Gary Bishop - Latest Comments

Re: How many Tar Heel Reader users have Javascript disabled?

Gary Bishop — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:12:09 -0000

Agreed. My current thinking is to make it all work without Javascript and then use JS to improve the book reading and browsing experience. For example, iPad users won't have to touch each page to hear the speech. And Javascript enabled users will get a much smoother experience.

I'm also going to include a banner encouraging people without Javascript to turn it on.

Re: How many Tar Heel Reader users have Javascript disabled?

Jonah Bishop — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:08:00 -0000

You certainly don't want to shut out the folks who run with JavaScript turned off, but you also shouldn't design down to those folks either. Having a fall-back position for them is necessary, but the folks who have it enabled should generally be given a better experience.

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gametruthordare — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:37:08 -0000

Noah is eager to participate in the event Maze days for the third consecutive year .. Thank you guys so much.
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Re: Crawl Space Humidity Update

Gary Bishop — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:00:25 -0000

I've noticed that difference on mine as well. I *thought* my air handler had a leak. But now I believe the water that dripped off was condensing on it.

Re: Crawl Space Humidity Update

Peter Parente — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:58:20 -0000

Stilling working like a charm here too. No condensation on the AC unit under the host like in past years.

Re: SWAY: Switch Accessible YouTube

Gary Bishop — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:29:41 -0000

Thanks for the suggestions Karen. I'm just now looking for projects for some new students. I will put one of them on updating SWAY for cross-browser support, single switch operation, and a self-voicing interface.

Re: SWAY: Switch Accessible YouTube

Kvanden — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:53:22 -0000

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
would love for it to read the choices..
i tried to use claro read pro w/o luck.. since mouse doesnt follow the keyboard focus..
i'm assuming jaws would work.. but overkill for most of the folks i'm thinking of!
any ideas?
also, would love autoscan option w/timing flexibility
thanks again!!!!!!!!
karen

Re: Bus from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill

Gary Bishop — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:23:09 -0000

Actually there are 2 mid-day runs operated by Orange Public Transportation (the small buses). They leave the hospital at 10:45 and 1:45.

I just drive on the rare days that I need to leave midday.

Re: Bus from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill

Any. — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:10:33 -0000

Great for people who work in either location all day...but don't plan on traveling to & from anytime during the mid-day because you will be stuck! There is no bus service in the middle of the day.

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Stuart Rackham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:01:55 -0000

Thanks, much appreciated.

Re: SWAY: Switch Accessible YouTube

Gary Bishop — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:29:49 -0000

Hi Chris,

I'm sorry it gave you problems. Can you tell me the kind of OS and the
version of Firefox that gave you problems? That may help me track down
the problem.

Re: SWAY: Switch Accessible YouTube

Chris — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:03:08 -0000

Hi, I'm an OT in Tasmania - this is an awesome tool and I tried to use this with a student to help with learning how to use two switches in an engaging activity (read Justin Bieber!). It worked fine at my desk (Firefox 3.5.19) but not in the appointment room in our centre in which I tried several times on different computers. I thought it may have been due to the computers having newer versions of Firefox?? Cheers!

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Stephanie from the bus — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:53:51 -0000

thanks Gary!

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Charlie Idrac — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:42:14 -0000

you made my day !

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Victor — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:23:30 -0000

Cool.. I thought pressing backspace while typing was automatically understood as not going back to previous page, but i guess its not.
Good blogs.

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Peter Parente — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:21:15 -0000

Found out it doesn't work in Python 2.7 though. And they have a C scanner implementation there. Doh.

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Gary Bishop — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:19:43 -0000

That can surely be done, but I don't know how.

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Renier Marchand — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:44:36 -0000

Hi, this is a nice function to have. As I like the linking to errors in my source code. But I have a question. Is there a way for it to honour py-master-file is set in .dir-locals.el (http://pedrokroger.com/2010...

Re: Gary Bishop

Gary Bishop — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:18:21 -0000

This is great. No need to include Braille, it will be fine as you
described it. Let's talk when we meet. Think about how you would play
without seeing it. But including visuals is good too because some of
the kids have some vision plus its great to be able to share games
with your sighted siblings and friends.

I've got some tools (see the blog) for spatial sound.

I love the revealing letters + guessing component.

This is an excellent idea. If you're interested in doing it in
Javascript + HTML5 we have lots of tools to help but Flash or iPad app
or whatever will be fine.

Thanks for jumping in.
gb.

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Yue-Ling Wong — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:40:53 -0000

Hi Professor Bishop,

I am a CS graduate student here at UNC. I found your blog while I was looking at your calendar trying to propose a meeting time with you. :) Your game idea reminded me of a kid's game I created a while ago. It is like merging the Frogger game with Hangman. Originally it was not designed for visually-impaired kids. However, after reading your blog, I have come up some ideas to modify my game to incorporate your game idea for the visually-impaired kids.

For example, here are some ideas that I think I may be able to implement before the Maze Day.
(Please feel free to check out my game if you are interested and see what I am talking about regarding the modifications that can be made:
http://www.wfu.edu/~ylwong/... )

1. A sound plays whenever a log, lily pad, or yellow box is in front of the frog so the player knows when it's the good time to press the arrow key to make the frog to jump forward.

2. I could also add spatial sound to indicate the horizontal position of the frog while crossing the river. For example, a sound clip on the left channel plays louder than the right channel when the frog is more on the left of the screen.

3. When the frog safely lands inside the yellow box, a letter will be revealed. I can make the game to read out the key sequence that represents the letter (to have the player to figure out the letter) or read out the letter to have the player to figure out the key sequence.

4. For the gameplay's sake, I could also add a timer. The sooner the player can figure out the letter or key sequence for that letter, the higher the score they will get.

5. Note that each word has 6 letters and the player has exactly 6 frogs to uncover the letters. If one or more frogs miss the yellow box, then the player will not be given all 6 letters and will have to guess the word, which is a good--as a spelling practice exercise. This was one of my intents for my original game. I could modify the game such that the player does not have to use all 6 frogs. If the player knows the whole word based on only a few letters, they could spell it out and get the bonus points.

I love programming games for kids but I don't know how Braille works. So, I apologize if I am off the topic.

- Yue-Ling

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Gary Bishop — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:41:21 -0000

Backspace in some browsers is equivalent to the Back button that takes
you to the previous page. If the web application involves typing we
don't want backspace to leave the page.

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Victor — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:37:28 -0000

why would you not want to have a backspace option while browsing?

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Annette_Vinding — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:11:44 -0000

ABSS is looking forward to another year of Maze Day!

Re: SWAY: Switch Accessible YouTube

Speech/Language Path — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:30:43 -0000

Thank you for your fast reply, it is up and running...it works great!

Re: SWAY: Switch Accessible YouTube

Gary Bishop — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:13:01 -0000

Hi. It seems to be working for me. What version of Firefox are you
using? On what OS (windows or mac)? It's not much good if you can't
get it to work. Try this URL. Does that show kitten videos? It does
for me.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~gb/A...

Let me know and I'll be glad to help debug it.
gb