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Accessibility lab and assistive technologies for GNOME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kathleen Cahill)
Thu Oct 12 14:12:53 2000
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:16:48 -0400
To: atic@MIT.EDU, usability-team@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU
From: Kathleen Cahill <kcahill@MIT.EDU>
Cc: longpd@MIT.EDU, birdland@MIT.EDU
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>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:41:09 -0700
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>From: Frank Arnold <franka@SVPAL.ORG>
>Subject: SUN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ESTABLISH ACCESSIBILITY LAB
>To: EASI@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>
>PR: SUN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ESTABLISH ACCESSIBILITY LAB AND
>WORKS WITH GNOME FOUNDATION TO ESTABLISH FUND
>
>"Sun Microsystems today announced it will establish an
>Accessibility Technologies Lab to work on technology development
>for people with disabilities. The lab will work to develop an
>assistive technologies framework for utilities, device drivers,
>and voice interaction capabilities for the upcoming GNOME
>2.0--a free, open-source, and easy-to-use user environment. In
>addition, Sun also announced it will be working with the GNOME
>Foundation, an organization of open community developers and
>leading high-technology companies, to establish the GNOME
>Foundation accessibility development fund that will be used
>to provide grants for projects that provide research and that
>develop assistive technology for the GNOME user environment. This
>fund will be managed by the GNOME Foundation."
>
>COMPLETE STORY:
>http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-09-21-011-21-PR-CY-GN
>
>--
>Frank Arnold
>franka@svpal.org
>******************************************************
>"Earth is the cradle of humanity,
>but one cannot live in the cradle forever."
>Konstantin Tsilkovsky
>******************************************************
>
Kathy Cahill
MIT ATIC lab 11-103
253-5111
kcahill@mit.edu
