GNOME desktop media accessibility settings [was Re: Meeting Update]

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Bryen, all,

Interesting note below about making GNOME accessibility to deaf users.  
Last Friday I was talking with some Sun folks about closed captioning 
and other accessibility issues around video media, and one of them asked 
an interesting question: should a user's caption setting in their video 
player persist across uses of the player?

This led to a larger question: just like theming and whether AT 
libraries are loaded, should there be a desktop accessibility preference 
setting around a desire for closed caption display - and perhaps another 
round video description rendering - which all media players might then 
respect and utilize? 

What do folks on this list think?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> We had a good productive meeting last night covering several topics:
>
> 1) Discussion of bugs and points to consider for GTK+ Hackfest in
> Bolzano Italy.  Flavio Premoli (FlaPer87) will be representing a11y
> interests at the hackfest.
>
> 2) I brought up that we have several open source conferences coming up
> throughout the year in the U.S. (and presumably around the world as
> well.)  Due to budgetary constraints, we cannot send a representative to
> visit all these events.  However, we'd like to know who might be close
> by regionally that could present a11y talks.   I'll come up with a list
> of such events soon and if anyone would like to step up to the plate,
> please do.
>
> 3)  Online hackfest.  We discussed the idea of staging an online one day
> hackfest for the general GNOME community to come to our #a11y channel
> and hack on some bugs that need love.  Ideas on how we can organize this
> and get the word out to the general community is much appreciated.
>
> 4)  HFOSS:  MouseTrap will be submitted to HFOSS for summer internship
> work.  We are trying to do a second project for HFOSS, namely visual
> audio (where there are visual events for audio events) making GNOME
> accessible for Deaf users.   I need to draft up my proposal for how this
> would work.  I should have something put out by today or tomorrow.
>
> Next week, we will have a time-shifted meeting to accommodate other
> parts of the world.  It will be at 20:00 UTC on Monday, February 23rd.
> If you haven't been able to make it to past meetings because of the
> time, please DO show up at this one. We'd love to see you!
>
>
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