[Kde-accessibility] Maintainer

[Iain Murray]

Hi
No need to take off list unless people do not want to hear about apple 
stuff. The we is my school, with me as project leader. We were awarded 
a grant to examine porting emacspeak and or speakup to OSX. Looking 
more closely at OSX it has become apparent that the task of JAWS like 
access (speech) is not as large a problem as first thought, so we will 
head that way. Being BSD (sort of) it tends to to fall in with the 
linux accesability in some ways. Anything we do will be released under 
GPL so it will be open source!

In fact I am typing this on my brand new apple powerbook that they gave 
us, just arrived today, and for sighted users it is very nice. (fast). 
If you would like any more info on the grant, the application is on the 
Apple University Consortium site.
http://auc.uow.edu.au/index2.html

On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 12:37 PM, JP Schnapper-Casteras wrote:

> Hi Iain, all
>     Ok, I hope you can make it - we'll save logs and I'll take notes as
> well.
>
> When you talk about the overlap with Apple, who is the "we" and "work 
> we are
> doing..."?  Are you or is your group working on the usability of OS X? 
>  On
> the accessibility of OS X?  Just curious and wanted to clarify.  You 
> can
> take it offlist if you'd like.
>
> Best,
>
> --JP
>
> Cell: 206-849-9032
> Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~jpsc
> LARS: http://trace.wisc.edu/linux
> FDAWG: http://www.speechinfo.org/fdawg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-accessibility-admin@mail.kde.org
> [mailto:kde-accessibility-admin@mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of
> i.murray@ece.curtin.edu.au
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:11 AM
> To: JP Schnapper-Casteras
> Cc: Olaf Jan Schmidt; kde-accessibility@mail.kde.org
> Subject: RE: [Kde-accessibility] Maintainer
>
> Hi all
> I think I may be the the most difficult re timezones, +8GMT, so I will 
> fit
> in
> with you guys if I can. Re the newbie howto, I actually got the idea 
> from
> reading the Gnome stuff, so I will probably use that as a base, why
> re-invent
> the wheel? ;-) From that I believe there is quite a deal of overlap 
> and also
> with some work we are doing with Apple and getting OSX to talk in a 
> usable
> manner. Apples pdf docs are actually pretty good in describing user
> interfaces
> and accessibility issues, even if they do not design accessability into
> their
> OS.
>
> --
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> Curtin University of Technology
> GPO Box U1987
> Perth 6845 Western Australia
> Ph +61 8 92664540
> Fax +61 9 92662584
>
>
> Quoting JP Schnapper-Casteras <jpsc@stanford.edu>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>     Sure, that sounds great.  I'll be the "team leader" and all of you
> will
>> be "Co-Maintainers" (or feel free to suggest another title).
>>
>> Regarding IRC, how about sometime on this Friday, Nov. 15th on
>> irc.openproject.net #kde-access or something like that?
>>
>> I realize we're all probably in different time zones, but which times 
>> (or
>> days, if Friday is bad) work well for you (in GMT/UTCor with specified
> time
>> zone please :-))?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --JP
>>
>> P.S. Iain: Doing a newbie tutorial sounds great - you might also want 
>> to
>> see
>> if / where there is overlap with the "GNOME Accessibility for 
>> Developers"
>> document ( 
>> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/index.html).
>>
>> Cell: 206-849-9032
>> Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~jpsc
>> LARS: http://trace.wisc.edu/linux
>> FDAWG: http://www.speechinfo.org/fdawg
>>
>>
>>
>
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