Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

[Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:02 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:28, Ben Konrath <ben bagu org> wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> >> Based on the Orca (or even a more general a11y) roadmap, it may be
> >> possible to get some funding from companies or associations interested
> >> in seeing Orca get better (although a lot of the associations seem to be
> >> focussing more on NVDA because it works on Windows).
> >
> > Just thought I'd chime in here. I spent a bit of time searching for
> > funding to work on Caribou after the ATRC  / IDRC cut funding for my
> > position. The feedback I received was a similar story; the potential
> > funders seemed only interested in an applications that would serve
> > their users who primarily use Windows. Obviously this will be an issue
> > when searching for funding for GNOME a11y projects - especially new
> > projects that don't have an established group of users like Caribou.
> 
> What about those companies deploying linux desktops in masse in public
> organizations? From time to time appear in the news some big European
> city or government department that has migrated their desktops to
> Linux. Those vendors aren't asked to provide an accessible solution?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
> 


What about international disabilities associations like:

- International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment
[1]
- ONCE International

I think we can use OLPC/Sugar/GNOME deployments in schools like a good
argument for asking for this. 

Usually, national associations are very Windows-centric, but they can
help to children in poor areas improving the GNOME a11y technologies and
its translation to Sugar.

I think Sugar people would agree with this (Maybe Tomeu or someone from
Sugarlabs can help with this idea if we think is feasible)

cheers,

  -- Juanjo Marin


[1] http://www.icevi.org/
[2] http://www.once.es/new/Onceinternacional/0_pruebaonceint/index_html
[3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Accessibility


> > Cheers, Ben
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