Re: Braille printing for conferences

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-)

In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value 
that touches all  aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" 
versus  "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead 
 the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility 
infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the 
assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration 
from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has 
compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable 
base for future accessibility work.

Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable 
fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the 
MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the 
GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and 
switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen 
reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 tool that helps 
encourage accessible user interface design and the accerciser tool that 
helps developers analyze how their application is exposed to the 
built-in accessibility infrastructure.  For tomorrow, the GNOME project 
is busily working on enhancing the on screen keyboard and magnifier, 
developing ways to use web cameras to move the mouse based upon 
head/body position, and making the solution much more friendly to 
resource constrained devices such as netbooks and the OLPC.

Will

On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:

> Looks good.
>
> Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some 
> examples of the technology?
>
> Stormy
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker 
> <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > Here's a quick snippet I might propose:
> >
> >  In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all  aspects of 
> > the system. With a model of "built in" versus  "bolted on", the GNOME 
> > Accessibility project has helped lead  the industry in accessible 
> > design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the 
> > applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a 
> > central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME 
> >  not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also  provides a 
> > rich and stable base for future accessibility  work.
> >
> >  Will
> >
> >
> >  On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> >
> > >  Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so 
> > > hopefully one of them will chime in.
> > >
> > >  It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to 
> > > put there though.
> > >
> > >  Stormy
> > >
> > >   On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath <ben bagu org> wrote:
> > > >   On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >   <snip>
> > > >  > Accessibility:
> > > >   >
> > > >   > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools]
> > > >
> > > >  Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you 
> > > > guys
> > > >   not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it 
> > > > lost
> > > >   in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just 
> > > > so I
> > > >   know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go
> > > >   ahead with the Braille handouts.
> > > >
> > > >   Cheers, Ben
> > >
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