Accessibility Summit 2006
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Contents
- 1 Mozilla Accessibility Summit
- 2 October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA
- 2.1 Participants and Presentations
- 2.1.1 Introductions
- 2.1.2 Overview of where we are and where we're going
- 2.1.3 AT demos and technical discussion
- 2.1.4 Gnome/Mozilla overlap (led by Bill Haneman)
- 2.1.5 XUL accessibility overview (by Mark Pilgrim)
- 2.1.6 XUL Accessibility Guidelines & Evaluation (by Shane Anderson and Aaron Andersen)
- 2.1.7 HTML, DHTML & AJAX accessibility overview (Aaron Leventhal)
- 2.1.8 Testing overview
- 2.1.9 Architecture discussions:
- 2.1.10 OS X accessibility, led by Hwaara
- 2.1.11 Split into groups, work on individual problems (bring your debuggers)
- 2.1.12 accessibilityWorks demo led by Cal Swart
- 2.1 Participants and Presentations
Mozilla Accessibility Summit
October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA
Meeting location:
IBM/Lotus building
1 Rogers Street
Room 3382
Cambridge, MA
Participants and Presentations
Introductions
| Who | Organization | Location | Role | Attending Gnome summit as well? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Leventhal | IBM | Boston area | A11y module owner | Partially |
| Frank Hecker | Mozilla Foundation | Columbia, MD | Mozilla Foundation Excutive Director | No |
| Mark Pilgrim | IBM | Raleigh, NC | Chrome a11y owner | No |
| Peter Parente | IBM | Chapel Hill, NC | LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead | Partially |
| Ginn Chen | Sun | Beijing, China | A11y peer, focus on Linux | Yes |
| William Walker | Sun | Nashua, NH | Orca lead | Yes |
| Bill Haneman | Sun | Dublin, Ireland | ATK/AT-SPI lead | Yes |
| Hakan Waara | Independent | Stockholmn, Sweden | OSX a11y | No |
| Shane Anderson | WebAIM, Utah State University | Logan, UT | XUL a11y guidelines & testing | Yes |
| Aaron Andersen | WebAIM, Utah State University | Logan, UT | XUL a11y guidelines & testing (one of the founders of XUL Planet) | Yes |
| Steve Lee | oatsoft.org | Exeter, England | no project yet | Yes |
| Rich Caloggero | WGBH | Boston, MA | No declared project | No |
| Peter Korn | Sun | Oakland, CA | UNIX Accessibility | Yes |
| Mike Pedersen | Sun | San Francisco, CA | Orca Usability Engineer | Yes |
| Cal Swart | IBM | Hawthorne, NY | accessibilityWorks | No |
| Nagappan A | Novell | Bangalore, India | LDTP Lead | Partially |
| Zhaozhou Li | SUN | Beijing, China | Solaris Desktop | Yes |
Overview of where we are and where we're going
- Cross platform accessibility, API support
- Support for XUL, HTML, DHTML, upcoming XForms support
- Potential upcoming projects: SVG, MathML, Webforms
AT demos and technical discussion
- Orca (William Walker)
- LSR (Peter Parente)
- GOK (David Bolter)
Gnome/Mozilla overlap (led by Bill Haneman)
- E.g. what changes are needed in DHTML a11y or ATK in order to have them work well together?
XUL accessibility overview (by Mark Pilgrim)
- Brief discussion of non-Firefox apps and extension projects
XUL Accessibility Guidelines & Evaluation (by Shane Anderson and Aaron Andersen)
- Overview of XUL guidelines
- Evaluation methods and tools
HTML, DHTML & AJAX accessibility overview (Aaron Leventhal)
Testing overview
- Current testing procedures, Wayne Deangelo,
- LDTP demo and discussion, Nagappan A,
- How can we improve testing (automation, unit testing coverage, cooperation)
Architecture discussions:
- Cache
- Wrap classes
- Tree walking
- Hypertext accessible
- Events
OS X accessibility, led by Hwaara
Split into groups, work on individual problems (bring your debuggers)
- Linux group
- Mac group
- XForms group
- XUL/UI group (work on new XUL a11y guidelines skeleton)
- Testing group
