Hi Andrea, My main involvement in GNOME accessibility has been directing EC grant-funded contributions to GNOME specifically and also to GNU/Linux & UNIX desktops more generally. These are from the AEGIS grant project (see http://www.aegis-project.eu/). These include: * GNOME Shell magnification, as realized by Joseph Scheuhammer and the Inclusive Design Resource Centre in Toronto * A GNOME accessibility (regression) testing harness and suite of tests, being implemented by Brian Nitz and Oracle * Contributions to the shift of the accessibility framework from CORBA to DBUS * Some Dasher improvements * Improvements to the eSpeak TTS engine, to date primarily focused on Greek and Spanish, but expanding more to other languages as well * OpenGazer - an open source gaze tracker for commodity webcams (see http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/), which may become part of GNOME in the future * 3 plug-ins to OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice that help: o Generate DAISY format digital talking books for people with print impairments o Braille transcription and printing o Concept-coding framework supported text authoring for people with cognitive impairments Soon I expect AEGIS will also contribute improvements to Ekiga to enable real-time-text communication (which folks in the deafness community have been seeking). While not all of these are "GNOME", many are, and all of these things are used by various folks with disabilities on the GNOME desktop. Regards, Peter On 5/19/2011 3:03 PM, Andrea Veri via RT wrote:
On Wed May 18 16:53:00 2011, foundationmembershipcommittee wrote:Contact Information: -------------------- Name: Peter Korn E-mail: peter.korn AT oracle.com git.gnome.org username (if any): Previous GNOME Foundation member: yes GNOME contributions: -------------------- Summary: Helped launch GNOME accessibility effort. Contacts: Joanmarie Diggs<joanied AT gnome.org> Brian Cameron<brian.cameron AT oracle.com> Li Yuan<lee.yuan AT oracle.com>Hi, could you please give us some pointers regarding your contributions over these two years? You last renewed on Mon, 27 Oct 2008, and since GNOME Foundation's Membership duration is two years, you lost your membership. I am mailing the provided vouchers to receive some informations about your GNOME contributions over these two years. Thanks in advance, Andrea, on behalf of the GNOME Membership Committee ---------------------------------------------------- This message was sent via GNOME.org Request Tracker.
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Hi Andrea, My main involvement in GNOME accessibility has been directing EC grant-funded contributions to GNOME specifically and also to GNU/Linux & UNIX desktops more generally. These are from the AEGIS grant project (see http://www.aegis-project.eu/). These include:
While not all of these are "GNOME", many are, and all of these things are used by various folks with disabilities on the GNOME desktop. Regards, Peter On 5/19/2011 3:03 PM, Andrea Veri via RT wrote: On Wed May 18 16:53:00 2011, foundationmembershipcommittee wrote:Contact Information: -------------------- Name: Peter Korn E-mail: peter.korn AT oracle.com git.gnome.org username (if any): Previous GNOME Foundation member: yes GNOME contributions: -------------------- Summary: Helped launch GNOME accessibility effort. Contacts: Joanmarie Diggs <joanied AT gnome.org> Brian Cameron <brian.cameron AT oracle.com> Li Yuan <lee.yuan AT oracle.com>Hi, could you please give us some pointers regarding your contributions over these two years? You last renewed on Mon, 27 Oct 2008, and since GNOME Foundation's Membership duration is two years, you lost your membership. I am mailing the provided vouchers to receive some informations about your GNOME contributions over these two years. Thanks in advance, Andrea, on behalf of the GNOME Membership Committee ---------------------------------------------------- This message was sent via GNOME.org Request Tracker. --
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