Hi, Shorter would be better, I think.
How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: > Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) > > In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that > touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus > "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the > industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to > the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive > technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the > very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling > accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for > future accessibility work. > > Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable > fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the > MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the > GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and > switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen > reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 tool that helps > encourage accessible user interface design and the accerciser tool that > helps developers analyze how their application is exposed to the > built-in accessibility infrastructure. For tomorrow, the GNOME project > is busily working on enhancing the on screen keyboard and magnifier, > developing ways to use web cameras to move the mouse based upon > head/body position, and making the solution much more friendly to > resource constrained devices such as netbooks and the OLPC. > > Will > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > >> Looks good. >> >> Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some >> examples of the technology? >> >> Stormy >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker >> <william.wal...@sun.com> wrote: >>> Here's a quick snippet I might propose: >>> >>> In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of >>> the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME >>> Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible >>> design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the >>> applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a >>> central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME >>> not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a >>> rich and stable base for future accessibility work. >>> >>> Will >>> >>> >>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >>> >>>> Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so >>>> hopefully one of them will chime in. >>>> >>>> It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to >>>> put there though. >>>> >>>> Stormy >>>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath <b...@bagu.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> <snip> >>>>> > Accessibility: >>>>> > >>>>> > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] >>>>> >>>>> Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys >>>>> not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it >>>>> lost >>>>> in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I >>>>> know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go >>>>> ahead with the Braille handouts. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Ben >>>> >>>> marketing-list mailing list >>>> marketing-list@gnome.org >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>> > -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list