Edgy Accessibility features

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Saturday 22 April 2006 13:09, Henrik wrote:
> Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> > GNOME and KDE are indeed planning to unify around the AT-SPI for KDE4. 
> > If that happens, the ATs in GNOME would work with KDE4 apps and the ATs
> > in KDE would work with GNOME apps.  The biggest obstacle right now is the
> > use of Orbit/CORBA.  KDE would like to see a migration to DBUS, but how
> > we get there, and the intermediate steps is unclear.  There is also a
> > shortage of people willing and able to work on this, so not much is
> > happening ATM.
>
> Is this an area where a Google Summer of Code project might be
> appropriate? Are the things that need doing well defined?

What is needed is not well defined.  There is no universal agreement on the 
best way forward.  So I'm not sure that it is appropriate for a SoC, but I 
don't want to say no and discourage anyone from getting involved. :) Suggest 
reviewing the kde-accessibility mailing list.

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-accessibility&r=1&w=2

This thread has some interesting ideas:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-accessibility&m=114363862115658&w=2

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php