That was painful to read. David
Peter Parente wrote: > Hello all, > > Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME > accessibility: > > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer > > Under this new plan, IBM is no longer supporting development of LSR, > Accerciser, pyatspi, AT-SPI::Collection, or Firefox/AT-SPI > accessibility. These projects will not vanish, but the news does have > an impact on each. > > == Accerciser > > Eitan Isaacson is busy preparing Accerciser for inclusion in GNOME > 2.20 under a grant from the Mozilla Foundation. Its development and > documentation is far enough along that it should only require minimal > future maintenance (i.e. bug fixes, updates to stay in sync with > at-spi). As far as I know, Eitan plans to stay on as maintainer of > Accerciser after the grant concludes. Even if Eitan does decide to > leave, someone from the accessibility or automated testing communities > could step up and take ownership over the code. > > == pyatspi > > The Python bindings for AT-SPI are complete enough to power Accerciser > today. Dogtail and LDTP are busy adopting them as well. Orca, as I > understand it, plans to adopt them sometime in the GNOME 2.20 or 2.22 > time frame. I will do my best to support pyatspi as problems arise > until another member of the GNOME community is expert enough to own > the binding. Since pyatspi is in the at-spi module, Li Yuan remains as > the proper maintainer. > > == LSR > > Development on LSR as a screen reader for GNOME will cease. We will > make one last release of LSR 0.5.3 on Monday in line with GNOME > 2.19.3. After that, the project will go dormant until various groups > decide whether the LSR core will be used to drive other open source AT > projects or if it will be abandoned altogether. Over the next few > weeks, I will be updating and writing documentation in case the LSR > core goes on to live in other projects. I will also reorganize the LSR > wiki to de-emphasize the screen reader user content, and put the focus > more on developer documentation. Contact me directly if you wish to > discuss LSR. > > == Firefox and the Mozilla platform > > Aaron Leventhal will remain the maintainer of accessibility for the > Mozilla core. His priorities will now be: 1) ARIA support -- Windows > and Linux , 2) Firefox 3 accessibility regressions, 3) IAccessible2 > and cross-platform issues > > Aaron will not be focusing on Linux accessibility support in the > Firefox 3 timeframe unless it affects all platforms, API harmonization > or ARIA support. The ATK/AT-SPI-specific support of XUL and HTML must > now be via the existing community and module peers. Aaron will > continue to be available to review bug fixes in those areas. Contact > Aaron directly for details. > > == AT-SPI Collection > Ariel Rios has (or will) post his outstanding work on implementing the > AT-SPI Collection interface. I'm not sure of his immediate plans, but > he has expressed an interest in completing the work on his personal > time. Contact Ariel directly for details. Documentation about > Collection can be found at http://live.gnome.org/GAP/Collection. > > --- > > Personally, I am still extremely interested in accessibility and the > GNOME desktop. The IBM decision means that I will no longer contribute > to GNOME through my daily work, but I certainly plan to make > contributions to GNOME as a hobbyist. In addition, I will gladly help > anyone who wishes to develop or reuse any of the projects I worked on > for the past two years. Feel free to contact me about them at any > time. > > Finally, I want to wish all the other accessibility developers on > GNOME the best of luck. Keep fighting the good fight of making free > software accessible to all those who want it. > > Best regards, > Peter Parente > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
