The new Mono UIA Status page
by sshaw
We just added a new site to our server. Our new site is very similar to the Mono team’s status pages. In fact its running the same software! The link you ask? Well, here it is the Mono UIA team’s status pages. This allows you to see the Mono UIA team’s progress with respect to porting the assemblies over to Linux.
We are currently working on fixing bugs, adding support for moonlight 2, and building out the client side. So, if your company writes software that takes advantage of UIA we’d love to hear from you!
Tags: .NET, a11y, accessibility, Linux, mono, moonlight, UIA
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New Mono UIA repos
by sshaw
For those that haven’t heard I’ve been working at Novell on a11y (accessibility). The area that I focus on is the build stuff. We finally have 3 major projects in OBS: Mono:UIA, Mono:UIA:Preview, and Mono:UIA:Bleeding. Mono:UIA is for our currently released version and is updated every release. Mono:UIA:Preview is currently tracking trunk until we branch for 1.0 and is updated every Friday. Mono:UIA:Bleeding is tracking trunk and is updated every night at 5 MST.
So, if you are interested in testing out our code here are some 1-clicks:
Mono:UIA – openSUSE 11.0
Mono:UIA – openSUSE 11.1
Mono:UIA:Preview – openSUSE 11.0
Mono:UIA:Preview – openSUSE 11.1
Mono:UIA:Bleeding – openSUSE 11.0
Mono:UIA:Bleeding – openSUSE 11.1
Tags: a11y, accessibility, build service, mono, opensuse, UIA
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Back @ Novell
by sshaw
Many of you know, but for those that don’t I was hired back on as a full time employee. Its been about a month since I started as the build guy for the mono-a11y team. For those that don’t know what a11y is, its accessibility. The 11 referring to the 11 letters between the letters a and y. The wiki link belong explains a lot about the mono-a11y stuff, but quickly the stuff we are doing is making all winforms stuff accessibility on Linux. One of the advantages, I think, is that we are helping out in other a11y project and improving accessibility in general on Linux. So if you have problems with the mono a11y packages, you know who to complain to. Not a whole lot to say right now, but here are some links.
Mono:Accessibility – This is our main wiki ‘landing’ page
openSUSE:Accessibility – This is the new ‘landing’ page for openSUSE accessibility stuff
mono-a11y packages – For those of you that are feeling brave. Currently there isn’t the olive package and a small problem with on of the other packages, so give it a day or two for it to be fixed, I hope 
Tags: a11y, mono, opensuse
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