Both. Sun is building accessibility support into OpenOffice, and a Sun team in Peiking is doing the same for Mozilla. On Sun, 5 May 2002, Ryan Mann wrote: > > Will this gnopernicus screen reader be able to read applications such as > Mozilla or Open Office? or will an application have to be written > specifically for the Gnome desktp? > On Sun, 5 May 2002, Janina > Sajka wrote: > > > I thought folks on this list would appreciate the following > > progress report on GNOME accessibility: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Bill Haneman <bill.haneman at Sun.COM> > > > > As Marc indicated things are pretty busy here. The GNOME architecture > > and initial implementations of the APIs are nearly complete, we are > > working in several areas. > > > > GNOME 2 is nearing community 2.0(.0) release. We are hoping to get the > > kinks ironed out with regard to keyboard navigation and theme support. > > We are working on some GTK+ themes for low vision including > > high-contrast and large-size icons (which have been done tigert and > > jimmac in the GNOME community). > > > > ATK support for the base GTK+ library is substantially complete and we > > expect to have reasonable support for the core GNOME 2 desktop. Apps > > like gedit, gcalc, gnome-terminal, etc and the GNOME 2 panel are > > substantially accessible, though many bugs remain. > > > > Currently I am integrating the Java Accessibility API into the at-spi > > services, so that Java applications using the Java Foundation Classes > > will be accessible in the GNOME environment. > > > > Work is well underway in the open assistive technology projects as well, > > 'gok' the virtual keyboard suite, and the 'gnopernicus' screen reader. > > Our test tools for at-spi are also continuing to develop. > > > > We have a wish list; in addition to getting close to being able to > > integrate contributions of speech and braille drivers, we need: > > > > * a "virtual DDX" for XFree86 (that is, a way to create a virtual > > display framebuffer within a regular X Server instance), for > > magnification; > > > > * assistance in improving the performance of our basic screen > > magnification service; > > > > * a volunteer to port an upcoming new X extension for keysnooping to > > XFree86; > > > > * someone willing to tackle the issues of accessibility for an open PDF > > viewer; > > > > * people to port applications, test accessibility, and log bugs. > > > > best regards, > > > > Bill > > > > > Best, > > > > > > --JP > > > > > > ===== > > > - > > > Cell Phone - 206-849-9032 > > > Time Zone - Pacific (-08:00 UTC) > > > Home Page - http://ocularis.sourceforge.net > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > > > http://health.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
