[release-notes/gnome-2-30] add a11y page / changes



commit e2e964e2698e62ead961ee700d703fa18c141b39
Author: Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>
Date:   Tue Mar 23 14:15:49 2010 -0500

    add a11y page / changes

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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"; [
+<!ENTITY urlfiguresbase "figures/">
+<!ENTITY gnomeversion "2.30">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="rna11y">
+	<title>What's New In Accessibility</title>
+
+	<para>
+	 GNOME has a passion for making software available to everyone, including
+	 users and developers with impairments that can make it harder to use their
+	 computers. To help, GNOME created the GNOME Accessibility Project and an
+	 accessibility framework that is now a standard on libre desktops.
+	</para>
+
+	<para>
+	 GNOME &gnomeversion; continues to build on its prior accessibility
+	 credentials with several improvements.
+	</para>
+
+	<sect2 id="rna11y.orca">
+	 <title>Orca Screen Reader</title>
+
+	 <para>
+	  The <application>Orca</application> screen reader has had significant
+		work done to reduce program bugs and improve performance, with over 160 bugs
+		fixed for GNOME &gnomeversion;. Some of the improvements include:
+	 </para>
+	 <itemizedlist>
+	  <listitem><para>
+     The preferences user interface has been updated to improve Orca on netbooks.
+		</para></listitem>
+		<listitem><para>
+		 You can now run "orca --replace" to start a new Orca process that also kills all
+		other running Orca processes.
+		</para></listitem>
+		<listitem><para>
+		 Orca now has a new "About" dialog.
+		</para></listitem>
+	 </itemizedlist>
+
+  </sect2>	
+  
+  
+  <sect2 id="rna11y.a11y">
+  	 <title>Other Accessibility Updates</title>
+  	 
+	<para>A significant amount of work has gone into GNOME Accessbility to remove
+	Bonobo.  The D-Bus implementation of AT_SPI has made to work side by side with the CORBA
+	implementation.  GNOME 2.30 is the last official release that will support the CORBA 
+	implementation with D-Bus replacing Corba in GNOME 3.0.
+	</para>
+
+	<para>
+	If you are passionate about making GNOME accessible for all users, now is a great time
+	to join the Accessbility team.  Help make GNOME better for users with disabilities and 
+	join <ulink url="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list";>the GNOME Accessbility mailing list to learn more</ulink>.
+  
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+<!-- vi:set tw=80 ts=2: -->



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