Re: Gnome Accessibility and OpenMoko

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Gilles:

I'm fairly interested in the OpenMoko for a variety of personal reasons 
and would definitely like to see accessibility support on it.  One of 
the bigger barriers I see to the platform is that there is no keyboard. 
 As such, the touch-screen-only approach can prove to be a significant 
barrier to people with visual and milder physical impairments.  Users 
who use switches (e.g., GOK users) and possibly even users who use 
eye/head tracking devices, however, might benefit from an accessible 
mobile platform.

As an alternative route, we might consider looking at getting GNOME a11y 
working on the OLPC project.  With that, we should get considerable 
experience with what is needed to get GNOME a11y going on a small device 
with memory and CPU constraints.  That should then hopefully overlap or 
fall over into work for OpenMoko accessibility.

Will

PS - Thanks so much again for all your work with eSpeak and gnome-speech.

Gilles Casse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would you be interested in evaluating the feasibility of integrating the 
> Gnome Accessibility Project in OpenMoko?
>
> We could perhaps join our efforts in a third party project hosted by 
> projects.openmoko.org.
>
> Best regards,
> Gilles
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