From: Simon Bates (simon.bates@utoronto.ca)
Date: 05/26/03
We are very pleased to announce that GOK (http://www.gok.ca) has been
awarded first place in the Accessibility category at the first Trophées
du Libre International Free Software Competition. The awards ceremony
was held in Soissons, France on 23 May 2003.
For more information on the competition please visit:
http://www.tropheesdulibre.org
Thank you to all those who have worked on the GNOME Accessibility Project (GAP) which makes GOK possible. Thank you also to everyone who continues to work towards making a free accessible desktop. Thank you!
For more information on GAP please visit:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has participated in the development of GOK:
Main Programmers
(in alphabetical order)
Simon Bates <simon.bates@utoronto.ca>
David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca>
Bill Haneman <bill.haneman@sun.com>
Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
Direction
Jutta Treviranus
Contributors
Calum Benson
Abel Cheung
Bruce Etheridge
Peter Korn
Duff McCourt
Michael Meeks
Christian Meyer
Marc Mulcahy
Christian Neumair
Padraig O'Briain
Laszlo Peter
Linda Petty
Christian Rose
Pablo Saratxaga
Yuriy Syrota
Laurel Williams
Cynick Young
The GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK) is a dynamic on-screen keyboard for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It features Direct Selection, Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning access methods and includes word completion.
GOK includes an alphanumeric keyboard and a keyboard for launching applications. Keyboards are specified in XML enabling existing keyboards to be modified and new keyboards to be created. The access methods are also specified in XML providing the ability to modify existing access methods and create new ones.
GOK is not limited to presenting keyboards that have been designed by hand and is able to dynamically create keyboards so that it can adapt to the user's current situation. GOK is able to redisplay components of the user interfaces of running applications directly within GOK as keyboards. This provides efficient access to elements of the user interface, removing the need to navigate the interface indirectly though keyboard accelerators. GOK supports the redisplay of application menus and toolbars. GOK contains a window activator keyboard that lists the current windows on the desktop and provides the ability to switch between them.
Users have the option of setting key width, height, and spacing as well as visual and auditory feedback on highlighting and selection.
For more information on GOK please visit:
Best wishes,
The GOK Team.
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