[Kde-accessibility] kttsd status

[Janina Sajka]

I think a low traffic, moderated, announcement only type list would be useful. I know I've asked for such a list to be set up for our Free Standards activity, and I would not be adverse to combining this with Free Desktop, etc. 


Jason White writes:
> Bill Haneman writes:
>  > Philippe Fremy wrote:
>  > 
>  > >It looks there are more and more work done at different levels of 
>  > >accessiblity on various desktops. Instead of crossposting a lot, I suggest 
>  > >to create a list dedicated to accessbility on freedesktop.org . It is 
>  > >exactly the kind of project that freedesktop welcomes.
>  > >
>  > There is, I believe, still a mailing list called "fdawg" (Free Desktop 
>  > Accessibility Working Group), hosted by speechinfo.org  
>  > (fdawg at speechinfo.org).  It's now hosted by Jason White, but there 
>  > hasn't been much traffic on it of late.
> 
> Correct. The original list administrator, JP Schnapper-Casteras, asked
> me to look after it for him. The list has never had much traffic -
> just the occasional announcement or update for the most part.
>  > 
>  > I wonder if this existing list would be a good place to have these 
>  > discussions?
> 
> Yes, unless there is a good reason to the contrary. I was considering
> sending out a message just to find out what the existing
> subscribers thought should be done with the list, whether it should
> remain an extremely low-traffic list with an occasional announcement,
> or whether they wanted more discussion.
> 
> In fact, I don't even know who is subscribed, how many subscribers
> there are, or who has control of the administrative aspects of the
> list itself. An earlier request of mine for general updates on what
> list subscribers were doing, or thinking about, regarding desktop
> accessibility wasn't received with much enthusiasm, which could be a
> good sign (i.e., people were so busy  with productive work that they
> had no time to write about it on the mailing list).
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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