On Wednesday 10 February 2010 06:00 PM, Dipendra Manocha wrote:
This is indeed a cause of bug worry. This was the real hope and the project
which was bringing confidence of persons with blindness or low vision in the
open source software.
Thanks
Dipendra
We can still do this.
may be if representatives of other organisations such as redhat or
canonical are reading this, they can step in and save the project.
May be SPI (Software for Public Interest) can be intimated about this issue.
A massive letter signing campain from visually disabled people or
related organisations can also be taken up to make oracle realise this
problem.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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To: Indian FOSS Community Network list
Subject: [fosscomm] Fwd: Fwd: [orca-list] An Open Letter to Oracle on
theTopic Of Accessibility
This is a serious concern, particularly to India because we have 10 million
blind people in this country.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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Subject: Fwd: [orca-list] An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of
Accessibility
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:16:12 +0530
From: hackingKK<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
To: Nagarjuna G<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
nagarjun,
This is a bad news, can we do some thing about it from our side.
Do you think it is advisable to try helping orca through any possible way?
Whatever little we can do would be highly helpful.
Tell me how we can help the blind community in FOSS.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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Subject: [orca-list] An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of
Accessibility
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:14:02 -0500
From: Joanmarie Diggs<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hey guys.
For what it's worth, I just wrote a blog entry on Oracle's decision. "An
Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility" can be found at:
http://bit.ly/oracle-a11y
For the sake of convenience, here is the text of that entry:
Dear Oracle:
You don't know me, so please permit me a brief introduction: I'm Joanie.
By day, I'm an assistive technology specialist working with individuals who
are blind or visually impaired. By night, weekend, and holiday for almost
four years now, I've been a GNOME community contributor working primarily on
the Orca screen reader, a project led by Sun's Accessibility Program Office.
Working with the engineers at Sun, both inside and outside of the APO, has
been an honor for a variety of reasons, not least of which is our shared
common belief: Access isn't a privilege; it's a right. Towards that end, Sun
Microsystems strived to ensure that ALL users have access to software and
information.
Does Oracle plan to do the same?
Sun Microsystems believed that these things shouldn't be denied to those who
aren't employed, or who don't live in the "right" country, or who don't
speak the "right" language, or who cannot afford to purchase thousands of
dollars' worth of access technology.
What does Oracle believe?
Through its significant, ongoing contributions to the GNOME desktop, Sun
Microsystems has made computer access possible for many individuals with
disabilities, from all walks of life, all over the world.
Will Oracle embrace the opportunity to continue this important work?
My assumption was yes. In fact, I was feeling quite hopeful. After all, the
past few years have been hard on Sun. But with Larry Ellison's promise of
increased investment in the Sun brand, and Oracle's strong commitment to
accessibility, things would finally be turning around: If one under-funded
APO could accomplish everything that it has, what could the two combined and
properly-funded APOs achieve? At the very least we'd be able to finally get
a handle on all of the accessibility challenges facing GNOME 3.
I was wrong. :-(
Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun's already-decimated APO.
One of those let go happened to be both the Orca project lead and the GNOME
Accessibility project lead, Willie Walker. I truly hope this was an
oversight on Oracle's part, and one that will be rectified very soon.
Because if it is not, and if no other company steps forward to continue this
work, the accessibility of the GNOME desktop will become the open source
equivalent of an unfunded mandate, doomed ultimately to fail.
Oracle's decision threatens to leave many individuals with disabilities
around the world without access to a modern desktop environment. I find that
tragic.
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