[DotGNU]Re: draft Disability Impact Statement for SEE

[tony stanco]

Yes. Exactly.

-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Bollow <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: draft Disability Impact Statement for SEE


>> >Sure... the most important area in this regard will be to desgin
>> >the SEE package in such a way that it will work well with
>> >assistive devices.  For working out the details, we'll need help
>> >from someone who has a good understanding of the needs of the
>> >various groups of disabled users.
>>
>> Their Director of Technology Research and Development wants to help us
and
>> will give us all the input we want. To facilitate that, each project
should
>> have a Disability Impact Statement explaining how the project can or
can't
>> help their community. This will help us sell to the government and also
get
>> grant funding.
>
>Do you mean something like this...  (in the case of SEE)
>
>
>Disability Impact Statement
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>The DotGNU Secure Execution Environment (SEE) is the part
>of the webservices system where client-side components of
>webservices are executed; this includes in particular the
>parts of the program which implement the user interface.
>Support for assistive devices for disabled users is provided by
>specialized SEE plugins.  Each of these plugins provides an API
>for one assistive device; the plugin can also be used without
>the assistive device in a simulation mode that allows
>(non-disabled) software developers to easily get a first
>impression of user experience of any given program for disabled
>users.
>
>
>?
>
>Greetings, Norbert.
>
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