Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:39:44PM -0600, Nolan Darilek wrote: > > Interesting, gnome-terminal has always worked fine for me. I do get > occasional odd breakage, but usually only on the level of annoyance, > and likely due to me using edge versions of certain apps and > libraries. I wonder if

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Jason White
Nolan Darilek wrote: > Interesting, gnome-terminal has always worked fine for me. I do get > occasional odd breakage, but usually only on the level of annoyance, > and likely due to me using edge versions of certain apps and > libraries. I wonder if it may be a distribution issue? I know that >

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Nolan Darilek
On 02/21/2010 11:18 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: Second, I think it's a very gloomy, pessimistic and vague view. What Since I was apparently wrong about Apple, there doesn't appear to be any good examples of success. That's sad. Sad, not necessarily. At least accessibility is being viewed m

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Jason White
Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. In my view, Gnome accessibility will never succeed. It will sometimes > get close, but will never make it all the way. I came to this conclusion > after using Gnome versions from2.2 through 2.28. I've seen several > occasions where a change in Gnome broke accessibility.

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:58:43PM -0600, Nolan Darilek wrote: > On 02/20/2010 11:46 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: > >Hi. In my view, Gnome accessibility will never succeed. It will sometimes > >get close, but will > >never make it all the way. > >... > >In the Apple approach, apps are required to b

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Nolan Darilek
On 02/20/2010 11:46 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote: Hi. In my view, Gnome accessibility will never succeed. It will sometimes get close, but will never make it all the way. ... In the Apple approach, apps are required to be accessible before being included in the operating system. So they've fixe

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-21 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. In my view, Gnome accessibility will never succeed. It will sometimes get close, but will never make it all the way. I came to this conclusion after using Gnome versions from2.2 through 2.28. I've seen several occasions where a change in Gnome broke accessibility. Combine that with the fa