Re: Where does ekiga need to improve?

[Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:42 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hey All:
> 
> As part of the "GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility" effort, we have 
> some 'smaller' tasks to focus on bug fixing in some key modules.  For 
> several reasons, we're considering ekiga as a module to focus on.
> 
> Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video 
> conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP 
> protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable 
> with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting.
> 
> There are a list of known accessibility-related bugs with Ekiga here:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=ekiga&keywords_type=anywords&keywords=accessibility
> 
> For those of you who have been using Ekiga, are there additional bugs 
> that have not yet been logged or identified as accessibility bugs?
> 
> Will

Hi Will,

I know we've talked about this a bit last week in IRC, but I'll bring it
up again here so more people can see.  I haven't followed up yet on
further inquiries via the ekiga mailing list.  But plan to do so soon.

One of the key benefits I see for Ekiga, is using it as the method of
communication to video relay services for Deaf people.  Also as a way of
connecting to video phones which is now a standard device in many Deaf
homes and workplaces.  I need to research this in more detail and
discuss with the different providers, such as SorensonVRS, as I know it
is possible to do it since the technology and protocols are there.
Then come up with a way to polish it so that first time Deaf users can
easily communicate with each other via Ekiga.

I'd like to see if others are willing to work on this project as I think
it is a fairly easy project compared to some of the complexities of
other a11y projects going on.  If anyone's interested, drop me a line.
and we'll put our heads together and figure out the best ways to
approach this as well as approaching the providers out there for how to
connect to their particular videophones.

Bryen