[g-a-devel]Dasher & Gnome Accessibility ....

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi there,

	Great to see the Dasher project; it seems you guys share Gnome's
interest in making computers accessible, most pleasing to see you
releasing it under the GPL.

	Have you seen the Gnome accessibility work ? including our existing [
but far more conventional ] on-screen keyboard 'gok'.

	The a11y architecture is briefly described here:

		http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

	Although that page is horribly out of date - I notice [ the source
'preview' snapshots are very stale, we're shipping as part of the core
of the Gnome 2.0 desktop ], the thrust of the architecture bits is
accurate.

	Since I imagine under X you can use raw XTest It remains to be seen
what extra level of semantic information we can provide you with; but
presumably the ability to introspect the widget hierarchy and adapt to
novel widgets such as combo boxes; menus, toggle buttons etc. gives a
wealth of possibilities.

	Also - of course, the exisiting gok team would be most interested in
some sort of collaboration at some stage I would imagine ? they are from
the University of Toronoto: David, Chris and Simon.

	Anyhow - apologies for introducing ourselves abruptly in this way;
pleasing to see my Almer Mater churning out great stuff in this area.

	Regards,

		Michael.

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 21:59, Luis Villa wrote:
> Neat little alternative to a traditional onscreen keyboard, soon
> (apparently) being released under GPL:
> 
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
> 
> There is a demo binary that runs on Linux. 
> 
> It's pretty nifty, if a little hard to get used to.
> 
> Just an FYI-
> Luis
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