Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hi all, (sorry for cross-posting again) The Ubuntu Accessibility Team is hosting up to three development projects during this year's Summer of Code. The SoC scheme is an opportunity to break some new ground and so we are focusing on new tools. There are technologies coming on line such as

Re: Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread Olaf Jan Schmidt
[ Henrik Nilsen Omma ] I'll be acting as official mentor for the students, though I'm also hoping for support from the wider AT community. I am already step upas a mentor for KDe-related accessibility SoC projects, and of course I would be willing to co-mentor any accessibility SoC projects

Re: Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote: I am already step upas a mentor for KDe-related accessibility SoC projects, and of course I would be willing to co-mentor any accessibility SoC projects received at Ubuntu (at least if they are not planned to be Gtk-only). Cool! Now let's just hope we get some good

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like gok --simple (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). There is enough overlap that keeping common code common would be nice (vs. fragmenting approaches). Also, with your use case for the student Liza,

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread David Bolter
Peter Korn wrote: Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like gok --simple (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). Yes. This is difficult though, since I can understand both sides of the fence here. My biased (gok maintainer) opinion is that

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Peter Korn wrote: For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like gok --simple (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). There is enough overlap that keeping common code common would be nice That is certainly an option. I will need to discuss this with the student who takes

Re: [Kde-accessibility] Accessibility Summer of Code projects

2006-05-05 Thread David Bolter
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: David Bolter wrote: Peter Korn wrote: Hi Henrik, Cool stuff. For the on-screen keyboard, please consider doing something like gok --simple (assuming folks like David Bolter agree). Yes. This is difficult though, since I can understand both sides of