Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-12 Thread Olaf Schmidt
Hi! The KDE developer Gary Cramblitt made proof-of-concept code for a D-Bus based AT-SPI available last year. Trolltech is now actively working on a new implementation, which is independent of the Gnome-internal discussion when and whether to migrate to D-Bus. Gnome has the option to stick

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-12 Thread Willie Walker
Olaf - do you have a pointer to the work being done by Trolltech? Will On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 17:49 +0200, Olaf Schmidt wrote: Hi! The KDE developer Gary Cramblitt made proof-of-concept code for a D-Bus based AT-SPI available last year. Trolltech is now actively working on a new

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-12 Thread Aaron Leventhal
Please, I'd also like this information. - Aaron Willie Walker wrote: Olaf - do you have a pointer to the work being done by Trolltech? Will On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 17:49 +0200, Olaf Schmidt wrote: Hi! The KDE developer Gary Cramblitt made proof-of-concept code for a D-Bus based

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-12 Thread Willie Walker
Thanks Olaf! Does this mean that anyone wishing to consider collaborating with Trolltech needs to wait until the work is public? If so, is there a timeframe for that? Thanks! Will On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:53 +0200, Olaf Schmidt wrote: [ Willie Walker, Di., 12. Jun. 2007 ] Olaf - do you

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-12 Thread Olaf Schmidt
Hi! If you are interested in cooperating with Trolltech, then please contact them directly, for example the community manager Knut Yrvin. Olaf [ Willie Walker, Di., 12. Jun. 2007 ] Thanks Olaf! Does this mean that anyone wishing to consider collaborating with Trolltech needs to wait until

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-12 Thread David Bolter
Also if even part of it becomes public for now would be a great help. Like any planning, roadmap, schedule docs. Is there a wiki? a channel? cheers, David On 12-Jun-07, at 1:14 PM, Willie Walker wrote: Thanks Olaf! Does this mean that anyone wishing to consider collaborating with

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-05 Thread Janina Sajka
Ariel Rios writes: I am not very familiar with the ATK/AT-SPI implementations but I am aware that these implementations are not compatible with the KDE architecture, and a general move to DBUS has been often mentioned. The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative could be the opportunity to

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-05 Thread Bill Haneman
Peter Korn wrote: Hi Jason, As someone working for one of those small number of companies working on GNOME, Mozilla, etc. accessibility, I couldn't agree with you more. I am appreciative of the contributions IBM has made to our work - perhaps in the future we will see a resumption of

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-05 Thread Bill Haneman
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Ariel Rios wrote: I am not very familiar with the ATK/AT-SPI implementations but I am aware that these implementations are not compatible with the KDE architecture, and a general move to DBUS has been often mentioned. The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative could be

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-05 Thread Jason White
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: In the 5-year timeframe I think a move to dbus makes sense. However, to do this, dbus needs to grow. If these sorts of extensions to dbus are deemed undesirable by the dbus team, another technology could of course be considered.

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-04 Thread Gilles Casse
Le lundi 04 juin 2007 à 01:08 -0400, Jacob Beauregard a écrit : The problem to drawing interest to accessibility would be to promote technology in a sense that it will not only help disabled users, but also be something that anyone would use. Yes, I share this idea also. It would be great

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-04 Thread Ariel Rios
I am not very familiar with the ATK/AT-SPI implementations but I am aware that these implementations are not compatible with the KDE architecture, and a general move to DBUS has been often mentioned. The GNOME Mobile Embedded Initative could be the opportunity to implement ATK / AT-SPI over

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-03 Thread Jacob Beauregard
On Saturday 02 June 2007 15:57:59 Deborah Norling wrote: Peter comments: Separate from all that, as someone who has been part of the GNOME and OpenOffice.org accessibility efforts since their beginning (and part of the Mozilla accessibility effort since the start of the UNIX portion of it),

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Jason, As someone working for one of those small number of companies working on GNOME, Mozilla, etc. accessibility, I couldn't agree with you more. I am appreciative of the contributions IBM has made to our work - perhaps in the future we will see a resumption of their effort. I also want

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread Jason White
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:00:45PM -0700, Peter Korn wrote: As someone working for one of those small number of companies working on GNOME, Mozilla, etc. accessibility, I couldn't agree with you more. I am appreciative of the contributions IBM has made to our work - perhaps in the future

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread
On 2 Jun 2007 at 20:18, Jason White wrote: 6. Learn Python! This is the scripting language used by Orca, and there is good documentation available on the Web. I haven't learned Python in depth Do you know if there's a dummies guide to python? What i mean by this is that programming language

Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread Gilles Casse
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Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-02 Thread Steve Lee
On 6/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if there's a dummies guide to python? What i mean by this is that You could try: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Learning with Python by Elkner and Meyers: http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ or the official sites