[release-notes/gnome-2-30] add a11y page / changes
- From: Paul Cutler <pcutler src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
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- Subject: [release-notes/gnome-2-30] add a11y page / changes
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:14:45 +0000 (UTC)
commit e2e964e2698e62ead961ee700d703fa18c141b39
Author: Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>
Date: Tue Mar 23 14:15:49 2010 -0500
add a11y page / changes
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!ENTITY urlfiguresbase "figures/">
+<!ENTITY gnomeversion "2.30">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="rna11y">
+ <title>What's New In Accessibility</title>
+
+ <para>
+ GNOME has a passion for making software available to everyone, including
+ users and developers with impairments that can make it harder to use their
+ computers. To help, GNOME created the GNOME Accessibility Project and an
+ accessibility framework that is now a standard on libre desktops.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ GNOME &gnomeversion; continues to build on its prior accessibility
+ credentials with several improvements.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2 id="rna11y.orca">
+ <title>Orca Screen Reader</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The <application>Orca</application> screen reader has had significant
+ work done to reduce program bugs and improve performance, with over 160 bugs
+ fixed for GNOME &gnomeversion;. Some of the improvements include:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>
+ The preferences user interface has been updated to improve Orca on netbooks.
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ You can now run "orca --replace" to start a new Orca process that also kills all
+ other running Orca processes.
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Orca now has a new "About" dialog.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+
+ <sect2 id="rna11y.a11y">
+ <title>Other Accessibility Updates</title>
+
+ <para>A significant amount of work has gone into GNOME Accessbility to remove
+ Bonobo. The D-Bus implementation of AT_SPI has made to work side by side with the CORBA
+ implementation. GNOME 2.30 is the last official release that will support the CORBA
+ implementation with D-Bus replacing Corba in GNOME 3.0.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you are passionate about making GNOME accessible for all users, now is a great time
+ to join the Accessbility team. Help make GNOME better for users with disabilities and
+ join <ulink url="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list">the GNOME Accessbility mailing list to learn more</ulink>.
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+<!-- vi:set tw=80 ts=2: -->
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