The Fedora Hardware Project

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Mon May 24 21:53:10 UTC 2004


Thanks, Jef. I do agree with this. We've begun moving in this direction.

1.)	There are several activities listed for Free Standards Group Accessibility that are related.

2.)	Over the weekend I've initiated conversation between those of us (like me) who use the Speakup screen reader, and the maintainer of brltty regarding merging our activity. In the short term the goal would be to support both braille and speech users through one set of HOWTO documents and one tweaked distribution. The longer term goal would be to add other specific needs and road map them as you suggest. This activity would be FC specific, but should provide generalizable guidance to the FSG work as well.

Hopefully, I've made some sense in this. I will post here from time to time on this if folks are interested.

Jeff Spaleta writes:
> On Mon, 24 May 2004 15:59:12 -0400, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> > This has been previously reported of course, but I haven't heard of any plan to fix 
> > this. Is there one?
> 
> I strongly suggest that you put together a group of community people
> interested in
> addressing accessibility issues who can prioritize the accessibility
> issue and create a roadmap towards full distribution accessibility
> over a several release timescale and who can provide assistance to
> fedora packagers and upstream project maintainers.  An accessibility
> working group as a subcommunity group could be a very helpful thing,
> especially if they organized a roadmap and systematically help
> developers address accessibility issues in an organized way.
> 
> -jef
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
	Free Standards Group (FSG)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175





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