GOK awarded first place in Accessibility category Trophées du Libre

[Simon Bates <simon bates utoronto ca>]

We are very pleased to announce that GOK (http://www.gok.ca) has been
awarded first place in the Accessibility category at the first Trophées
du Libre International Free Software Competition. The awards ceremony
was held in Soissons, France on 23 May 2003.

For more information on the competition please visit:

http://www.tropheesdulibre.org

Thank you to all those who have worked on the GNOME Accessibility
Project (GAP) which makes GOK possible. Thank you also to everyone who
continues to work towards making a free accessible desktop. Thank you!

For more information on GAP please visit:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has
participated in the development of GOK:

Main Programmers
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(in alphabetical order)

Simon Bates <simon bates utoronto ca>
David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>
Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
Chris Ridpath <chris ridpath utoronto ca>

Direction
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Jutta Treviranus

Contributors
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Calum Benson
Abel Cheung
Bruce Etheridge
Peter Korn
Duff McCourt
Michael Meeks
Christian Meyer
Marc Mulcahy
Christian Neumair
Padraig O'Briain
Laszlo Peter
Linda Petty
Christian Rose
Pablo Saratxaga
Yuriy Syrota
Laurel Williams
Cynick Young

The GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK) is a dynamic on-screen keyboard for
UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It features Direct Selection,
Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning access
methods and includes word completion.

GOK includes an alphanumeric keyboard and a keyboard for launching
applications. Keyboards are specified in XML enabling existing
keyboards to be modified and new keyboards to be created. The access
methods are also specified in XML providing the ability to modify
existing access methods and create new ones.

GOK is not limited to presenting keyboards that have been designed by
hand and is able to dynamically create keyboards so that it can adapt
to the user's current situation. GOK is able to redisplay components
of the user interfaces of running applications directly within GOK as
keyboards. This provides efficient access to elements of the user
interface, removing the need to navigate the interface indirectly
though keyboard accelerators. GOK supports the redisplay of
application menus and toolbars. GOK contains a window activator
keyboard that lists the current windows on the desktop and provides
the ability to switch between them.

Users have the option of setting key width, height, and spacing as
well as visual and auditory feedback on highlighting and selection.

For more information on GOK please visit:

http://www.gok.ca

Best wishes,
The GOK Team.