[Fwd: GNOME Accessibility Summit videos & transcripts available]

[Fwd: GNOME Accessibility Summit videos & transcripts available]

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

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>Subject:      [Fwd: GNOME Accessibility Summit videos & transcripts
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: GNOME Accessibility Summit videos & transcripts available
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:50:42 -0800
>From: Peter Korn <korn@SUN.COM>
>Reply-To: Java Accessibility interest mailing
>list<JAVA-ACCESS@java.sun.com>
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>To: JAVA-ACCESS@JAVA.SUN.COM
>
>Greetings,
>
>Last month Sun Microsystems held a public meeting to discuss and plan
>strategies for building support for accessibility into the GNOME user
>environment.  The meeting was well attended, with many attendees dialing
>in
>via telephone.  Corporate representation included Compaq, HP, and IBM in
>addition to Sun Microsystems.  After an introduction and background
>portion
>covering GNOME, the GNOME Foundation, and the GNOME Accessibility fund,
>we
>discussed in detail strategies for making the GNOME user environment
>accessible.  Complete video footage and full text transcripts of this
>meeting
>are now available courtesy of AbleTV.net, who filmed the meeting.
>
>The GNOME Accessibility Summit slides are available in HTML format at:
>
>  http://www.sun.com/access/gnome/summit/
>
>Video footage of the GNOME Accessibility Summit in RealPlayer format is
>at:
>
>  http://www.abletv.net/events_gnome_101900.asp
>
>A complete text transcript of the GNOME Accessibility Summit is at:
>
>  http://www.abletv.net/events_gnome_101900_transcript.asp
>
>As always, the Sun GNOME Accessibility web site will contain pointers to
>the
>latest information from Sun on the topic, found at:
>
>  http://www.sun.com/access/gnome/
>
>
>In other news, results are in for the initial election of the board of
>directors of the GNOME Foundation.  For details, see the announcement
>at:
>
>  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/973804463/
>
>More information about the GNOME Foundation and its charter can be found
>at:
>
>  http://foundation.gnome.org/
>
>
>
>On behalf of the Sun Microsystems,
>
>Peter Korn
>Sun Microsystems Accessibility team
>access@sun.com
>http://www.sun.com/access
>
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Braille is the digital divide.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress    (202) 707-0535  <lras@loc.gov>
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