Une alternative à JAWS
Posté le mercredi 16 janvier 2008
Catégorie Accessibilité · billet n° 34 · rss
Enfin! Pour qui a travaillé avec le lecteur d'écran JAWS, voici une nouvelle bien attendue: une alternative à ce lecteur d'écran un peu catastrophique. Espérons que cette alternative puisse donner accès aux aveugles au contenu des pages développées pour le web 2.0 ou la blogosphère, voire aux sites sociaux tels Facebook. Je donne ci-dessous la copie d'un message de Michael Curran, l'initiateur du projet: en effet, la fondation Mozilla a décidé de soutenir le projet. De bonnes nouvelles pour les aveugles!
The following was taken from the latest blog post on the NVDA blog at: http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/
Mozilla Foundation grant allows for employment of NVDA full-time developer. Thanks to the generocity and support of the Mozilla Foundation, NV Access has been able to hire James Teh as a full-time developer to work on NVDA. The Mozilla Foundation has taken a keen interest in NVDA as one of NVDA’s goals is to provide excellent support for Mozilla products, such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
The grant (which provides NV Access with US$80,000 over 2008) allows NV Access to employ James Teh (Jamie) full-time to work on improving and maintaining NVDA, with a major focus on Mozilla products. The grant will be also used to cover overheads for the running of NV Access, which a part from
general administration, also includes project promotion and the seeking of further funding.
NV Access and Mozilla worked together to draw up a list of grant goals for NVDA, which both organizations see as the most important things that should
be achieved to make the project a success. Although the grant will be reviewed before the end of this year, all the goals listed are to be completed with in a three year timeline. You can view the grant goals at: http://trac.nvda-project.org/wiki/
Jamie will hopefully be starting work in the next month or so, once all the admin has been organized. I for one am very excited to have Jamie join the project on a much more full-time basis, and I know he is also very excited to be able to put all his working time to open-source projects that hopefully can improve the lives of people in the community in some way.
On behalf of NV Access, and the other developers of NVDA I would like to thank the Mozilla Foundation for its support over the last year. Together we can make sure that blind users will always have both a free choice when it comes to access to applications on the Microsoft Windows Operating System, and also a choice to move forward with the rest of the community, to use free and open-source products (such as Firefox and Thunderbird).
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