The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GNOME</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
GUADEC Core<br />
Blind Access Using the Orca Screen Reader<br />
Orca, currently under development, is a scriptable screen<br />
reader to help provide low vision and blind access to the<br />
<strong>GNOME</strong> desktop. In this talk, the lead of the Orca project will<br />
provide a demonstration of Orca in action as well as an<br />
overview of the Orca architecture, describing how one can<br />
contribute custom application scripts to the Orca project.<br />
Willie Walker Walker<br />
Willie Walker is the lead of the Orca screen reader project and has been<br />
working on accessibility for a little over a decade and a half. He spent his<br />
earlier years on accessibility developing the AccessX/XKB functionality<br />
for X Windows, and went on to develop the ICE X Rendezvous<br />
Mechanism and Remote Access Protocol (RAP). RAP never really got off<br />
the ground, but it helped lay the foundation for the service-based<br />
accessibility models in use today. Willie then joined Sun Microsystems to<br />
help create the Java Accessibility API, and then led a small team in Sun<br />
Labs to create open source speech synthesis and recognition systems (FreeTTS, and Sphinx-4).<br />
Building an E-mail Client for Mobile Devices<br />
This talk presents programming techniques used while<br />
building an e-mail client for mobile devices.<br />
Philip Van Van Hoof<br />
Philip is a Belgian consultant software engineer employed at Cronos/X-<br />
Tend. Now he is doing a project at Newtec Cy, which involves the<br />
development of satellite communication infrastructure. He also did a<br />
project on developing and designing a scientific embedded<br />
microscopy/robotic product. This he did at Maia Scientific.<br />
He is the author of the tinymail E-mail framework. This framework is<br />
used by Nokia, who is developing a new E-mail client for their N770<br />
device. He also is the maintainer of a few other free software projects,<br />
and he contributes to some free software projects as well.<br />
He is fond of using modern development techniques, such as design patterns and agile<br />
development models. He used these techniques to design the tinymail framework.<br />
52 June 24–30, <strong>2006</strong> • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain)<br />
Wed 28 16:00<br />
3. Museu Balaguer<br />
Catwalk Talk<br />
Wed 28 16:00<br />
4. Sala de Juntes<br />
Tangle Talk
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