Re: UNIX Accessibility at CSUN, hands-on sessions with assistive technologies

["Thomas Ward" <slingshooter valkyrie net>]

Hi, Peter. Are there going to be any transcripts etc from the conference I
could read after it is over?
Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the conference, but I would
certainly like to hear about what is coming up in StarOffice and Mozilla. As
well as all the gnopernicus info.
Thanks.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Korn" <peter korn sun com>
To: <JA-PR basso SFBay Sun COM>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: UNIX Accessibility at CSUN, hands-on sessions with assistive
technologies


> Sun Microsystems, Inc. is hosting a series of sessions on UNIX
Accessibility
> at the CSUN Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities at the
> Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel next week, on March 20th.  This series
of
> three sessions begins Thursday morning at 8am on March 20th in the
> Atlanta-Boston room, and is part of the general CSUN conference.  The
> sessions will discuss the GNOME desktop accessibility features, examine
the
> upcoming versions of StarOffice and Mozilla and illustrate the support for
> accessibility being developed for those products, and will detail the two
> outstanding assistive technologies in development for GNOME: the
Gnopernicus
> screen reader/magnifier with rich Braille support, and the GOK dynamic
> on-screen keyboard with support for single switch, scanning, and head
> tracker input.
>
> In addition, Sun is leading a series of "Accessibility Experience"
sessions
> in the Washington room for small groups of participants on Thursday
> afternoon, all day Friday, and Saturday morning March 20th-22nd.  These
> sessions will be hands-on guided tours of the GNOME desktop and
applications
> through the use of either the Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier for
GNOME,
> or the GOK dynamic on-screen keyboard.  Participants will be shown the
> highlights of the features of these two assistive technologies, and
explore
> their use on the GNOME desktop and with a variety of applications.  Make
an
> appointment to attend one of these sessions at Sun's booth in the
Washington
> room of the Marriott Hotel, or during the Thursday morning presentations
in
> the Atlanta-Boston room.
>
> The Sun Accessibility team invites everyone who has an interest in finding
> out the latest information about accessibility to UNIX systems, including
> access to Solaris and GNU/Linux, to join us for these in-depth
presentations
> and hands-on sessions with the technologies.  Attached below is
information
> about this series of presentations.  We hope you can join us.
>
> We also invite you to visit us at our booth in the Washington room of the
> Marriott Hotel, and see the latest in Java technology accessibility and
> access to Java applications from the Microsoft Windows desktop.
>
> On behalf of Sun Microsystems,
>
> Peter Korn
> Sun Microsystems Accessibility team
> access sun com
> http://www.sun.com/access
>
>
> ==========================================================================
>
>    CSUN Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities
>       UNIX Accessibility sessions, Thursday March 20th, 2003
>   Atlanta-Boston rooms of the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel
>                  hosted by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
>  8:00am-9:00am
>  UNIX and GNOME Accessibility overview
>  -------------------------------------
>  This presentation will provide a guided tour on the GNOME 2 desktop.  We
>  will demonstrate the built-in accessibility features of GNOME on both
>  the Sun Solaris(TM) Operating Environment and for GNU/Linux.  Highlights
>  include the themeing support of the graphical GNOME desktop, the
>  rich set of applications that are available and being made accessible
>  for GNOME, and brief demonstrations of the two assistive technologies
>  in development: the Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier with rich Braille
>  support, and the GOK dynamic on-screen keyboard supporting single
>  switch scanning and head trackers with dwell selection.
>
>  Speakers:
>      - Peter Korn, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>      - Gary Little, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
>  9:20am-10:20am
>  Accessible UNIX Applications: StarOffice(TM) and Mozilla(TM)
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>  In this presentation, we will give an overview of the forthcoming
>  release of the StarOffice application suite, including the built-in
>  accessibility features of the word processing, spreadsheet, and
>  presentation packages.  We will show how StarOffice supports the desktop
>  theme, mouseless operation, and assistive technologies on both the GNOME
>  desktop with the Solaris Operating Environment and GNU/Linux, and also
>  on the Microsoft Windows platform.  We will also give a an overview
>  of the forthcoming release of the Mozilla browser, showing the built-in
>  accessibility features and how they support browsing the web.  We will
>  demonstrate support for the GNOME desktop theme and keyboard navigation,
>  as well as inter operating with assistive technologies on the GNOME
>  desktop.
>
>  Speakers:
>      - Peter Korn, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>      - Malte Timmermann, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
>  10:40am-11:40am
>  Assistive Technology for UNIX: Gnopernicus Screen Reader/Magnifier
>  and GOK, the GNOME On-screen Keyboard
>  -----------------------------------------------------
>  In this presentation, we will give a detailed demonstration of the open
>  source Gnopernicus screen reader/magnifier for GNOME desktop, with full
>  Braille support.  We will demonstrate the features and functions of
>  Gnopernicus, and show how a blind or visually impaired user can be
>  effective with the GNOME desktop on a UNIX system.  We will also
>  demonstrate GOK, the open source GNOME on-screen keyboard, with support
>  for single switch, scanning, dynamic keyboard functionality, and
>  customizable displays.  We will demonstrate how users with severe
>  physical impairments can be very effective and surprisingly efficient
>  with the unique features of GOK that provide direct switch access to
>  menus, toolbars, and the user interface elements in dialog boxes
>  utilizing the accessibility architecture in the GNOME platform.
>
>  Speakers:
>      - Thomas Friehoff, BAUM Retec AG
>      - Simon Bates, University of Toronto ATRC
>      - Peter Korn, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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