KDE for dyslectic people

[Carlos Leonhard Woelz]

Hi Onno,

Thanks for bringing up this discussion.

I am moving this discussion to kde-accessibility.

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:10:09 +0200, "Onno Timmerman" <onno at filosofie.be>
said:
> Anne-Marie Mahfouf schreef:
> 
> >On September 7, 2004 05:30 am, Onno Timmerman wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I don't know if this is the right spot to ask this. But maybe some KDE
> >>developer could look in the the following suggestion.
> >>
> >>I'm a dyslectic person: and that means I got diffuculties with correct
> >>spelling but also making correct sentences. However many people who
> >>correct my papers notice I always make the same flaws. Now would it be
> >>possible to make a gramer correction on basis of these returning flaws.
> >>There should be some sort of private rule book where the computer checks
> >>automaticaly specifical for the flaws a dyslectic person makes. I should
> >>be able to configure the gramer checker in to my needs.
> >>Notice, that every dyslectic person makes some specifik mistakes. He/she
> >>would then be able to fine tune the gramer correction.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Doesn't it already exist specific dictionaries for dyslectic, as this 
> >condition depends on the language? My daughter had problems in French but 
> >never had any in English when we moved to England.
> >If these dictionaries don't exist the task will be hard...
> >
> >A spell-check calling that special dictionary should then be easy.
> >
> >Anne-Marie
> >  
> >
> Could you point me where that dictionary can be found.
> I also would like to see some grammer rules in Kword etc... About 1 in 
> 10 people have dyslexie. And I believe this group is largly ignored by 
> properiarity makers. I hope that a free software culture could make the 
> adaptations.
> 
> If the developers of Kword and KDE would like to see into it. I could 
> make a pre-study of wath could be done. I even could talk with the 
> minister of education in Belgium to get some subsidies to develop the 
> software. But then I got to be sure KDE devolopers will adopt it.
> 
> I think schools could hae a great use for it.
> 
> Onno

Free software lacks grammar correction as far as I know. OpenOffice
lacks grammar correction as well. So first, we would have to implement
this. But I am talking about a subject I don't really know anything
about. The guys who do know about this stuff are the guys at
kde-accessibility at kde.org , a mailing lists dedicated to these issues.

Cheers,

Carlos Woelz

PS. To the accessibility guys, here are the links to the previous
messages:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/2004-September/000928.html
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/2004-September/000933.html
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-quality/2004-September/000937.html
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  Carlos Leonhard Woelz
  carloswoelz at imap-mail.com