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Salut à tous, Je n'ai pas le temps de traduire. En résumé, il y a au moins une fondation pour aveugles qui s'intéresse aux logiciels libres :-) A+ -- Phil -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "Helen Keller Achievement Award" credits GNOME Accessibility Date: 11 Sep 2002 18:44:11 +0100 From: Bill Haneman <bill.haneman@Sun.COM>To: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org,gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org,desktop-devel-list@gnome.orgCC: fdawg@speechinfo.org Hi: I am delighted to relay the news that the "GNOME Accessibility Architecture" has been singled out in this year's "Helen Keller Achievement Award in Technology", one of the annual "Helen Keller Awards" presented by the American Foundation for the Blind. These awards recognize the "notable accomplishments of individuals who are role models or improve the quality of life for people who are blind or visually impaired." According to a pre-press release, the GNOME Accessibility architecture demonstrates a committment to accessible technology which "raises the bar for the computing industry" and "dramatically expands the options available" for technology consumers who are blind or visually impaired. Although the award is officially being awarded to Sun Microsystems for its "leadership in universal design", it is the work of GNOME Accessibility that is specifically called out by the award presenters. Pat Sueltz, Executive Vice President of Sun Services, will be on hand to accept the award, and I know that like all of us at Sun, she acknowledges that credit for this project lies not only with the executives who have remained committed to 'equal access', but with a distributed engineering effort including many organizations and individuals. I am sure that Pat will accept the award on behalf of all the people, many of them volunteers, who are working to make GNOME Accessibility a reality. Though the current AFB press release does not highlight the community aspects of the GNOME accessibility effort, we will endeavor to make this point in upcoming public announcements, drawing attention to the many individuals and organizations who share credit for making GNOME Accessibility what it is today, and who are striving to bring it from "framework" to "desktop reality" over the coming months. In particular we would like to thank the engineers in Ximian, RedHat, CodeFactory, BAUM, the University of Toronto, the Mozilla project, and the many individuals on the Release Team and Foundation who have supported our work; the intrepid individuals who have put both time and system-stability on the line to test and develop on an evolving platform; the members of kde-accessibility, Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group (fdawg), and mozilla-accessibility mailing lists, and many individuals and organizations involved in assistive technology development. Best regards, and congratulations and thanks to all. -Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: biglux-unsubscribe@savage.iut-blagnac.frFor additional commands, e-mail: biglux-help@savage.iut-blagnac.fr