Speakers | |
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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias | |
Schedule | |
Day | Sunday |
Room | H.1308 |
Capacity | 150 |
Start time | 09:15 |
End time | 09:55 |
Duration | 00:40 |
Info | |
Track | CrossDesktop Devroom |
Attachments | |
2012-apinheiro-fosdem-talk.pdf (slides) |
GNOME 3.4 accessible: Status, news, future
In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. [1]
From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days.
On April 2011 GNOME 3.0 was released, and although GNOME and the accessibility made a huge effort, the accessibility support was not ideal. But not are bad news. Finally the accessibility technologies are starting to be used from the two main free desktops. AT-SPI is starting to be used on KDE distros, and Orca is starting to be functional with Qt apps. Since GNOME 3.0 a big effort was done in order to improve the situation. At the moment of this proposal writing an ATK/AT-SPI2 hackfest is being organized, in order to fix the issues from the framework itself.
The purpose of this presentation is explaining: * Introduce accessibility on GNOME. * Briefly explain the status towards GNOME 3.4 * Summarize the output of the ATK/AT-SPI2 hackfest * Compare GNOME 3.0 vs GNOME 3.4 * KDE status and cooperation * Future
[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/accessibility-devel-guide/nightly/gad-how-it-works.html.en
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