[Hamara-devel] great news for accessibility

Krishnakant krmane at openmailbox.org
Mon Mar 7 04:53:42 GMT 2016


This is wonderful.
I see no reason why Hamara can't be used by visually disabled people, 
now that Mate is working so well.
When the Gnome release work starts, our developers from DFF will be very 
active as the work will start from beginning.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Monday 07 March 2016 10:21 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Mate is already in debian. You'll just need theme customizations.
>
> On 2016, മാർച്ച് 7 10:18:47 AM IST, Krishnakant <krmane at openmailbox.org> 
> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>     I have spoken with the orca devs and it seems Gnome 3.18 has off late
>     got most of the accessibility bugs fixed.
>     But what is more exciting is that I personally tested the Mate desktop
>     and it being an environment consuming low memory, was amazed at the
>     level of accessibility improvements.
>     In fact in some cases it was even better than Gnome.
>     My question is, are we also going to plan a Mate release any time.
>     Since it will be some thing right from scratch, our organization can put
>     in some resources along with Gnome release (which we have already
>     planned to start working on when we release a stable versio of Sugam ).
>     All in all accessibility seems to have taken a serious pickup these last
>     few weeks.
>     happy hacking.
>     Krishnakant.
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