Articles

• Orca accessibility app makes a whale of an impact, Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, April 07, 2008
• Orca -- Take the Killer Whale for a Ride, Willie Walker, Linux Journal, March 2008
• Make Your Application Accessible with Accerciser, Eitan Isaacson, Linux Journal, March 2008
• GNOME 2.22 focuses on utilities and standard applications, Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, March 17, 2008
• GNOME focuses on accessibility -- with a little help from Mozilla and others, Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, February 27, 2008
• Python Powered Accessibility, Steve Lee, Python Magazine, December 2008
• Historical reference: ATK Implementation Proposal Draft 0.5 - early implementation proposal for ATK.

Talks

GNOME.Asia; October 18-19, 2008

• GNOME Accessibility Overview
• Orca: Screen Reading and Magnification for GNOME

GNOME Boston; October 11-13, 2008

• Agenda, notes

FOSDEM 2008

• "How accessible is Debian?" by Samuel Thibault ( audio, odp, html

GNOME Boston; October 6-8, 2007

• Agenda and notes

GNOME Boston; October 7-9, 2006

• Agenda and notes

GUADEC Kristiansand, Norway; 2004

• Making Accessibility Work in 2.8

GUAD3C, Seville, Spain; 2002

• GNOME Accessibility: Are We There Yet?
• Making GNOME Applications Accessible

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

• The GNOME Accessibility APIs in Detail

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

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

GUADEC, Copenhagen, Denmark; April 8, 2001

• Making GNOME Accessible [html]
• same presentation as gzipped tarfile

GNOME Accessibility Summit; October 19, 2000

• Slides
• Meeting transcript courtesy AbleTV.net
• Meeting webcast courtesy AbleTV.net

Audio/Video

Orca Use in India

• Collection of three Indian news reports about a seminar that Mr. Krishnakant Mane held for the blind in India late 2007, 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.

ACB Radio

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

• GNOME v. Windows architecture, Introduction to Gnopernicus (9-May-2003)
• GNOME Panel and Control Center (16-May-2003)
• DECtalk, speech settings, Nautilus, and gedit (22-May-2003)
• Mozilla, Balsa and Java applications (14-Jun-2003)