linux and accessibility applications

[Janina Sajka]

A few minor corrections:

1.)	There are several parts to the accessibility approach on GNOME. As far as I can tell, only one of them is proving problematic. Unfortunately for us, it's the part we care about, the Gnopernicus screen reader. 

2.)	The KDE community has adopted the GNOME approach, not a separate approach. In fact, one can correctly say that Apple's approach in its Spoken Interface for Macintosh is the same approach. All of these are object oriented approaches where accessibility support is provided by the SDKs application developers use to build applications. And, a separate layer of services provides a single interface to assistive technologies.


Tom and Esther Ward writes:
> Snip:
> "does that mean that
> > some have considered undertaking writing speech for X/Windows or Gnome?"
> 
>  Yes, there is the Gnome accessibility project which is developing
> accessible toolkits and apps for Gnome as well as a screen reader,
> magnifier, and other assistive technologies. However,  most of it is still
> unstable pre alfa software, and is limited in what you can do with it. It's
> not going to be a real solution for the blind for quite some time yet.
> Also KDE has started it's own accessibility project, but is even further
> behind in accessibility than gnome.
> Hth.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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