[Kde-accessibility] project for mEDUXa and ONCE

[Peter Korn]

Hi Olaf,

If you write such a letter, of course point them to/include the Statement on 
Desktop Accessibility Development 
(http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yweb/forms/soi.php).  While it may 
take longer to do so, if you would like the signature of someone from the 
"GNOME side" of the house, I would be happy to work with you on the letter's text.

However, there is a silver lining in what is happening in Spain that we should 
take some heart in: accessibility is becoming a *requirement* for deployment 
of software in schools in these two regions in Spain.  This alone is a great 
achievement for us, for desktop accessibility.  So I suggest that any letter 
you/we send start out recognizing and appreciating the fact that ONCE appears 
to be being successful in requiring that software be accessible before it can 
be deployed in schools.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 17:46 schrieb er general:
> 
>>They went to the local govertment and tried to force that we change it by
>>convincing them that GNOME is a more mature option. They couldn't but now I
>>have to defend our choice (KDE) when nobody before from the local goverment
>>ask me about it (I hope you understand my bad english).
> 
> 
> This is really sad.
> 
> I feel like sending a letter to ONCE.
> 
> I would like to tell them that we closely copperate with Gnome Accessibility, 
> that we share the same techniques, that you can run KDE applications on Gnome 
> and vice versa (so work done for one desktop also helps the other desktop), 
> and that neither KDE Accessibility nor Gnome Accessibility people are 
> interested in these kinds of dektop wars.
> 
> I would also like to tell them that KDE Accessibility is is very interested in 
> cooperating with organisations of blind people, but that we cannot do it if 
> they work against us. I would like to tell them that we were hoping to 
> receive feedback and expertise from them for for improving our software, but 
> that through their behaviour, they have made it impossble for us to trust 
> them.
> 
> I might even tell them that I will have to warn other software developers not 
> to contact ONCE because they might use the information you give them against 
> you.
> 
> Of course I will only write this letter if you don't object to it. And of 
> course I would need some more details: Was it the ONCE organisation itself 
> that officially asked the goverment of the Canary Islands not to use KDE? 
> Would they react negatively if the letter is written inm English? Whom would 
> I have to send it to?
> 
> 
>>I'll have another meeting to talk about accesibility so let see what
>>happens. I'll keep working to see if we get some money or colaboration from
>>the goverment here on the Canary Islands.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Olaf
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