On Wednesday 29 November 2006 08:54, Peter Parente wrote:
> ==============
> * What is it ?
> ==============
>
> Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an extensible assistive
technology for people
> with disabilities. The design philosophy behind LSR is
to provide a core
> platform that enables the development of LSR extensions
for improving
> desktop application accessibility and usability and
shields extension
> developers from the intricacies of the desktop
accessibility architecture.
>
> The primary use of the LSR platform is to give people
with visual
> impairments access to the GNOME desktop and its
business applications (e.g.
> Firefox, OpenOffice, Eclipse) using speech, Braille,
and screen
> magnification. The extensions packaged with the LSR
core are intended to
> meet this end. However, LSR's rich support for
extensions can be used for a
> variety of other purposes such as supporting novel
input and output
> devices, improving accessibility for users with other
disabilities,
> enabling multi-modal access to the GNOME desktop, and
so forth.
>
> ==================
> * What's changed ?
> ==================
>
> The purpose of this release is to publicly announce the
change of license
> on the LSR code base from the Common Public License to
the New Berkeley
> Software Distribution License (BSD) official and
public. The BSD license is
> GPL-compatible but has no copyleft restriction. This
change helps LSR
> better fit into the GNOME ecosystem and allows other
projects to build on
> it with few restrictions.
This is great news! I'm cc'ing kde-accessibility. Although
KDE cannot make
use of this (yet), it's nice to have choices for the future.
--
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
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