Re: [technology-pmc] Re: [albireo-dev] Albireo Project Status

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This note was intended for the Albireo project. Check the "To" list :-)

I should have explicitly listed the project name in the note, sorry
'bout that...

Wayne

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:16 -0500, Michael A Squillace wrote:
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> Wayne: 
> There is no plan to have this project be assumed by SWT at this time.
> That may not be the best fit for two reasons: 
> 1. The tools and components provided by ACTF are meant for a wide
> variety of environments and not just for GUI frameworks within these
> environments. For instance, the compliance validation engine can be
> used to validate Java TM Swing, Eclipse SWT, and static (and soon
> dynamic) web content. The componentry might also be expanded to handle
> non-GUI artifacts such as ODF documents. Hence, we would not want to
> be tied down to a particular framework inside a particular runtime
> (e.g. SWT in a JVM). If anything, we have considered the Tools project
> as a more likely home for ACTF. 
> 2. Being subsumed by SWT might give people the impression that we are
> strictly dealing with accessibility issues within the Eclipse
> framework itself. We are interested, however, in both the
> accessibility of the Eclipse framework and in that of content,
> plugins, and applications produced with the framework. 
> 
> Just my two cents...other committers might have other thoughts. 
> 
> --> Mike Squillace
> IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center
> Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) co-technical lead
> http://www.eclipse.org/actf
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> Internal: http://w3.ibm.com/able 
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> As a naive outsider looking in, it seems to me that the natural path
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> this project is for it to get assumed by the SWT project. Is this
> off-base? Is there any plan to take it in that direction? Timeframe?
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