RE: Nokia to fund D-Bus based accessibility

["Marc Mulcahy" <marc levelstar com>]

Let's integrate it into the Icon.  We'll do what we can to get that effort
rolling.

Marc 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org 
> [mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf 
> Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:41 AM
> To: Willie Walker
> Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Nokia to fund D-Bus based accessibility
> 
> 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-accessib
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