Janina, it is all so awesomely cool. Thanks for all your efforts behind the scenes.
cheers, David Janina Sajka wrote: > This truly is wonderful news. I personally can't wait to take some of > those KDE apps for a spin with Orca, and I expect there will be KDE > based AT that will now be able to do the same with Gnome, Open Office, > and Firefox. > > But, there's one more aspect of this I wanted to mention. Will notes > that AT-SPI on Dbus will give us the opportunity to add accessibility to > small and embedded devices--cell phones, pdas, etc. During the recently > concluded Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit we heard an estimate > from IDC that Linux will drive approximately 50% of all such devices by > 2012. So, we may be on the verge of an explosion of accessibility > opportunities. > > And, to top it all off, KDE and QT get the benefit of AT-SPI based > realtime automated testing, just like Dogtail and LDTP are doing via the > current Corba based AT-SPI. How awesomely cool is that? > > Janina > > > Willie Walker writes: > >> This is indeed awesome news for the community, and it's great to see >> that the people who did the AT-SPI/DBus feasibility study are the ones >> that will be doing the work. >> >> Some of the major impacts of this work include: >> >> 1) Releasing accessibility from the shackles of the out-of-style >> CORBA/Bonobo technology and into the hip with-it DBus space. >> >> 2) Unifying accessibility infrastructure across KDE and GNOME, paving >> the way for users to be able to use one assistive technology to be used >> to access both desktops. >> >> 3) By shedding CORBA/Bonobo, it helps enable accessibility solutions to >> migrate to the small device and embedded space. >> >> All very exciting stuff! >> >> Will >> >> >> JGJones wrote: >> >>> I came across this on Planet Gnome and thought it would be of interest >>> if no-one heard of. Apologises if you all already know this and I'm a >>> bit slow on the uptake :-) >>> >>> http://blog.floopily.org/2008/04/23/nokia-funds-d-bus-based-accessibility/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >>> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >> > > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
