I'm in touch with both Willy and Mike and I'll pass on your regards. On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:17 AM, James & Nash wrote:
> 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. -- 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.
