Re: [orca-list] Opportunity to Contribute to GNOME Accessibility: Orca Performance Improvements

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

That sounds like a pretty daunting task to dump on a single person.  I'm 
still trying to find my way around this ATK stuff and gnome so I'm 
probably not qualified to apply for this contract position but I sure 
wouldn't mind some training or something so I could get further along 
and be able to contribute more in the future.

I'm even wondering if those of us who have a serious intent on 
contributing more code changes and analysis of Orca or the applications 
feeding into it, could somehow pick this up more quickly or find some 
good concise training, we could collectively add more to this effort.

I recently found some additional documentation on how to use Accerciser 
but then as I went through the tutorial I found it nearly impossible to 
use the ipython console.  When I asked about this issue on the list 
recently, I got no replies.  Does hardly anyone deal much with 
Accerciser or does noone use the python console? It looked to me like 
that part of Accerciser could be helpful like in other debuggers.

Somehow, the general lack of documentation on Accerciser and other ATK 
functions has been making my learning of this work quite a bit slower 
than I had hoped.

Some of the bugs I am willing to adopt because they interest me are hard 
for me to get started on because I'm still learning how to efficiently 
navigate around in the internals of Gnome, ATK and Orca.  It's slowly 
coming along but still...

I don't mean to sound like a whiner or complainer or be full of excuses 
but I am anxious to get a foot-hold on this so I can really begin to 
help and contribute more to this and related projects.

I wish the winner of this contract lots of luck.

On 11/01/2010 09:46 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> As many of you are aware, GNOME recently received $15,000 for
> accessibility work. [1] I have just posted [2] the description of the
> first of the two projects: Orca Performance Improvements. In addition, I
> have created a new "Opportunities" page for GNOME A11y. [3] It's
> admittedly a bit on the sparse side at the moment, but with luck (and
> work and community involvement) that will change. :-)
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
>
> [1] http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-accessibility-grant.html
> [2] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Opportunities/OrcaPerformance
> [3] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Opportunities
>
>
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