[access-uk] Fw: [nvda] Blog on NVDA web access grant work

• From: "Ari" <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
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• Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:22:40 +0200

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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:53 AM
Subject: [nvda] Blog on NVDA web access grant work

Hi all,

As some of you may know, NV Access (the supporting organisation of NVDA) has received a grant from the Mozilla Foundation. This grant is to enable myself and Jamie (the other person working on the grant) to improve NVDA's support for viewing content in Mozilla Gecko (in such apps as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Chatzilla).

Many thanks go to Frank Heker and others of the Mozilla Foundation for providing the grant, and of course thanks also go to Vic and Aaron for helping us with getting the grant proposal written up properly.

I have started a blog for both NVDA and the web access grant work, and it can be found at:

http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/

I have made one post so far, which outlines the current problems with NVDA's support, and also covers what Jamie and I have been able to get done in the first two or so weeks of the grant.

Although this grant focuses soley on Mozilla Gecko, the code written will be modular enough, so that it wil be quite easy to also later improve support for other Web Browsers and Document readers (as NVDA must be able to work with more than one browser / reader if its to be a useful tool for the blindness community). Where possible, it will also be built as a stand-alone library so that other Assistive technologies can also make use of the code.

I plan to write blog entries to do with the web access grant probably once every two weeks or so.

More information about NVDA (the free and Open source screen reader for Windows) can be found at:

http://www.nvda-project.org/

More information about NV Access can be found at:
http://www.nvaccess.org/

If anyone has any questions or thoughts about the grant, please feel free to email myself, or submit comments to the blog entries.

Mick



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