On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:32:03PM EST, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just tested the latest daily Live CD yesterday and found that it now 
> has the new 'F4' option for accessibility features. Yay! I still can't 
> get over how cool that is :) What other distro (or OS) has that level of 
> support built in from start? OK, so it doesn't actually do anything just 
> yet :/

Thanks for pointing this out. I have a cron job to sync to the latest 
daily images, so I will have a look in the next day or so.

> That's where we have a job to do. We need to identify exactly which 
> applications must be installed with which settings for the different 
> modes. For example AFAIU, to run gnopernicus sucessfully with screen 
> reading, esd must be turned of, so we must ensure that it is off by 
> default in that mode. I'll make a wiki page where we can list these 
> things in detail, so we make sure devs setting it have the info they need.
> 
> Of course we also have to TEST the individual AT features that will now 
> be available by default. When I tried gnopernicus in Dapper a few days 
> ago it completely broke my X. Anyone have it working? I'll try again in 
> a few days and if it's still broken start filing bugs.

I tried Gnopernicus on a dapper chroot only two-three days ago, and had 
no problems. This is not on a dapper install with newest packages mind 
you, so there still may be problems. I will check this also.

> I'd like to schedule a meeting for next week, now that we have some 
> important thinks to talk about. Is Wednesday still a good day for 
> everyone? 19.00 UTC?

Wednesday/Thursday is fine for me, just mention a time. I won't be able 
to attend the meeting any earlier than 13:00 UTC.

Please keep us posted re the wik page on accessibility implementation.
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