Re: Accessibility state of the union

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Cosimo.

Igalia has me working full time on accessibility (maintaining and
developing Orca; working on Web Accessibility and associated W3C
standards such as ARIA). I blogged about the improvements to Orca's
Firefox support and the addition of MathML support here:
http://blog.grain-of-salt.com/2015/09/new-in-orca-3-18-firefox-support-rewrite-and-mathml.

Plans for 3.19/3.20 include moving Orca's settings to GSettings (Orca
currently rolls its own), adding support for plugins through libpeas,
and creating an Orca-controlled caret for WebKitGtk content (i.e. as is
done for Gecko already).

As for Wayland, I've not looked in a while. But last time I checked,
Wayland doesn't appear to be all that broken for Orca. However, it would
be great if these bugs could be addressed:

* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709999
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710012

--joanie

On 11/10/2015 09:44 PM, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm reaching out to the team on behalf of the Foundation Board to
> inquire about the state of the union of accessibility.
> Especially with the advent of technologies like Wayland or xdg-app
> sandboxing, is there any pending work or roadmap that the team could share?
> We also noticed that up until a couple years ago the team was hosting
> hackfests regularly, but this seems to have stopped; the Board is of
> course available to help if needed.
>
> Looking forward to your replies!
>
> Cheers,
> Cosimo
>
>
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