[dot] aKademy Hosts First Unix Accessibility Forum
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Wed Aug 25 23:30:58 CEST 2004
URL: http://dot.kde.org/1093467688/
From: aKademy Team <akademy-team at kde.org>
Dept: helping-you-help-yourself
Date: Wednesday 25/Aug/2004, @23:01
aKademy Hosts First Unix Accessibility Forum
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On Sunday and Monday the first Unix Accessibility Forum
[http://accessibility.kde.org/forum/] took place at aKademy
[http://conference2004.kde.org/] and was said by participants to be
extremely successful. The most notable thing was that amongst all
participants there was a good spirit of cooperation and consensus that
standards for assistive technologies would ensure success in the
accessibility of graphical user interfaces like KDE
[http://www.kde.org/].
The forum, organised by the KDE Accessibility Project
[http://accessibility.kde.org/], had representatives from IBM, Sun
Microsystems, Novell, GNOME, Trolltech and Free Standards Group and
others. Several projects and companies were given the opportunity to
discuss these standards for assistive technologies like X Accessibility,
assistive device support, speech synthesis and more.
In the slipstream of this event several interviews were conducted,
one of which has already been published on CNET
[http://news.com.com/Open-source+developers+focus+on+accessibility/2100-7344_3-5323812.html?tag=nefd.top].
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