Accessibility Summit 2006

October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA

Participants and Presentations

Introductions

Who	Organization	Location	Role	Attending Gnome summit as well?
Aaron Leventhal	IBM	Boston area	A11y module owner	Partially
Mark Pilgrim	IBM	Raleigh, NC	Chrome a11y owner	No
Peter Parente	IBM	Raleigh, NC	LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead	Yes
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
Nian Liu	Sun	Beijing, China	A11y peer, focus on Linux	Yes
Hakan Waara	Independent	Stockholmn, Sweden	OSX a11y	No
Alexander Surkov	Independent	Irkutsk, Russia	XForms 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
David Bolter (or colleague)	University of Toronto	Toronto, Canada	GOK developer	?
Steve Lee	oatsoft.org	Exeter, England	no project yet	Yes
Rich Caloggero	WGBH	Boston, MA	No declared project	No

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 guidelines
• Evaluation methods and tools

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

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