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<tr><th>Who</th><th>Organization</th><th>Location</th><th>Role</th><th>Attending Gnome summit as well?</th></tr>
<tr><th>Who</th><th>Organization</th><th>Location</th><th>Role</th><th>Attending Gnome summit as well?</th></tr>
   <tr><td>Aaron Leventhal</td><td>IBM</td><td>Boston area</td><td>A11y module owner</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Aaron Leventhal</td><td>IBM</td><td>Boston area</td><td>A11y module owner</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Frank Hecker</td><td>IBM</td><td>Mozilla Foundation</td><td>Mozilla Foundation Excutive Director</td><td>No</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Mark Pilgrim</td><td>IBM</td><td>Raleigh, NC</td><td>Chrome a11y owner</td><td>No</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Mark Pilgrim</td><td>IBM</td><td>Raleigh, NC</td><td>Chrome a11y owner</td><td>No</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Peter Parente</td><td>IBM</td><td>Chapel Hill, NC</td><td>LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Peter Parente</td><td>IBM</td><td>Chapel Hill, NC</td><td>LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead</td><td>Partially</td></tr>

Revision as of 20:16, 25 September 2006

Mozilla Accessibility Summit

October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA

Meeting location: IBM/Lotus building 1 Rogers Street Cambridge, MA

Participants and Presentations

Introductions

WhoOrganizationLocationRoleAttending Gnome summit as well?
Aaron LeventhalIBMBoston areaA11y module ownerPartially
Frank HeckerIBMMozilla FoundationMozilla Foundation Excutive DirectorNo
Mark PilgrimIBMRaleigh, NCChrome a11y ownerNo
Peter ParenteIBMChapel Hill, NCLSR(Linux Screen Reader) leadPartially
Ginn ChenSunBeijing, ChinaA11y peer, focus on LinuxYes
William WalkerSunNashua, NHOrca leadYes
Bill HanemanSunDublin, IrelandATK/AT-SPI leadYes
Hakan WaaraIndependentStockholmn, SwedenOSX a11yNo
Alexander SurkovIndependentIrkutsk, RussiaXForms a11yNo
Shane AndersonWebAIM, Utah State UniversityLogan, UTXUL a11y guidelines & testingYes
Aaron AndersenWebAIM, Utah State UniversityLogan, UTXUL a11y guidelines & testing (one of the founders of XUL Planet)Yes
David Bolter (or colleague)University of TorontoToronto, CanadaGOK developer?
Steve Leeoatsoft.orgExeter, Englandno project yetYes
Rich CaloggeroWGBHBoston, MANo declared projectNo
Peter KornSunOakland, CAUNIX AccessibilityYes
Mike PedersenSunSan Francisco, CAOrca Usability EngineerYes

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)

Plug-in accessibility (Java, PDF, Flash, etc.)

  • Keyboard navigation (into, out of, mnemonics)
  • Exposing the accessibility APIs from plugins

Testing overview

  • Current testing procedures, Wayne Deangelo,
  • LDTP demo and discussion
  • How can we improve testing (automation, unit testing coverage, cooperation)

Architecture discussions:

  • Cache
  • Wrap classes
  • Tree walking
  • Hypertext accessible
  • Events

XForms accessibility, demo and discussion led by Alexander Surkov

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
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