[Kde-accessibility] Dot article draft

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

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Hi!

I thought about msending an anouncement to the dot tomorrow.

Here's a draft:

Accessibility.kde.org resurrected

After several weeks of technical problems, http://accessibility.kde.org i=
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on-line again with a completely renewed and enhanced version of the web=20
site.

You now find a new section with Accessibility Reports, and detailed=20
information on the first KDE accessibility IRC meeting, where possible=20
approaches for adding an assisitive technology framework to KDE were=20
discussed.

The new web site structure reflects that a lot of new tasks are being=20
tackled in the KDE Accessibility Project. A great number of people have=20
joined the project, and some keen projects have been started.

Pupeno is writing a DCOP service for text-to-speech conversion. It will=20
support Festival, FreeTTS, the German Hadifax TTS and all text-to-speech=20
programs that can be started by a command line. Interoperation with=20
gnome-speech is also planned.

A first client for that service, KMouth, is being developed by Gunnar.

An even bigger project is adding support for an Assistive Technology=20
Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI) to KDE. Here the KDE Accessibility=20
Project is still in the planning and discussion phase, as every decision=20
on that will have great influence on other areas of KDE and Qt, and on=20
Gnome interoperability.


What do you think?

Olaf

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility team

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