Before the CORBA->DBus rewrite, the AT-SPI and related projects (read: the GNOME Accessibility infrastructure) was really looking promising. The Sun Accessibil

Before the CORBA->DBus rewrite, the AT-SPI and related projects (read: the GNOME Accessibility infrastructure) was really looking promising. The Sun Accessibility office did great work to make GNOME a useable platform for people with disabilities and developers working on accessibility. The sudden death of the sun accessibility office combined with a big rewrite of the communication infrastructure pretty much set us back for some years. GNOME Accessibility is short on developer staff really actively working on the topic, and those which have managed to persist over the years are almost burnt out. When GNOME is apparently growing right now, it would be great to divert some of the new resources towards more accessibility development. When GNOME started to support accessibility back around 2003, it was leading the way. It was the first toolkit to do so on FLOSS platforms, and this was even before commercial vendors have started to include accessibility by default. These days, all commercial vendors of desktop and mobile OSes have accessibility built-in by default. Which shows that GNOME was on the right track starting early. It would be great if management could acknowledge that this is an important topic which needs more work to achieve excellent results.