Re: Announcing GOK, Virtual Keyboard for Gnome

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

All,

The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (http://atrc.utoronto.ca/) is 
excited to be guiding the Gnome Onscreen Keyboard (GOK) project. To work 
on a venture that not only has a mission of accessibility, but is also 
being developed under the open source model, is a project tailor-made 
for our team. We look forward to working with the open source community 
at large and contributing to the development of the good work begun 
through the GNOME Accessibility Project (AT SPI).

More Information?
Additional information on the project is forthcoming. Once the gok.ca 
domain has been processed we will have an http conduit for news, 
progress reports, technological issues, innovative solutions, and so on.

Who is on the team?
The University of Toronto's ATRC research and development lab not only 
brings strong leadership to the project with expertise in alternative 
input devices and software, but also a sincere passion regarding 
accessibility issues. (The team has already produced a full-featured 
onscreen keyboard for another platform.) Names you might soon see asking 
questions and providing help (mostly the former to start with) include: 
myself, Chris Ridpath, Ben Konrath, Simon Bates, Jutta Treviranus, Bruce 
Etheridge, Laurel Williams, Nakul Hoelz...

How can I contribute?
Hopefully in the same way contributions have been made to other open 
source projects. We hope to have a CVS repository available shortly. 
Otherwise, we will find a server elsewhere - perhaps here at the 
university. In any event, I will probably be responsible for managing 
the repository (accepting commits, etc.) on this project so you can 
contact me.

Cheers,

David Bolter,
Software Architect - University of Toronto - ATRC


Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hello Folks:
>
> I'm delighted to announce, in cooperation with the Gnome Accessibility 
> Project, the inception of what to my knowledge is one of the first 
> assistive technologies for the Gnome 2 platform [*], and the first 
> LGPL-licensed onscreen-keyboard for linux, Solaris, and other 
> Gnome-ready operating systems.  It will also be the link that bridges 
> the Gnome Accessibility Project's work from 'infrastructure' to 'end 
> user' for many users with mobility disorders, and as such will be one of 
> the first customers for the Gnome Accessibility Project interfaces 
> libraries.  
>
> The project's working title is GOK (Gnome Onscreen Keyboard), and the 
> GOK team proposes to add this project to Gnome CVS.  (gnome-hackers list 
> members, please let us know if this is not agreeable.)
>
> The initial project web page can be found at:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/AT/GOK/index.html
>
> I will leave it to the team to introduce themselves and the project 
> further...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
> [*] by this I mean software AT which interacts directly with the Gnome2 
> platform; accessX is already fully interoperable with Gnome.
>
> [I would also like to acknowledge the previous work of Paolo Molaro in 
> self-voicing for GTK+ (gspeech) and basic screen magnification (gmag) in 
> Gnome 1.X.]
>
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> Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
> Sun Microsystems Ireland 
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