Hi,
I'd like to propose Accessibility Community. The intention is to
strengthen accessibility support for OpenSolaris.
Here is the proposal:
Summary
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To create a Accessibility Community for development and discussion of
accessibility relative content.
Why accessibility
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Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 directs federal
agencies to purchase electronic and information technology that is
accessible to persons with disabilities. Many U.S. States and
International customers have similar requirements. To make people with
disabilities access OpenSolaris, and to support government efforts,
OpenSolaris should support accessibility.
What we do
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The accessibility community's goal is to make OpenSolaris accessible. We
discuss OpenSolaris specific accessibility topics here. Users can ask
questions and report problems about accessibility of OpenSolaris. The
community work together to answer the questions and fix OpenSolaris
accessibility problems.
There are several projects&topics in the plan:
* Accessibility of installer - Enable a person with a disability
to pop in a live CD and install the operating system without
assistance.
* Accessibility of Java - Migration of Java Access bridge from
Bonobo/ORBit to D-Bus
* Accessibility review of new projects - Test new projects and
give Go/NoGo based on section 508 requirements.
* Accessibility of OpenSolaris only applications - Accessibility
for OSPM (OpenSolaris Printing Manager), GPM (GNOME Power
Manager), Network Automatic GUI, nwamd, package manager,
update manager, ZFS disk management etc.
* eSpeak on OpenSolaris. The plan is to retire FreeTTS in favor
of eSpeak. There are many reasons for this (size, locale
support, etc.), and the work is underway. See
http://blogs.sun.com/wwalker/entry/espeak_working_with_orca_on
and http://blogs.sun.com/wwalker/entry/espeak_1_37_has_direct
for more information. The eSpeak on OpenSolaris project should
document this work and also provide a place for people to
discuss any issues that arise specifically with Orca's use of
eSpeak on OpenSolaris.
* BrlTTY on OpenSolaris. The BrlTTY on OpenSolaris project
should document the unique use of BrlTTY on OpenSolaris and
also provide a forum for discussing BrlTTY issues on
OpenSolaris. It might also be a place to discuss autostarting
BrlTTY if a braille display were detected.
* Input device support on OpenSolaris. A community here can help
with the setup and configuration of things such as USB Switch
devices and ensuring they work with applications such as GOK.
* General discussion around getting various assistive
technologies and accessibility support going.
* Documentation/discussion of OpenSolaris-specific things around
issues supporting locales (e.g., TTS users are limited to the
locales supported by the TTS engine(s) they use)
* Accessibility testing.
Leadership
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There will be core contributors and leaders to make decisions related to
accessibility community, including creating new projects, maintaining
existing projects.
Details
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Core Contributors who are nominating the community
* Glynn Foster
* Alfred Peng
* Dave Lin
Initial core contributors will be:
* Willie Walker
* Jeff Cai
* Tim Miao
* Ginn Chen
* Evan Yan
* Li Yuan
Facilitator will be:
* Li Yuan
Thanks,
Li
