Fantastic. 2008/4/25 Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > May I suggest we take an upcoming Open A11y teleconference to discuss > how best to engage the community as this migration moves forward? What > do you think? > > I suspect we have topics to consider: > > * What apps need to be rewritten that will not be covered by > * CodeThink, e.g. gnome-speech, py-atspi, what else? How do we > * move these in parallel? > > * How to test on small devices--Marc's offer sounds valuable as an > * embedded test platform at the very least that can take us toward > * a11y on small and embedded devices. > > If you don't know his Icon device, look at http://levelstar.com > > * How can we use this work to expand the community of a11y > * developers in Gnome, KDE, Linux, etc.? > > Thoughts? The calendar is open at the moment. > > Janina > > > > > Marc Mulcahy writes: > > Let's integrate it into the Icon. We'll do what we can to get that effort > > rolling. > > > > Marc > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > > Of Janina Sajka > > > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:41 AM > > > To: Willie Walker > > > Cc: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > > Subject: Re: Nokia to fund D-Bus based accessibility > > > > > > 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-accessib > > > > > ility/ _______________________________________________ > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > > > > > > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the > > > U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com > > > > > > Chair, Open Accessibility [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Linux Foundation http://a11y.org > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > > > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada > Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com > > Chair, Open Accessibility [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Foundation http://a11y.org > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility >
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