[Telepathy] Ang: Re: Pictogram support (Montreal Summit)

[Cesar Mauri]

Hi Mats, Peter and all,

> And what about support for Ruby Annotation in existing protocols for IM
> - will that be found anywhere?
> So on the wish list: An IM protocol with full support for Ruby
> Annotation - including graphics as part of the text - also in the
> annotation. But until then what?
> Mats

Agreed.

Cesar

>
> -----Peter Korn <peter.korn at oracle.com> skrev: -----
>
>     Hi Cesar,
>
>     Helping people with language and cognitive disabilities communicate
>     with each other and with folks who don't have those disabilities is
>     one of the tasks under the AEGIS project
>     [http://www.aegis-project.eu]. In particular, AEGIS partners SU-DART
>     and FPD in Sweden (staff of whom are cc-ed: Mats, Lars, Bengt, and
>     Annika) are doing that work.
>
>     To that end, they are building fonts out of the CCF symbol sets that
>     they developed for helping folks in Sweden with language and
>     communication impairments. Initially these fonts would be used as
>     part of a text editor - displaying symbols alongside the
>     English/Swedish/Spanish/... words representing the same concepts (to
>     be done as a plug-in to OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice). But the
>     intention is that they could be used for direct communication - with
>     any communication application that supported multi-byte characters.
>
>
>     I'll let Mats/Lars/Bengt/Annika describe this in further detail.
>
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Peter
>
>     On 10/25/2011 12:52 PM, Cesar Mauri wrote:
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     Recently I suggested to Meg Ford, who was attending the Montreal
>>     Summit,
>>     to ask Telepathy developers whether it would be possible to add
>>     support
>>     for pictogram based communication.
>>
>>     Here is my suggestion:
>>
>>>     Thinking in people with language and communication disorders (i.e.
>>>     people not able to read/write due to cognitive/mental disorders), it
>>>     would be interesting to have a IM client able to compose, send and
>>>     display messages made up pictograms + text.
>>>
>>>     So, messages would look like this:
>>>
>>>     http://1.bp.blogspot.com/___h4z60kN9fAk/TBnOIM61kUI/__AAAAAAAAAQ8/TM0fBXcTvyA/s1600/__cumplea%C3%B1os.png
>>>
>>>
>>>     Also, it would be useful to add TTS support in order to hear
>>>     messages written in plain text (which could be also useful for blind
>>>     people).
>>>
>>>     There had been some efforts in that way:
>>>
>>>     http://www.fundmaresme.com/messengervisual/
>>
>>
>>     And here Meg's answer:
>>
>>>     I spoke to one of the developers of Telepathy about this, and
>>>     here is
>>>     what he said:
>>>
>>>     Currently Telepathy does not support this type of feature. For
>>>     example,
>>>     users cannot send emoticons that they have drawn themselves.
>>>     Therefore,
>>>     you would need to write a library for this. If you are willing to
>>>     write
>>>     a library, they would be happy to have this feature.
>>>
>>>     Secondly, they recommend that you write a seperate app for this
>>>     feature,
>>>     but use the Empathy contact list. They recommend that the feature be
>>>     accessed through the accessibility menu.
>>
>>     Regarding the feasibility of implementing such a library on top of
>>     the supported protocols, Meg also told me:
>>
>>>     Do they all support sending icons? I assume that all of the chat
>>>     programs
>>>     do, but you would need to ask the Telepathy developers. I know
>>>     enough about
>>>     A.T. to be able to explain what this type of feature does from a
>>>     user-end
>>>     perspective, but I am not a programmer. Guillame Desmottes said
>>>     that you
>>>     would need to write an API to support this type of program.
>>>     Again, you can
>>>     speak to him about it. He said that some chat programs support,
>>>     for example,
>>>     sending user-made icons such as these http://emoticonhq.com/ . He
>>>     said
>>>     that you would need to write this type of A.P.I. for Telepathy in
>>>     order to
>>>     support the feature you are proposing. However, it would be best
>>>     if you
>>>     would discuss this with him if you want more details.
>>
>>
>>     And so here I am. My questions is:
>>
>>     - Do (most commonly used) supported protocols allow for sending
>>     arbitrary images along with text? Otherwise it would be pointless
>>     to try to write a library for this.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>
>>     César
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