On 11/11/2011 08:34 AM, David Sexton wrote: > Good morning Hi David, comments inline.
> > I am looking for information on what is most needed to improve gnome > accessibility. More programmers? More funds? More user feedback? Etc. All of that ;) > I am blind and currently using orca and mac. I guess I would describe > myself as someone who writes small scripts to get jobs done, but > certainly not a software engineer. I generally prefer the command line > over GUI, but GUI is really necessary for internet and word > processing. Of course, I'd love it more if orca/gnome were as > rock-solid as the command line. If you are interested in orca, probably you would be also interested in orca and orca-dev lists (although probably you already know about it): https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-devel-list > > I am the IT manager at the International Institute for Social > Entrepreneurs in Kerala, South India. www.bwb-iise.org > <http://www.bwb-iise.org/> > We take motivated and talented individuals from all over the world, > mainly developing countries, who become active to create positive > social change in their communities. > About half of our participants are blind or have other disabilities. > We use mainly Ubuntu. FYI, although probably you already know, there is a ubuntu accessibility list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-accessibility > We have a few things we can offer gnome accessibility: > > - User feedback. We could install latest builds and provide regular > feedback. Anyway, as this is a GNOME mailing lists, we would be more interested on GNOME 3.X feedback. Take into account that some distros are still in the process of moving to GNOME 3. > - Fund raising. We are connected to quite a few donors who are > generally interested in making a considerate impact in the developing > world. > Completely accessible gnome would enable many people to have access to > computers. In that case it would be good if you contact GNOME Foundation. The a11y team is in the process of update the GNOME accessibility roadmap: https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Roadmap So any item listed there are suitable to be funded. > - Since the next IISE course will only start in July 2012, our campus > could be used during the period from mid december to mid June. > We are planning on hosting a few hackfests to improve accessibility of > software and create new software. > We would love to work on anything gnome accessibility has for us. > I can definitely get several college hackers together. In that sense I can think on different ways to start to collaborate: * Take a look to Orca "How Can I Help" page: https://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp * Other starting task could be "compile all the accessibility stack" using jhbuild: https://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild In that sense the basic pieces for the stack are at-spi2-core, at-spi2-atk, pyatspi2, orca, accerciser and then any application toolkit compatible with that stack, for example gtk. * Related with the feedback, and in order to get familiar with the code and some of the present issues, you could also take a look to these links: https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/ThreePointFour/Regressions https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/ThreePointFour/Issues#Other_GNOME_Modules > Maybe some programmers from the company "UST global" as well. > I guess what I need to know, is how to get them up to speed on gnome > and gnome accessibility itself. > Myself, I know a bit of python, but nothing at all about how > accessibility is structured... > > If there's not currently a way to employ people directly through gnome > then It could be that we hire some programmers specifically to work on > gnome accessibility... So if you're experienced in this area and want > to work in India, let us know. > From our viewpoint, we are annoyed that accessibility is almost there, > but not quite good enough to prevent our participants from returning > home and most likely be forced to use illegal copies of windows and > accessibility software. So our thought is: what can we do to get gnome > and gnome-orca to work as well as windows and mac solutions. > On behalf of all of our visually impaired participants as well as all > of them around the world I want to say THanks very much for your > interest, ideas, suggestions and feedback! Thanks for your interest, I hope you heard about you again soon. Best regards. -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias
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