Re: Nokia to fund D-Bus based accessibility

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

This is indeed awesome news for the community, and it's great to see 
that the people who did the AT-SPI/DBus feasibility study are the ones 
that will be doing the work.

Some of the major impacts of this work include:

1) Releasing accessibility from the shackles of the out-of-style 
CORBA/Bonobo technology and into the hip with-it DBus space.

2) Unifying accessibility infrastructure across KDE and GNOME, paving 
the way for users to be able to use one assistive technology to be used 
to access both desktops.

3) By shedding CORBA/Bonobo, it helps enable accessibility solutions to 
migrate to the small device and embedded space.

All very exciting stuff!

Will


JGJones wrote:
> I came across this on Planet Gnome and thought it would be of interest 
> if no-one heard of. Apologises if you all already know this and I'm a 
> bit slow on the uptake :-)
>
> http://blog.floopily.org/2008/04/23/nokia-funds-d-bus-based-accessibility/
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