Looking for October presenters for PLUGdev

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Mon Oct 4 10:19:57 MST 2010


Based on this original thread, I thought they were looking for
presentations for the plug-dev portion.  I thought that would be more
developer oriented.  I have some things I would like to present to
more generalist like regular plug meeting on second Thursdays.

In particular, I would like to make some presentations on blind
accessibility for Linux.  I see it in at least 3 areas now.  Speakup
kernel modules for the text console, emacspeak for emacs' internal
environment and Orca, a screen reader for the gnome desktop.  I could
probably run this over 3 different meetings so other presenters can
share some of the time and we don't get drowned in accessibility
issues all at once.

I could see spending some time in the developer sessions going over
web accessibility and what developers can do to make this whole
problem a lot easier to deal with.  Also another discussion could be
had on how to make toolkits and similar programs work with the
accessibility API (ATK and at-spi) in gnome.  In either case, I would
be ready and available to do some of these after the first of the year
(2011).


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