Re: Nokia to fund D-Bus based accessibility

[David Bolter <dtb gnome org>]

Janina, it is all so awesomely cool.  Thanks for all your efforts behind 
the scenes.

cheers,
David

Janina Sajka wrote:
> This truly is wonderful news. I personally can't wait to take some of
> those KDE apps for a spin with Orca, and I expect there will be KDE
> based AT that will now be able to do the same with Gnome, Open Office,
> and Firefox.
>
> But, there's one more aspect of this I wanted to mention. Will notes
> that AT-SPI on Dbus will give us the opportunity to add accessibility to
> small and embedded devices--cell phones, pdas, etc. During the recently
> concluded Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit we heard an estimate
> from IDC that Linux will drive approximately 50% of all such devices by
> 2012. So, we may be on the verge of an explosion of accessibility
> opportunities.
>
> And, to top it all off, KDE and QT get the benefit of AT-SPI based
> realtime automated testing, just like Dogtail and LDTP are doing via the
> current Corba based AT-SPI. How awesomely cool is that?
>
> Janina
>
>
> Willie Walker writes:
>   
> > 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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