Re: distro that is focused on accessibilty

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

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> De: Flavia Weisghizzi <flavia weisghizzi it>
> Para: marketing-list gnome org
> Enviado: Domingo 3 de febrero de 2013 11:12
> Asunto: Re: distro that is focused on accessibilty
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> Il 02/02/2013 07:13, Sriram Ramkrishna ha scritto:
>
> Hi All,
> > I was reading on /r/Linux on reddit about a distro that is
          looking for donations to work on a completely accessible
          operating system.  I posted a note talking about our own
          efforts at accessibility.
> > More importantly, we are doing our own fund drive and perhaps
          it might be worth doing something jointly.
> >
I have asked them to contact me.  I'm hoping that this might be a good partnership.
> > sri
> Hi Sri,
>
> I think this is a great idea!
>
> I've managed the a11y question in GNOME 2 and the support was very
    good, not so good in GNOME 3, but I was talking just a couple of
    days ago with Juanjo Marin and he confirmed me that a11y team for
    3.8 is reaching some interesting goals.
> :)
>
> Cheers,


Hi !

The transition to GNOME 3.0 was a regression because we weren't able to deliver an accessible desktop in 
time. The main reason was that Bonobo was dropped and we have to migrate all our accessibility stack to D-Bus 
and we didn't have the time to make gnome shell accessible. The design of gnome shell included an 
accessibility icon, so at least it was clear our intentions, though unfortunately the result in 3.0 were very 
poor.  In the transition to 3.0 to 3.4 a lot of work was done in the accessibility technology stack. We think 
that we've got the same level of accessibility in GNOME 3.4 that GNOME 2 in general terms, Orca performs 
better than in the gnome 2 but we have some small details like sticky keys indicator that still are not 
present in GNOME 3 (#647711, still not resolved).

Starting with GNOME 3.6, the accessibility stack has been highly integrated into the core, so users that need 
any assistive technology can use GNOME right from the start. So far, users that needed any assistive 
technology had to activate accessibility support. This was cumbersome, because they had to figure out how to 
do that without the help of any assistive technology that they may need. This feature is an important 
milestone in GNOME's accessibilty.

I think is important to note that GNOME accessibility technologies is the facto cross desktop standard for 
accessibility. The accessibilty team help Qt and KDE developers to improve their accessibility support. 
Thanks to this collaboration, Orca users will be able to access not only GNOME/GTK+ applications, but also 
KDE/Qt applications.

IMHO, distros oriented to accessibility still has sense, but I think/hope we are getting close to make this 
something in the past. At this moment, the big gap to fill for making an major distro accessible is making 
their installer accessible.


Cheers,

   -- Juanjo Marin