguillem Poch
Mentor Charles Russell Severance

The main idea is to develop a IMS LTI Producer for Moodle to add to this LMS the capabilities to export its tools to another system that implements IMS standards.

11) Sakai
Student Eli Foley
Mentor Charles Russell Severance

My first idea is relatively straightforward--As a user of sakai I find it frustrating how little student-submitted content is available. Often-times when an assignment is unclear people go to the forums or wiki to get help when they're stuck. My idea would be to incorporate an AJAX-(or other similar language) driven chat buddy list into each class page--showing you a list of who else in that class is online so that students can discuss problems together.
My other idea is to have a personal storage section on sakai, hopefully by using AJAX controls to draw a virtual desktop where the user can create folders and drag-and-drop files by incorporating OLE functions to help students manage their school-related files.

12)AJAX functionality for core of Coppermine. Coppermine
Student Nuwan Sameera Hettiarachchi
Mentor Abbas Ali
Abstract

Through this project, I hope to integrate AJAX functionalities (using jQurey UI) into the core of Coppermine gallery. This project aims to enhance the user experience Coppermine gallery and simplify the user interactions with system's functionalities.

13)NPToolkit/Knoppix Live CD Improvements. NPToolkit
Student Daniel Bracey
Mentor Richard Carlson

Goals for the project are:
1. Improve Internet2's NPToolkit to make it easier for administrators to install, configure and manage machines running the software provided by the toolkit. Currently, it is difficult for administrators to make even small customizations to running services, since the entire toolkit runs off a live CD -- with basic configuration files residing on a USB key or internal hard drive. Ideally, administrators should be able to tailor the toolkit's performance by adding/modifying small scripts which could be configured to start at run time.
2. Integrate perfSONAR measurement and visualization into the next version of the NPToolkit. These tools will help administrators exchange and monitor performance data across large interconnected networks.
3. Develop a simplified configuration tool so that administrators can configure the software on the toolkit through a single, convenient script.
4. Add security related options to the basic configuration scripts so that administrators can easily turn security related services (e.g. iptables) on/off depending on their individual needs and security philosophies.

14) OpenNMS Live CD. OpenNMS
Student Umair Imam
Mentor Benjamin Reed

Make a demo live CD which can run openNMS for demonstration purposes

Thank Leslie and Google for the Beautiful Book !!!
Is a nice gift

GSoC Proposal: Usability & Accessability Overhaul [en]

Title Usability & Accessability Overhaul
Student Carlos Mauro Cardenas Fernandez
Mentor Steffen Voß
Abstract
Evaluate and improve the usability of the PostNuke project. Through the use of best practices and the use of standards in programming interfaces for a minimum installation. Just as the assessment of the improvements through usability testing

Usability & Accessability Overhaul
1 Introduction
Carlos Mauro Cardenas Fernandez (1)
Unimauro@gmail.com
Ingeniería de Sistemas
Universidad Nacional del Ingeniería
Lima - Perú
1.2 Technicalities
* Project: Usability & Accessibility Overhaul
* Difficulty: medium
* Required experience: XHTML, CSS, PHP, Usability, Accessability.
This project will be mentored by Steffen Voß, kaffeeringe.de.

Chapter 2 - Definition of objectives
2 Definition of objectives
2.1 Actual state and motivation
I'm develop my thesis about the usability software and I want to join in the project and help with 'GSOC: Usability & Accessability Overhaul'. I know the theory about usability and test usability. In my university used this for a first test for the proposal thesis.
2.2 Must have criteria
My critera to cover the project are:
* Recommendations of the mentors and community PostNuke (2).
* Use patterns and best practices recommended in Web usability like: W3C and WAI(3), YUI Patterns(4), WebDesign(5).
* Make a Template Quiz for the evaluation as module for Test Usability .
* Review mentors and community PostNuke(2).
2.3 Should have criteria
The criteria for the evaluation usability are:
- Comparison of controls on Good Practices or patterns Usability on the Web.
- Include improvements within the Framework.
- Create a guide to improve and documenting findings to the community PostNuke.
2.4 Functional constraints
Not found in the documented bug tracker errors usability. Therefore the project will make based on the study of each graphical interface in the minimum instalation of postnuke.

Chapter 3 - Design goals
3 Design goals
3.1 Usability
To improve the usability of Postnuke i will work graphical interfaces suggested some of the modules and the framwork which are used in the forms. Attempts to put in these modules some good practices and standards for Web usability.
I will Work with what is necessary XHTMl, CSS, Ajax whether it is possible to implement and methodically.
3.2 Accessibility and conformance
For the accessibility i take the the Guidelines and techniques(6). After the programing process. I will make a list for test usability. I will Choose 6 to 7 cms users to test usability with the corrections. The proceeds will help create iterations for each test.
3.3 Maintainability
Maintenance may accelerate taking intoaccount that at the end of the draft the conclusions will be made in the form of best practices for Web usability postnuke. I will help in the incorporation and supporting of usability guide line in other modules postnuke.

Chapter 4 - Development aspects
4 Development aspects
4.1 Used tools
* Webserver (e.g. Apache)
* Database (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL or Oracle)
* PHP 5
* Latest version of PostNuke .8
* Programming editor (either a comprehensive IDE like Eclipse with PDT or a text editor with syntax highlighting)
4.2 Planning Project
The Grantt Chart
WBS Name Start Finish
1 Research Usability WEB Apr 21 Apr 25
2 Find Patterns Usability into Postnuke Apr 26 May 12
3 Bugs Usability May 12 Jun 16
4 Make Change into modules May 25 Aug 19
5 Postnuke Usability Guidelines Proposal Jun 13 Aug 29
6 Evaluation Module Test Usability Aug 11 Aug 28
7 Corrections Jun 29 Sep 3
8 Close Sep 4 Sep 4

5 PostNuke Future
PostNuke I think it has a future as long as they can continue to work according to their modular form. Using Web Services. Other software as Moodle, Sakai, BBphp, Gallery, Compiere or Google App and Flick. To help speed in generating solutions. Enriching the framework could even manage business rules for anaging documents and intranet management knowledge. The Future BI knowlegde Postnuke could generate in their new updates a social network strong. Even create options from webservices with type attractions facebook an hi5. Therefore postnuke in the entertainment and business could be very interesting.

6 RESUME
My name is Carlos Mauro Cardenas Fernandez. I am studing system engineering in the UNI Lima Peru. I know C, php, java, python and gtk. And I was free lance. Implements cms and made modules for some of my projects. I have been freelance good time in my university life. I First used PhpNuke and then found Postnuke. the wizard installation is quick and easy. I liked making templates for a Web design company. I working too with elearning software for schools and associations and type moodle and dokeos. Then I am more interested in this topic. But some users found it difficult so I started used web standar. Learned the use of web standards. Then I met that exist on HCI. Now I am doing my thesis on usability Software of Sugar OLPC.

(1) Resume
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dfxdb7kn_34hs6g5sdf&hl=en
(2) http://community.postnuke.com/Wiki-usabilityProject.htm
(3) http://www.w3.org/WAI/
(4) http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
(5) Usability Web
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
(3) http://fluidproject.org/index.php/downloads
(4) http://www.usability.gov/
(5) http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html
(6) http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html
(7) http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html
Web del Abstract
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/postnuke/appinfo.html?csaid=7EB991513C603AC5
Entrevista por la Comunidad PostNuke
http://community.postnuke.com/Article2906.htm