[Accessibility] Mention of FSG Accessibility in German publication

Janina Sajka janina at freestandards.org
Mon Mar 6 07:11:07 PST 2006


I think this gives us a good reason to update our on line membership
list. There is such a list on our web site, and it is quite out of date.
If we update this by end of March, would that be timely? Should it be
sooner?

Olaf Jan Schmidt writes:
> Hi!
> 
> I am in contact with the editor of a German publication listing all kinds of 
> assistive technologies and accessibility aids. The publication is paid by the 
> German government and will be available by health insurances, resellers, 
> people with accessibility needs, etc.
> 
> Among the listed assistive technologies will of course be gok, Gnopernicus and 
> Dasher. There will also be an overview of AT-SPI, open standards, free 
> software accessibility, and a mention of the workgroup.
> 
> The editor is already in contact with the German divisions of Sun Microsystem 
> and IBM. He also asked me whether he can include contact addresses to the 
> various parties that participate to FSG Accessibility.
> 
> I told him that among the open source projects and companies that participate 
> in the FSGA are the following:
> 
> Chair: Janina Sajka <janina at freestanddars.org>
> IBM
> Sun Microsystems
> Adobe
> GAP <gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org>
> KDE <kde-accessibility at kde.org>
> 
> I am sure I forgot some important company or project. I am also wondering 
> whether it makes sense to name the contact addresses of the international 
> accessibility teams (rather than only the German divisions). The publication 
> will also be available to end users, so I am not sure.
> 
> I am cc'ing the editor (Christian Hille) in this email.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> -- 
> Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards 
> accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of 
> http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/
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