Fw: [wit-mail 32] Upcoming GNOME Accessibility develoment meeting Oct. 19

[WATANABE Takayuki <takayuki@la.shonan-it.ac.jp>]

渡辺です。

これ、転載してよいのかどうかわからなかったのですが、重要なので
転載します。

Forwarded by WATANABE Takayuki <takayuki@...>
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 From: "Hirotada Ueda 上田博唯　" <hiro-u@...>
 To: wit-mail@...
 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 08:52:20 +0900
 Subject: [wit-mail 32] Upcoming GNOME Accessibility develoment meeting Oct. 19
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上田@(日立電子)です。

語参考までに。

> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:32:24 -0700
> From: Peter Korn <korn@...>
> Organization: Sun Microsystems
> X-Accept-Language: en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: JA-PR@...
> Subject: Upcoming GNOME Accessibility develoment meeting Oct. 19
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sun Microsystems is convening a public meeting to discuss and plan strategies
> for building support for accessibility into the GNOME user environment.  This
> open meeting will be held in Minneapolis, MN, on Thursday October 19th, 2000
> in the Embassy Suites Hotel at 425 St. 7th St. (during the Closing the Gap
> conference also being held in Minneapolis).  The all-day meeting will begin
> at 10am.
>
> The goals of this meeting are:
>
>  1. To describe the GNOME user environment, the GNOME Foundation, and the
>     work that Sun Microsystems is undertaking to ensure that the
>     GNOME user environment is accessible to people with disabilities
>
>  2. To have a technical dialog with engineers in the GNOME, Unix, and
>     assistive technology communities on technical approaches to making
>     the GNOME user environment accessible
>
>  3. To plan the next steps for this work - both within the GNOME user
>     environment, for mainstream applications that run within the
>     GNOME user environment, and for the assistive technologies which will
>     provide access to the GNOME desktop and GNOME applications
>
> Hotel accommodations are available at the Embassy Suites Hotel (call
> 612/333-3111), as well as at many of the Closing the Gap conference hotels
> (see http://www.closingthegap.com/conf/index.html#10).  Please RSVP if you
> are going to attend in person to <access@...>.  For those unable to
> attend in person, Sun will provide a telephone dial-in number for remote
> participation.  We are also exploring options for Internet-based remote
> participation.  Please contact us at <access@...> if you would like to
> attend remotely.
>
>
> Background:
> ----------
>
> The GNOME project includes a desktop user environment: a graphical desktop
> user interface and a set of user-interface libraries.  GNOME is commonly part
> of Linux distributions (such as those from RedHat, TurboLinux, VA Linux,
> etc.) and it will be the standard graphical desktop for future Sun Solaris
> workstations and servers.  Also part of the GNOME project is GNOME Office - a
> set of office productivity tools (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.).  GNOME
> Office will be based on OpenOffice, which is the open source project through
> which Sun Microsystems is releasing the popular StarOffice productivity
> suite. For more information on GNOME, please visit http://www.gnome.org.  For
> more information on OpenOffice, please visit http://openoffice.org/.
>
> Sun Microsystems is part of the newly formed GNOME Foundation, and is
> formally taking the lead on making GNOME accessible to people with
> disabilities.  To this end, Sun is establishing an Accessibility Lab and is
> working with the GNOME Foundation to establish a fund to provide grants for
> the development of assistive technology for the GNOME user environment.  For
> the full text of the press release, please see:
> http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2000-09/sunflash.20000921.1.html
>
>
> Sun is hiring!
> -------------
>
> Sun is looking for engineers to staff the Accessibility Lab.  We presently
> have three open positions.  Each position is described at the following URLS:
>
>   Lead Accessibility engineer:
>     http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/scripts/showjob.cgi?REQ=509139
>
>   Accessibility engineer:
>     http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/scripts/showjob.cgi?REQ=509144
>     http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/scripts/showjob.cgi?REQ=509149
>
>
>
> On behalf of the Sun Microsystems,
>
> Peter Korn
> Sun Microsystems Accessibility team
> access@...
> http://www.sun.com/access
>