Conference Presentations

FOSDEM 2008

• 'How accessible is Debian?' by Samuel Thibault

  • Recordings

  • Slides: odp, html

GNOME Boston Summit; Boston, U.S.A.; October 6, 2007

• Boston 2007 Accessibility Summit

GNOME Boston Summit; Boston, U.S.A.; October 8, 2006

• Boston 2006 Accessibility Summit

• Notes from Boston2006/AccessibilitySummit

GUADEC 2004; Kristiansand, Norway; June 28-30, 2004

• Talk: Making Accessibility Work in 2.8 (OpenOffice format)

GUAD3C 2002, Seville, Spain

• Thursday "keynote": GNOME Accessibility: Are We There Yet?

• Thursday April 5, 2002; 11:15 am: Making GNOME Applications Accessible

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Conference on Technology and Disabilities; 2002

• CSUN 2002 Presentation: The GNOME Accessibility APIs in Detail

Linux Accessibility Conference; Los Angeles, CA; March 21-22, 2001

Concurrent with California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Conference on Technology and Disability.

• Slightly abridged version of Gnome Accessibility presentation slides (gzipped tarfile)

GUADEC 2001; Copenhagen, Denmark; April 8, 2001

• Making GNOME Accessible (html)

• Same presentation as gzipped tarfile

Audio/Video

2008 - Two YouTube videos talking about Orca use in India:

• Collection of three Indian news reports about a seminar that Mr. Krishnakant Mane held for the blind in India late last year, using Orca and Ubuntu Linux.

• "True Vision" - a 10 minute promotional piece by ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited) in cooperation with the Government of Tamil Nadu, talking about their adoption and use of Ubuntu Linux and Orca to help the blind in India.

In May/June 2003, Marc Mulcahy of Sun Microsystems presented a four-part radio show on ACB Radio exploring the GNOME desktop with Gnopernicus.

1. GNOME v. Windows architecture, Introduction to Gnopernicus (9-May-2003)

2. GNOME Panel and Control Center (16-May-2003)

3. DECtalk, speech settings, Nautilus, and gedit (22-May-2003)

4. Mozilla, Balsa and Java applications (14-Jun-2003)