GNOME supported by the Sovereign Tech Fund

[Posted November 10, 2023 by corbet]

The GNOME Foundation has announced the receipt of a €1 million award from the German Sovereign Tech Fund. The funding will support work on accessibility, privacy, hardware support, and more.

GNOME supported by the Sovereign Tech Fund

Posted Nov 11, 2023 6:34 UTC (Sat) by swilmet (subscriber, #98424) [Link] (1 responses)

The "This Week in GNOME" has more information:

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-121/

> Among other things, expect contributions to libsecret, oo7, Seahorse, systemd, Linux, Atspi, Orca, WebKitGTK, Shell, Mutter, Flatpak, AccountService, Settings, gdm, initial setup, Gtk, GLib, Online Accounts and language bindings.
> The team, known as “GNOME STF” started on the 2nd of October and already made exciting and impactful changes.

Explanation of the accessibility proposal

Posted Nov 11, 2023 16:43 UTC (Sat) by jasonjgw (subscriber, #52080) [Link]

The rationale for the proposed new accessibility architecture is introduced in this GNOME Foundation blog post, which includes a link to a more detailed document:
https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibili...
As one who relies on the current accessibility architecture, together with the Orca screen reader, to be able to use a free desktop environment at all, I welcome the funding and the proposal.