Peter this is totally fantastic and even better news than I had hoped for. Thank you for all your hard work making this possible. Many, many people are going to benefit from the improved open accessibility.
-- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk 2008/10/17 Peter Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am *very* pleased to share with you news about the AEGIS project, a €12.6m > investment in accessibility, with the vast majority of it focused on open > source solutions. > > Rather than repeat here all that I have written about AEGIS already, I will > instead invite you to read about it in my blog: http://blogs.sun.com/korn/ > or check out the AEGIS website at: http://www.aegis-project.eu/ > > I have worked in the field of accessibility for nearly 17 years, and on open > source accessibility almost a dozen of those years. In that time, open > source accessibility has become a deep and abiding passion. > I'm very proud that the techniques we have pioneered in the open source > community have since been adopted by Apple with the Macintosh & VoiceOver, > and are being adopted by Microsoft with UI Automation. These same > techniques are enshrined in the report a 42 member committee delivered to > the U.S. Access Board earlier this year (and which at this very moment being > reviewed by them as they work on their refresh of the Section 508 > accessibility standard). And these techniques are at the core of the AEGIS > project. > > With AEGIS, over the next 3.5 years we will attempt to bring programmatic > accessibility more fully to the web, and to the mobile world. With AEGIS we > will also address a number of issues that still remain in accessibility on > the open desktop. And while we're at it, we will bring a bunch of new and > talented people into the open source accessibility community (you should > start seeing them showing up on our mailing lists and wikis in the coming > months). We will also fund a number of the experts who have already made > tremendous open source accessibility contributions - to enable to them to > continue and to do even more. I'm sure they will shortly make their voices > heard on these lists and in the blogosphere. And we will explicitly fund a > number of European disability organizations. These organizations and many > dozens of their members will be providing their expert input on our work, > and thoughtfully evaluating our prototypes, and perhaps adopting the > solutions we come up with because they do a great job of meeting their > needs. > > Oh, and we'll also write a bunch of open source accessibility code. > > > This Sunday the 19th of October marks the 8th anniversary of the GNOME > Accessibility Project. AEGIS helps bring a fantastic 8th year to a close, > and also serves to inaugurate the next 3.5 years! > > > Regards, > > Peter Korn > Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
