I don't think there is anyone currently targeting governments but I think we need to do this. Anybody
willing to help Sanne?
Stormy
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Sanne te Meerman <sanne opensourceadvies nl <mailto:sanne
opensourceadvies nl>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<mailto:ben bagu org>> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03
PM, Stormy Peters
<stormy gnome org
<mailto: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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