Fwd: looking to pay xfce developers for accessibility

[Nick Schermer]

On 2012-10-24 14:49, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've managed to get the XFCE desktop mostly accessible with the Orca
> screen reader. But it needs a little more help.i will need some
> developers to work on this i think. I'm willing to pay for the work 
> that
> is done. I'm the executive director of the Accessible Computing
> Foundation located here.
>
> http;//www.theacf.co
>
> I'm also the maintainer of this distro built for blind and low vision
> people and people with other types of disabilities called Sonar and 
> it
> is located here
>
> http://www.sonar-project.org [1]
>
> i would love to have XFCE as the main desktop for Sonar because there 
> is
> no need to be using gnome and XFCE is much more light weight than 
> Gnome.
> Any help with this effort would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for 
> your
> time and help.

You don't need to pay for it (possibly donate at the Xfce foundation 
once Jannis finished the paperwork).

The thing is we need guidance/assistance/manpower for this. We simply 
don't have all the knowledge how to test (and really test, we can all 
start orca) and resolve the accessibility problems. Once someone is 
capable of running Xfce from GIT, test and provide fixes I'd be most 
grateful for give him/her access to the repositories to push the (small) 
changes.

Joanie already started with this and some parts were fixed, but this is 
rapidly getting outdated with interface changes: 
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/accessibility

Nick