I would love to help, but I am only just getting into programming. BTW, I tried to get in touch with Will Walker to pass on how sorry I was regarding his job loss and to find out what the current state of Orca was on Linux. This is indeed very disturbing and more than a little annoying.
Just in case anyone else is trying to get hold of him at his Sun address, it no longer exists. TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 11 Feb 2010, at 12:53, Chris Hofstader wrote: > With last year's lay offs at IBM and last week's lay offs at Sun, the future > of large scale accessibility projects in free/open source software looks > pretty disorganized at the moment. Marco (with whom I used to work at Freedom > Scientific) is really dedicated but the overwhelmingly large Windows market > share leads the understaffed Mozilla to pretty much focus on Windows > accessibility with proprietary screen access tools like JAWS and Window-Eyes. > > While this is unfortunate, it does reach the majority of users so, without > Apple or some other big organization to underwrite an accessibility effort, > it's all up to volunteers. I would think that orca itself would require at > least one full time paid staff member and we ain't got the cash for a part > timer in a lower cost environment like China. > > Project GNU (www.gnu.org) is kicking off its first ever accessibility effort. > This project has zero money and only me to look after it in my spare time. We > will, of course, be focussing on GNU/Linux distros and I can't say that I > know enough about Apple accessibility API to know how similar it is to what I > think is iAccessible2 at the heart of Firefox access on Windows. I do not > know what it uses on GNOME but I would assume it is the GNOME accessibility > API. > > The bad economy in the US and EU is killing large scale free software > efforts. We're back to mostly volunteers and scholars working randomly on > their favorite issues. I'm going to try to add some order to all of this but > it will be a cat herding effort and there are a lot of cats involved. > > cdh > > Happy Hacking, > cdh > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> Looking forward to trying out Firefox with VO working someday. FF has really >> good ARIA support so it would be nice to have a browser on the Mac that >> works well with this standard. Safari currently is weak. >> >> CB >> >> E.J. Zufelt wrote: >>> >>> Good morning, >>> >>> This morning I posted a new blog article on my site: First Glance at >>> Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard, which can be accessed at >>> http://tinyurl.com/ygkfqoj >>> >>> >>> Thanks,Everett >>> >>> Follow me on Twitter >>> http://twitter.com/ezufelt >>> >>> View my LinkedIn Profile >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
