[nvda] Re: Blog on NVDA web access grant work

Nice one Mick, congratulations to you all! 
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:53:29 +1000, "Michael Curran" <mick@xxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> 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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