I'm late, and sorry. Purpose: Caribou is a text entry and UI navigation application being developed as an alternative to the Gnome On-screen Keyboard. The overarching goal for Caribou is to create a usable solution for people whose primary way of accessing a computer is a switch or pointer device.
Target: Desktop Dependencies: None that are outside the usual. We might be using clutter in the future for more interesting keyboards and features. Resource Usage: Gnome Git, Bugzilla and FTP. GNOMEyness, community: >From the start Caribou has been seen as The next generation GNOME onscreen keyboard. The early design process included the community, specifically the bigger a11y community. Caribou draws from GOK as it's predecessor and seeks to fill the gap that is left now that GOK is not following us into GNOME 3.0. On the technology front Caribou uses the usual suspects PyGTK+, AT-SPI, etc. Other Notes: As mentioned above, GOK (GNOME Onscreen Keyboard) is being discontinued along with it's deprecated dependencies in GNOME 2.x. This leaves a need for an alternative input assistive technology. I believe the a11y community supports Caribou and the goals it sets out to achieve. In the last several months there has been a lot of interest around Caribou from student groups like Project:Possibility and HFOSS. There is also funding from Consorcio Fernando de los Rios for warp.es adding switch access features. Status and future: Caribou is definitely still in early development stages. Hopefully with the help of the different interested parties we could have a limited, yet solid feature set for GNOME 3.0. We will continue expanding on features in the following releases. My personal investment is to see that this module is managed in a way that is conducive to the larger GNOME project, conforms to the release schedule, and eventually gets into users hands! _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list