Re: Braille printing for conferences



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 Walker 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 <ben bagu org> wrote:


 On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy 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

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