GNOME Accessibility Team
Report for the Fourth Quarter 2011
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Note: This is currently where team members should list the stuff they would like to see included in the team report which we submit to the GNOME Marketing Team. It's not a report until it winds up here.
Summary
Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias and Joanmarie Diggs
The Accessibility Team actively worked on a number of fronts during the fourth quarter:
1. Development for GNOME 3.4
- Work continued with the UI design team to improve the user interface for magnifier user preferences.
- Algorithms were researched in order to provide compelling support for inverse video and brightness/contrast.
- Performance improvements were made in Orca, ATK, and AT-SPI2.
Orca's support for WebKitGtk content has been further enhanced.
2. Friends of GNOME Campaign
- The Marketing team, in partnership with our team, planned A Friends of GNOME campaign.
- The campaign launched in December with a goal to raise US $20,000 and hopefully make 2012 the "Year of Accessibility" for GNOME.
3. Events
Two members of our team attended the WebKitGtk hackfest where they focused on continued improvements in the area of Orca's support for content viewed in Epiphany.
- The next Accessibility hackfest is being planned: Many team members will return to Igalia in January to continue their collaboration on augmented and more consistently-implemented accessibility support.
- Several team members submitted talks for FOSDEM.