From: "Cesar Mauri Loba" <ce...@crea-si.com> >>> >> Based on the Orca (or even a more general a11y) roadmap, it may be >>> >> possible to get some funding from companies or associations >>> interested >>> >> in seeing Orca get better (although a lot of the associations seem to >>> be >>> >> focussing more on NVDA because it works on Windows). >>> > >>> > Just thought I'd chime in here. I spent a bit of time searching for >>> > funding to work on Caribou after the ATRC / IDRC cut funding for my >>> > position. The feedback I received was a similar story; the potential >>> > funders seemed only interested in an applications that would serve >>> > their users who primarily use Windows. Obviously this will be an issue >>> > when searching for funding for GNOME a11y projects - especially new >>> > projects that don't have an established group of users like Caribou. > > And what about turning Orca into cross-platform? I would attract funding > from different sources.
When you mean turn Orca cross-platform I guess that you are thinking in a cross GNU/Linux-Windows platform, instead of the currrent plan to turn (in the future) Orca cross-desktop KDE-GNOME. So now the problems. Take into account that turn Orca cross-platform is not just be able to compile Orca on Windows. There are more pieces that it would be required to "turn": * at-spi: Orca is a screen reader that gets all the information from at-spi. So at-spi should also be migrated. * new bridge: right now, the communication path between the apps and at-spi is the ATK bridge or the QT bridge. Windows apps doesn't use ATK, AFAIK, it uses IAccessible2. So a new bridge should be required. So, turn cross-platform Orca means turns two modules, and create a new one. This is a really big amount of work to do. And we enter in a vicious circle. You proposed that turn in order to get funds. But we would require a really big amount of funds to get that. BR === API (apinhe...@igalia.com) _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list