Minutes for Accessibility IRC Meeting of May 27th, 2010

Meeting Log

Peter Korn updated the information about it.
Abstract submission deadline has been extended again, to May 28
We're hoping to have a significant GNOME presence there
We are also looking into holding a GNOME Accessibility Hackfest, ala CSUN
We have secured space for a hackfest
Some dates proposals:
- Monday & Tuesday for the hackfest (University is closed Sunday and Saturday afternoon)
- Conference sessions Thursday & Friday
Peter Korn created a live.gnome.org page to coordinate it: aegis hackfest
- Encourage people to clean/complete it
Trying to list people assisting there:
- ATRC guys
- Some igalian guys (1-2) will try to be there
- Joanmarie Diggs
- Peter Korn
- AEGIS hackers
- The list will be refined in the following months
Peter Korn ask is there are something missing before talk with Stormy and the Foundation about funding

Steve Lee explained the current status, although nothing really new since previous meeting.
In the mailing lists they are planning a new meeting, not schedule yet
Steve Lee was asked to present a paper at AEGIS

Brief comment about metabug created by Javier Jardón, in order to track apps that would require changes due the new at-spi2 and pyatspi2
The idea is that the maintainers of the different apps use this to track it.

As usually, reviewing items on http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GNOME3
Orca regression tests with at-spi2
- joanie and mgorse couldn't test it lately
- joanie mentions that this task should prioritized
OpenTTS
- It is proposed as a external dependency, API ask about current status
- TheMuso is cleaning the current repository, and hopes to have a first release next week
- Steve Holmes has implemented a initial support in Orca for OpenTTS
- This item on http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GNOME3 should be updated
JAW
- KeWang is working on that.
- Problem with a bug
- Joanie and KeWang started to talk about it