Re: Proposal to add Orca to GNOME 2.16

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Willie:

I think ORCA is a great product, and I agree it is good to give
users with accessibility needs a choice of different programs to
use.

One issue I see is that ORCA depends heavily on Python.  Python (and
probably more importantly gnome-python) isn't officially a part of
the GNOME Platform.  If the GNOME desktop community thinks it is a
good idea to expose these interfaces via ORCA, it would be good if the
GNOME community could clearly describe how supported the imported
interfaces are.  Perhaps this proposal should also mention the need
to make gnome-python a part of the GNOME platform to support ORCA?

I think a part of your proposal should include details about what
interfaces outside of the GNOME Platform are imported by ORCA.

I notice that you describe some of this here in Chapter 2 of the
ORCA documentation, but you do not provide much detail there.

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/orca/docs/doc-set/orca.html#AEN2220

Brian


> 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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