Friday October 28, 2005 
The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Peter Korn's Weblog The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Friday October 28, 2005 Graphic designers discovering GNOME accessibility...tigert has a nice blog entry about using Gnopernicus as an aid in graphic design. Reminds me of a conversation I had with one of the graphic designers at Berkeley Systems (the folks who brought you the Flying Toasters screen saver but who actually started with products for people with visual disabilities) - he used the inLARGE screen magnifier for Macintosh to help him create pixel-perfect images for screen savers... (2005-10-28 09:40:20.0) Permalink
Thursday October 27, 2005 Meaningful endorsement of PDF by RNIBPDF has long posed accessibility problems, especially for the blind and visually impaired. Adobe has been working hard on this over the last several years, and that work is clearly bearing fruit. This year the Royal National Institute for the Blind issued their annual report as a 70 page PDF document. Peter Abrahams has a nice article about it. (2005-10-27 16:11:16.0) Permalink
Wednesday October 26, 2005 GNOME Accessibility now 5 years oldLast week the GNOME Accessibility project had another birthday. The GNOME Accessibility effort was born 5 years ago at the Closing the Gap conference in in Minneapolis Minnesota. Last year I listed many of the accomplishments of the first 4 years of the GNOME Accessibility project. Here are some of the key things that happened in GNOME accessibility, or closely related to GNOME accessibility, this past year:
So Happy Birthday to GNOME Accessibility. It's been another fine year! (2005-10-26 19:57:36.0) Permalink |
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