[Accessibility] Introduction and brief explanation of UIA work Novell is doing

Pete Brunet brunet at us.ibm.com
Mon Jan 7 13:06:12 PST 2008


To all interested in IA2, I've added comments to all but 112 so please =

review and add you own comments.

http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D112
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D113
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D114
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D115
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D116
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D117
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D118

Pete Brunet
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IBM Accessibility Architecture and Development
11501 Burnet Road, MS 9022E004, Austin, TX 78758
Voice: (512) 838-4594, Cell: (512) 689-4155
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Calvin Gaisford <cgaisford at novell.com> =

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01/04/2008 04:35 PM

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[Accessibility] Introduction and brief explanation of UIA work  Novell is =

doing






I realize I've already introduced myself in the conference calls but I =

thought I would send an email to the list introducing myself and the =

work I'll be involved with.

My name is Calvin Gaisford and I work at Novell on the Linux Desktop. =

I've recently become the engineering lead on a team at Novell that =

will be focused on accessibility for the Linux Desktop.  You may have =

seen that recently Microsoft and Novell announced a collaboration to =

bring an implementation of the UIA spec to Linux.  Part of our work =

will be dedicated to this and bring accessibility to the Windows Forms =

implementation on Mono and the Moonlight project.  Our team will also =

be dedicated to working with this group and others on furthering the =

accessibility efforts on Linux.

I have put up a brief outline of the project and a very rough outline =

of a schedule here: =

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/UIA_on_Linux
I hope to have more information on the work we are doing but I hope =

that gives you an idea of what it's about (you might also note that we =

are looking for a11y engineers!)

Also, in several of the meetings that I've had with Microsoft, there =

have been a handful of issues discussed on the current IAccessible2 =

spec.  I'm not sure the best way to start a discussion on the issues =

but I wanted to raise the issues with the group.  I read in a previous =

post that the correct protocol to follow was to file bugs in bugzilla =

and allow the discussion of the issues to go on there.  That being the =

case, I went ahead and opened the following bugs:

http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D112
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D113
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D114
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D115
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D116
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D117
http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D118

I'm excited to be a part of this important work and hope that this new =

team and myself can be of help to all of the great work everyone here =

is already doing.  I've signed up to attend the ATIA and CSUN =

conferences and hope to meet a lot of you there.

Thanks!

----
Calvin Gaisford
Software Engineer Consultant
cgaisford at novell.com

Novell, Inc.
SUSE=AE Linux Enterprise 10
Your Linux is ready
http://www.novell.com/linux


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