Gentoo Accessibility ProjectThis project will help to make gentoo more accessible to disabled users, and support them as well. We intend to work closely with the Desktop (and in particular the GNOME team), the Kernel, and the Base System teams to help resolve accessibility issues that come up with gnopernicus and other gnome-accessibility applications. We do not intend to make the applications themselves accessible. Rather, we leave that to the upstream authors. However, we can suggest default settings that may help make an application more usable to a disabled user. We can not currently support other desktop environments, because we have not found any others that offer usable accessibility features. KDE and others have tried, but currently GNOME has been the most successful. We also intend to help see that speakup is included in the different kernel sources that Gentoo offers, such as gentoo-sources, xfs-sources and others. We are actively seeking to recruit a dedicated kernel hacker to work with the Kernel team to make sure that our kernel sources have the most updated speakup accessibility patches. We also intend to suggest, or add other accessibility applications to portage that will be useful. For example, we recently added brltty to portage. We aim to make the Gentoo installation process accessibility friendly as well. To that end, speakup is included on the official 2005.0 x86 release of Gentoo's LiveCD. We will be working closely with the Release Engineering team to make sure that speakup is included on all future releases of the LiveCD as well. Additionally, we would like to see it on the installation CDs of the other architectures in the future. Eventually, we would like to see brltty included on the installation CD as well however, this will happen in a future release, as the package requires testing.
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org. The accessibility project maintains the following herds:
|
|
