Re: [oats-sig] Open Symbol set (was Web based symbol communication system with scanning)
Steve Lee
> is it possible to preview the Open Symbol Set?
Yes indeed, I have great pleasure in introducing the Mulburry symbol
set and straight-street web site.
This Open Symbol set is the creation of Garry Paxton (CCd) with others
and the idea is to provide a peer reviewed set of symbols that are
free and on liberal licencse such as CC. This should encourage
innovation and allow user development of require symbols (users are
initially Speech and Language Therapists who select symbols for
clients). The website provides a place for user community to request
and review symbols and to select and download them for local use.
At this point some 500 symbols are available and the initial set is
expected to be about 1000.
The symbols are WMF format only at the moment but SVG will be
available very soon.
Please note this is a preview and the web site is very much still
under development, in particular in my role of web developer I am just
porting over to a new host (the Open source friendly ukfsn.org) and
sorting out a few remaining issues with the site.
We would very much like comments and suggestions.
Web site: www.straight-street.ukfsn.org
Installer: http://www.straight-street.ukfsn.org/apps.php?id=17
You can view the symbols by going to the gallery and doing a search
(empty search returns all symbols).
Mouse over symbols to preview.
If you register and login then symbols can be added to the basket with
a click and then checked out as a zip.
Thanks
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Steve Lee
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Open Source Assistive Technology Software
web: fullmeasure.co.uk
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Steve Lee
On 01/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.che...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> please could you or Garry? send me a few example SVGs before the batch run?
@Garry: do you have any SVG examples yet?
@Jonathan: the plan is to convert, review and hand correct rather than
auto convert as that sometimes gives suboptimal results. For now you
could use one of the many auto convert tools.
> bugs:
Thank so much for the feed back. Comments below
> function: clicking does not add to cart. checked opera mozilla and safari
> nightlies
Whoops I forgot something, as well as being logged in you need to
accept the license for an image before you can grab it. In the User
Links near the top click 'new licenses' which is starred, and accept
the CC licence. There is a subtle clue as the border for the icons are
red if you have to accepted the licence, green if you have. It's hard
to see and really needs to go in the title as well I guess.
> accessibility: graphics selection (for cart) is not possible by keyboard
> afaik...
A full review of accessibility is scheduled as this is still at the beta stage.
Do you have any suggestions for such a big grid, apart from
tab/shift-tab for next/prev. What do you do in peepo? I guess I'll go
look at the page source.
> accessibility: as well as text search is image search planned? nb. media
> gallery large graphic appears to be a link, hand pointer, but....
Can you expand a bit on what you have in mind?
The text search looks in the image name and any image tags.
> A great start, congratulations
thanks, what do you think of the symbols themsleve?
Steve Lee
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> accessibility: graphics selection (for cart) is not possible by keyboard
> afaik...
Tab and Enter now work.
> accessibility: as well as text search is image search planned? nb. media
> gallery large graphic appears to be a link, hand pointer, but....
Fixed, now arrow pointer.
Thanks again for the feedback
Steve Lee
There is now a zip archive of the SVG symbols available on straight-streets.
Login and go to the Checkout, it's at the bottom of the page.
Or just grab it directly:
http://www.straight-street.ukfsn.org/uploaded/bundles/Mulberry1v4_svg.zip
Garry spent some time exporting and checking them this afternoon and
as a result our conclusion is that they are *much* clearer than the
WMF versions. That could be the rendering program but we guess it is
largely down to the format. For me on gnome they look great as tiny
file thumbnails (in Nautilus) or when viewed full screen.
To update my previous statement, hand correction is only needed when
exporting to WMF.
Steve Lee
Steve
On 10/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.che...@btinternet.com> wrote:
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> mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....
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> congratulations on some really clean code samples.
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> two topics have been chunked:
> http://www.openicon.org/icon-ark/mulberry/fruit.svgz
> http://www.peepo.co.uk/icon-ark/vegetable.svgz
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> it would be helpful to have topic or category icons.
> our users have great difficulties with generalisation, and this is a great
> place to start...
> you may have other topic ideas.
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> http://www.openicon.org is a search engine not a host. (except during
> development)
> anyone can register links to topics, provided the files are valid.
> please try this out as well as the simple text search by irc or web
> search by picture is in development,
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> the rather crude agglomerator did not barf too heavily.
> the agglomerator converts folders of SVGs to a single svgz document.
> note that each icon now has a title, when you tab or mouseover each one a
> tooltip gives the name.
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> Please consider hosting files like the two above.
> then people can find you more easily and
> you can update and add at your convenience, and users will find out very
> quickly.
> please remember to register with openicon each time ~:"
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> users easily find other graphics like the one they found, which are
> downloaded once and cached.
> users will normally copy a link to your resource rather than the data.
> there is not much sense in copying around the net, as it makes updating more
> difficult....
> reduced traffic and smaller files being posted around the place, etc....
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> I can only slowly introduce the openicon as it evolves, please bear with me.
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> in the near future:
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> individuals with very limited vocabularies can register their personal
> category to help others communicate.
> these cannot be part of the general search directory as duplications would
> necessarily arise.
> however it may be possible to introduce people with similar interests and
> abilities, in real time....
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> kind regards
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