Re: GNOME nominated for the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 4 Aug 2006, at 16:49, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> GNOME was the first such project to make a concerted effort in the
> areas of usability, accessibility, and internationalization.
> Usability means that we keep people in mind when designing our
> software.  Accessibility means that physically disabled people can use
> our software.

Hmm, I'm not sure the a11y team would be entirely comfortable with  
that description of accessibility, but good luck to us anyway! :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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