Re: Braille printing for conferences - connection with Guadec?



Hi,

Repeated request: is there some information I'm unaware of about Gnome and targeting the government market? Or anyone who is experienced in this subject?

thank you,
Sanne te Meerman
Guadec organisation

Sanne te Meerman schreef:
I've just subscibed to this mailinglist, so to avoid being off-topic, I've made a subthread.

I was immediately triggered by this subject and conversation. I am trying to involve Dutch national governemnt with Guadec (I'm part of the dutch team of organisers). Focus on accessibility and usability can draw attention for several reasons, in my opinion: -attention on policy issues instead of technique is important. Accessibility and usability are issues that ring with policymakers (more than technique) -Government is more inclined to have attention to these subjects than i.e. companies because of political attention and pressure to these issues. -the bottom-up development of open source might be the best way to connect with the personal itches of disabled people. The industry involved therefore might have an advantage to more traditional ICT companies in this niche market.

It might be good to have some sessions about usability and accesebility during Guadec. I will propose that. Any other suggestions? Maybe there is some documentation about Gnome and targeting the government market, that someone can point me to. That would be helpful.

thank you,
Sanne te Meerman

Brian Cameron schreef:

Willie/Dave:

It might also be nice to highlight the humanitarian aspects of
accessibility a bit more.  For example, I think it would be nice to
highlight something about the GNOME accessibility community.  Perhaps
something about the fact that a number of people with disabilities
participate in development and in user forums.  I think the promise of
joining a community of people working to address accessibility usability
issues is attractive to highlight.

If that wouldn't make it too long, and you agree.

Brian


Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me.

In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a
rich and stable base for future accessibility  work.

or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence):

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 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 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

Hi,

Shorter would be better, I think.

How about this (pure edit, no additions):

In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader
 or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to
make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a
computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result
GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a
rich foundation for the future.

How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core
value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier
for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the
second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?)

Cheers,
Dave.


Willie Walker wrote:
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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