On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:02 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:28, Ben Konrath <b...@bagu.org> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> Based on the Orca (or even a more general a11y) roadmap, it may be > >> possible to get some funding from companies or associations interested > >> in seeing Orca get better (although a lot of the associations seem to be > >> focussing more on NVDA because it works on Windows). > > > > Just thought I'd chime in here. I spent a bit of time searching for > > funding to work on Caribou after the ATRC / IDRC cut funding for my > > position. The feedback I received was a similar story; the potential > > funders seemed only interested in an applications that would serve > > their users who primarily use Windows. Obviously this will be an issue > > when searching for funding for GNOME a11y projects - especially new > > projects that don't have an established group of users like Caribou. > > What about those companies deploying linux desktops in masse in public > organizations? From time to time appear in the news some big European > city or government department that has migrated their desktops to > Linux. Those vendors aren't asked to provide an accessible solution? > > Regards, > > Tomeu >
What about international disabilities associations like: - International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment [1] - ONCE International I think we can use OLPC/Sugar/GNOME deployments in schools like a good argument for asking for this. Usually, national associations are very Windows-centric, but they can help to children in poor areas improving the GNOME a11y technologies and its translation to Sugar. I think Sugar people would agree with this (Maybe Tomeu or someone from Sugarlabs can help with this idea if we think is feasible) cheers, -- Juanjo Marin [1] http://www.icevi.org/ [2] http://www.once.es/new/Onceinternacional/0_pruebaonceint/index_html [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Accessibility > > Cheers, Ben > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > foundation-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list