Re: Proposal to add Orca to GNOME 2.16

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

Willie-
This sounds awesome. How does it fit with gnopernicus? Should we
retire gnopernicus from the release, or do they play nicely together,
or...? (Forgive me if this has been discussed before and I missed it.)

Luis

On 4/10/06, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm writing this to propose that Orca becomes an official module of
> GNOME 2.16.
>
> Orca is a scriptable, extensible, AT-SPI-based screen reader that
> provides access to the graphical desktop for people with visual
> impairments.  Orca has been part of the GNOME CVS repository for over
> two years, and has undergone a substantial overhaul in the past 10
> months, with blind people being involved in the design each step of the
> way.
>
> The Orca team recently "outed" Orca at CSUN '06, which is the California
> State University Northridge, Center on Disabilities, Annual
> International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities.
> The response to Orca at CSUN was outstanding, and the activity and
> comments on the orca-list gnome org (archives at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/) have been very positive.
>
> More information on Orca can be found here:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Willie Walker,
> Project Lead, Orca
>
>
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