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= Mozilla Accessibility Hackfest =
= Mozilla Accessibility Summit =
 
= October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA =
= October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA =
Meeting location:
IBM/Lotus building
1 Rogers Street
Room 3382
Cambridge, MA


== Participants and Presentations==
== Participants and Presentations==
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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>Mozilla Foundation</td><td>Columbia, MD</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>Raleigh, NC</td><td>LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead</td><td>Yes</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>Ginn Chen</td><td>Sun</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>A11y peer, focus on Linux</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Ginn Chen</td><td>Sun</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>A11y peer, focus on Linux</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>William Walker</td><td>Sun</td><td>Nashua, NH</td><td>Orca lead</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>William Walker</td><td>Sun</td><td>Nashua, NH</td><td>Orca lead</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Bill Haneman</td><td>Sun</td><td>Dublin, Ireland</td><td>ATK/AT-SPI lead</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Bill Haneman</td><td>Sun</td><td>Dublin, Ireland</td><td>ATK/AT-SPI lead</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Nian Liu</td><td>Sun</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>A11y peer, focus on Linux</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Hakan Waara</td><td>Independent</td><td>Stockholmn, Sweden</td><td>OSX a11y</td><td>No</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Hakan Waara</td><td>Independent</td><td>Stockholmn, Sweden</td><td>OSX a11y</td><td>No</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Alexander Surkov</td><td>Independent</td><td>Irkutsk, Russia</td><td>XForms a11y</td><td>No</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Shane Anderson</td><td>WebAIM, Utah State University</td><td>Logan, UT</td><td>XUL a11y guidelines &amp; testing</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Shane Anderson</td><td>WebAIM, Utah State University</td><td>Logan, UT</td><td>XUL a11y guidelines &amp; testing</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Aaron Andersen</td><td>WebAIM, Utah State University</td><td>Logan, UT</td><td>XUL a11y guidelines &amp; testing (one of the founders of XUL Planet)</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Aaron Andersen</td><td>WebAIM, Utah State University</td><td>Logan, UT</td><td>XUL a11y guidelines &amp; testing (one of the founders of XUL Planet)</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
  <tr><td> David Bolter (or colleague)</td><td>University of Toronto</td><td>Toronto, Canada</td><td>GOK developer</td><td>?</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>oatsoft.org</td><td>Exeter, England</td><td>no project yet</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>oatsoft.org</td><td>Exeter, England</td><td>no project yet</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Rich Caloggero</td><td>WGBH</td><td>Boston, MA</td><td>No declared project</td><td>No</td></tr>
   <tr><td>Rich Caloggero</td><td>WGBH</td><td>Boston, MA</td><td>No declared project</td><td>No</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Peter Korn</td><td>Sun</td><td>Oakland, CA</td><td>UNIX Accessibility</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Mike Pedersen</td><td>Sun</td><td>San Francisco, CA</td><td>Orca Usability Engineer</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Cal Swart</td><td>IBM</td><td>Hawthorne, NY</td><td>accessibilityWorks</td><td>No</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Nagappan A</td><td>Novell</td><td>Bangalore, India</td><td>LDTP Lead</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
  <tr><td>Zhaozhou Li</td><td>SUN</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>Solaris Desktop</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
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=== XUL accessibility overview (by Mark Pilgrim) ===
=== XUL accessibility overview (by Mark Pilgrim) ===
* Brief discussion of non-Firefox apps and extension projects
* 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) ===
=== HTML, DHTML & AJAX accessibility overview (Aaron Leventhal) ===


=== Testing overview ===
=== Testing overview ===
* Current testing procedures, Wayne Deangelo,
* Current testing procedures, Wayne Deangelo,
* LDTP demo and discussion
* LDTP demo and discussion, Nagappan A,
* How can we improve testing (automation, unit testing coverage, cooperation)
* How can we improve testing (automation, unit testing coverage, cooperation)


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* Events
* Events


=== XForms accessibility, demo and discussion led by Alexander Surkov ===
 


=== OS X accessibility, led by Hwaara ===  
=== OS X accessibility, led by Hwaara ===  
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*  XUL/UI group (work on new XUL a11y guidelines skeleton)
*  XUL/UI group (work on new XUL a11y guidelines skeleton)
*  Testing group
*  Testing group
=== accessibilityWorks demo led by Cal Swart ===
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