Re: Marketing Accessibility

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

> ________________________________
> De: Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> Asunto: Re: Marketing Accessibility
> 2011/8/24 Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>
>
>  Hi Marketing Team!
> >  For a while now, the GNOME Accessibility Team has been thinking and  wanting to get more involved in 
> > marketing. And we have just been given  the nudge we needed to move from thinking and wanting to actually 
> > doing:  The GNOME Board has suggested we do so. :-) Thus here we are. :-)
>
> Welcome!
>  


:)

> >  There are a couple of items which were specifically mentioned to us, namely:
> >
> >  1. Would it be possible to have a Friends of GNOME campaign for Accessibility? And if so, when?
>
> I'm going to let someone who is involved in FoG to answer that.
>  


thanks ! 


>  2. It might be advantageous for GNOME to do more targeted accessibility fundraising with our sponsors, in 
> which case having materials such as a brochure (or something along those lines) would be a good idea.
> >
>
> Well, I certainly think that we should be able to target accessibility conferences with brochures or 
> something like that.  

Definitely we should work on this

> Secondly, do we have a list of any popular accessibility devices (touch interfaces and the like) that works 
> with GNOME?


I'm not aware of any a11y hardware list compatible with GNOME (though I'm new in the a11y field),  but it 
sounds sensible we also should have one of this :)

Cheers,

  -- Juanjo Marin