Accessibility Summit 2006
= Mozilla Accessibility Summit == October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA =Meeting location:IBM/Lotus building1 Rogers StreetRoom 3382Cambridge, MA== Participants and Presentations===== Introductions ===
Who | Organization | Location | Role | Attending Gnome summit as well? |
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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=== accessibilityWorks demo led by Cal Swart ===