Re: Oracle Meeting - community requests?
- From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:30:59 -0600
Hi Alex,
We're adding Linux/ORCA support next release into Sodbeans 2.0, which
will hopefully come out in July or so. We actually have a build
internally working on both Ubuntu and Vinux using Speech Dispatcher.
So, I don't know if Oracle officially supports that, but at least
NetBeans should work fine with it soon,
Stefik
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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>> -----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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