[Kde-accessibility] Re: [kde-promo] Fwd: Free Standards GroupAccessibility Workgroup

Gunnar Schmi Dt gunnar at schmi-dt.de
Mon Oct 20 18:32:10 CEST 2003


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On Saturday 18 October 2003 20:18, Gunnar Schmi Dt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [...]
> As there were no more mails about our statement I would like to finish the
> discussion. I will use the following statement:
>
> <statement>
> [...]
> </statement>
>
> I will send it tomorrow evening to the accessibility workgroup, so that it
> can be included in their press announce. Additionally Olaf Schmidt (my
> brother) wants to put it onto the accessibility.kde.org web site together
> with some additional information about both the LSB workgroup and the
> current state of KDE in respect to accessibility.
>
Someone pointed out some shortcomings in the wording of the last sentence.

We (the KDE Accessibility maintainers) therefore agreed on changing it as 
follows. I have sent this final version to the FSG Accessibility Workgroup.

<statement>
Although there are many ongoing efforts to help persons with disabilities use
Linux systems, most Linux GUIs are still inaccessible to blind persons and
present many obstacles to people who cannot operate a standard keyboard or
mouse.

We do not want to support this social exclusion but rather see the support for
handicapped persons as an important feature for every software. The KDE
accessibility team knows about the problem and they are working on improving
the accessibility of KDE.

In order to get a completely accessible system, applications that use other
toolkits need to be accessible as well. In this sense KDE based assistive
technologies need to interoperate well with applications using other toolkits
and vice versa. We appreciate the foundation of the FSG Accessibility
Workgroup and are very pleased to announce our participation.
<statement>

Gunnar Schmi Dt

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Co-maintainer of the KDE Accessibility Project
Maintainer of the kdeaccessibility package
http://accessibility.kde.org/
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