Re: Oracle Meeting - community requests?
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:39:28 -0600
Correct. I heard that they just went and rebranded Red Hat and that
was it. Don't know if that is true though. Yes, they do now own Open
Solaris because they bought Sun but Solaris, as I think you alluded,
is not Linux. Even with Open Solaris, there is still a case for what
I mentioned. Gnome is the default desktop on Open Solaris as it is on
Linux instead of CDE so, Orca will make it accessible too.
Alex M
On 1/18/11, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26
<jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Centos is marketed by Oracle.
>
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> Hmm, which Linux distro is marketed by Oracle?
> I only know of OpenSolaris / Solaris based OS'es marketed by Oracle and
> they're not Linux based.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence
> Sent: 18. januar 2011 19:48
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> Hi, Stefik,
>
> Don't know if you are still taking suggestions but, I'd like to
> suggest that Oracle make sure their Ide is accessible on linux through
> Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 using Orca. I too think that oracle should take a
> more active role in accessibility in Linux as Sun Microsystems before
> them did. It is in their interest to do so since they market an
> Enterprise Linux distribution. It would be a great selling point to
> say that their operating system is 508 compliant across the board out
> of the box. Their coustomers would therefore not need to spend
> additional money on buying their employees expensive assistive
> technology since their oerating system would have such things built
> in. It is a good, sound business reason for them to fund improvements
> to things like Orca and Speakup and, I imagine, other things like
> Simon, Dasher and Ghok.
>
> Thank you for being willing to pass along our suggestions,
> Alex M
>
>
>
> On 1/18/11, Peter Quaiattini <Peter_Quaiattini@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Not that you need to hear another 'me too', however, I, for one wholly
> agree
>> with Jamal's comments.
>> Ever since Oracle changed away from Metalink to a JAVA-based presentation,
>> access to support pages has been very, very painful.
>>
>> Peter Quaiattini | Information Technology, OPS - Data Hosting Services |
>> peter_quaiattini@xxxxxx | (403) 319-6579
>> Canadian Pacific Driving the Digital Railway
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:02:13 -0500
>> From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: Oracle Meeting - community requests?
>>
>> My suggestions to convey to Oracle are as follows:
>>
>> * Update the Java Access Bridge so that it implements a more complete
>> and modern accessibility API on Windows, such as IAccessible2 and/or
>> UIA, and supports 64-bit as well as 32-bit Windows out of the box.
>>
>> * Implement a strong accessibility API in all non-Java-based GUI
>> applications, including Oracle database management products.
>>
>> * Ensure that all web pages on oracle.com, java.com, and other company
>> sites are compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
>> (AA conformance level), as published by the World Wide Web Consortium,
>> http://w3.org/wai
>>
>> * Renew the company accessibility team that was largely dismantled.
>> Developer support of the Orca screen reader was a key contribution by
>> Sun to the accessibility field. Completely voluntary efforts cannot
>> replace that support, so the future Viability of Orca under the
>> uppcoming Gnone 3 is in jeopardy unless circumstances change
>> significantly. I believe that Orca has the corporate strength to
>> support such an accessibility team, which will also aid the compliance
>> of its products with Section 508 procurement requirements of the U.S.
>> federal government.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jamal
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