Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-09 Thread Leena Chourey
Hello Peter and all, Nice to see a discussion on LD issues. Initially when roadmap of Orca declared and LD was part of it, I started dreaming for Orca with reading support when and where required. I would like to be a part of it. If requirements are clear, yes it has potential to get research fun

Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Korn
Christian, As Mats may recall (from conversations about this in AEGIS meetings), I have also long been interested in seeing such an app.  I personally believe that the foundational work supporting GNOME Shell Magnifier is the right place to start such an effort.  Mu

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Christian: As you say, it would be better to make stronger release team a11y requirements. I think it would be easier to define such requirements once accessibility is working reasonably in GNOME 3. We have made a lot of progress already, so hopefully this will not be so far in the future. cd

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Bill: On 01/ 6/12 07:24 PM, Bill Cox wrote: I agree that the Gnome Foundation gives a11y high priority. My main issues in the past have been that the GTK+ team gives it zero priority, at least when a bug is reported by the community. Padraig O'Briain was the fellow at Sun who did a great de

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Alejnandro. GdkPixbuf is used in cell renderers, which draw cells in tables, lists, and trees. They are used as GUI objects, even if they were not originally intended to be. They are displayed by many programs, usually as status indicators in lists, such as stars for popularity, green check

Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-09 Thread Christian Hofstader
> >> cdh: I agree entirely. THe idea I had was to start an entirely new >> project but use parts of Orca where such would be convenient. > > Joanie: Is there a danger of depending on Orca for this support? I fear there > be. Perhaps the thing to do instead is identify the needs which are in > com

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Piñeiro
On 01/07/2012 03:26 PM, Christian Hofstader wrote: >> cox: In my opinion, the separation of responsibilities is the main reason >> for lack of a11y progress in GTK. If any of the wonderful people >> working on a11y that we are both fans of were able to commit patches >> to GTK, the issues would h

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Piñeiro
On 01/06/2012 04:55 PM, Christian Hofstader wrote: > "Sometimes accessibility lags behind…" is an accurate statement. My question > is why Gnome Foundation would consider a11y issues to have a priority lower > than any other feature of the software. By permitting a11y to "lag behind" > other fe

Ang. Re: Ang: AT for LD

2012-01-09 Thread Mats Lundälv
Joanie and Christian, These are both very good suggestions that I hope may create a foundation for moving ahead with this. Mats Från: Joanmarie Diggs Till: Christian Hofstader Kopia: Mats Lundälv , Brian Cameron , "gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org" Datum: 2012-01-09 02:25 Ärende: Re:

Re: AT for LD

2012-01-09 Thread Stéphane ANCELOT
Hi, I was very surprised reading your message and felt with some emotions. I am a software programmer , that does not suffer of any disease. I came on this list in order being able to obtain information regarding the way for being able supporting accessibility for a program we developped. Unfort