Puedes ver este contenido en español en mi espacio personal del universo emergya, aquí

Joanmarie Diggs and I are very pleased to announce the creation of the orca-es-list, an official GNOME list for Spanish speaking users of the Orca screen reader.

Providing ways for non-English speakers to get more involved in the Orca community has been a long-time goal of the Orca team — and up until recently, an unachievable one. Now, thanks to the support of the Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos, the continued involvement of developers from Emergya, and the willingness of existing Spanish-speaking Orca users to contribute their time and knowledge, the team is able to support such as list.

To subscribe, fill out the form available here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-es-list

We are grateful to everyone who has made this new list possible, including GNOME for providing the infrastructure through which to host it. And we look forward to seeing you on orca-es-list!

This list will be moderated by Javier Dorado a great user and hacker of Orca.

Enjoy!

Announced in the official orca mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2011-February/msg00012.html

Special thanks for their support and work for the creation of this list to Juanje Ojeda and J. Félix Ontañón.

At the The 1st AEGIS International Conference, J. Félix Ontañón and I had the opportunity to give a presentation about Emergya’s work on the Guadalinfo Accessible project. This project, funded by the Consorcio Fernando de los Rios, is one of the first projects I became involved with since joining Emergya. And I’m very happy with, and proud of, the work of my colleagues.

Through Guadalinfo Accessible, I became acquainted with the variety of assistive technology solutions used by people who are blind or visually impaired, including Orca, the screen reader of the GNOME desktop. I also had the chance to meet a number of the GNOME Accessibility Team members and developers like Alejandro Piñeiro and Joaquim Rocha (from Igalia), Joanmarie Diggs (Orca maintainer) and Javier Dorado among others.

Thanks to this project, I have been contributing to the GNOME a11y community, especially Orca, in my spare-time and some of my work-time. I expect to stay hacking and pushing in that community for a long time! :-)

You can read the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/aegisproject/2-5392909

A really nice and interesting project to help bridge the digital divide.