Re: [orca-list] A tangential foray into history [was Re: quality]

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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I had no idea so much went on behind the scenes, so to speak.  I had
heard about Merkader at one time but never saw anything come to
pass from my perspective.  I think gnopernicus was the first real
progress I had heard about on linux and that even came to a hault and
now Orca seems to be on a roll and I hopeit stays that way.  I guess
the a11y movement had to build up one big head of steam to get
anything rolling at all.  I'm thankful it's been done.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:51:46PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> I wish to thank Willie Walker and Peter Korn for a most informative review of
> the history that gave rise to the accessibility APIs and screen reading
> technologies that we have today.
>
> Although I never had a chance to use Outspoken, I remember reading in 1989 or
> thereabouts that Outspoken for Macintosh had received favourable reviews from
> users, and that it was gaining an excellent reputation.
>
> The cooperation within the community surrounding ATSPI and Orca, including all
> of the applications (Gnome, OO.O, Mozilla, Java, etc.) that support it
> directly or indirectly, is very encouraging. As long as both users and
> developers are satisfied that the cooperation is yielding benefits, that the
> quality of access is improving and that the number of bugs in the relevant
> components is on the decline, then I think we're in a good position to make
> this the most broadly accessible software environment available.
>
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