I didn't know that operating systems had to be 508 compatible. I thought that that was only for government stuff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government > Hey, Jim: > > Very interesting. Any chance of accessing via gnome which should have > something for us soon. > > I would imagine a lot of what people there want to see is graphical--but > that has to be driven by numbers underneath--lots of numbers. Could you > get at those numbers if necessary? Is this an open interface within NOAA, > at least, so that you might just map, or have someone map, another front > end over the app via ncurses? > > Put this differently, is your job at stake over this? > > I ask, in part, because I'm helping to organize an event on June 18 over > at NSF about 508 opportunities for the open source community. > > On Mon, 18 > Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > > > Hey Janina, > > The National Weather Service's entire Advanced Weather Information > > Processing System (AWIPS) is soon going to be entirely running on Linux. > > One of the fastest super computers in the world run by the Forecast > > Systems Laboratory runs on Linux. However, AWIPS is inaccessible > > because just about all of the applications run under XWINDOWS. > > > > Jim > > On Tue, 12 > > Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > > Just when you thought that U.S. Government might be a registered trademark > > > of Microsoft Corporation (TM), here comes a U.S. Government web site > > > running Debian and Apache. Guess what? It's about disability, and > > > opportunities for persons with disabilities in the U.S. Check it out at: > > > > > > http://www.disabilitydirect.gov > > > > > > What would you like to see on this site that isn't there? What programs > > > and services would you like the U.S. Government to consider that involve > > > open source and organizations of persons with disabilities? Let me know. > > > I'll pass your ideas along. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
