A11y hackfest title

Background

On October 6-8 the AEGIS project is hosting its 1st International Conference of AEGIS & 2nd Pan-European Workshop/User Forum in Seville, Spain. We expect to have a significant GNOME accessibility presence at the event, including a booth, and also a GNOME accessibility hackfest (similar to the hackfest we had at CSUN.

Spain is a world center for GNOME use, with two regions - Extremadura and Andalusia - using GNOME for all K-12 students in all public schools. In particular, Orca is the screen reader of choice in Extremadura and Andalusia... Andalusia is also the source of three GNOME a11y grants as part of the GUADALINFO ACCESSIBLE PROJECT. And Seville is in Andalusia.

Are you a maintainer of one of GNOME’s assistive technology modules? Are you developing an on screen keyboard? An alternative means for text input? A magnifier? Some trippy head-tracking app? Voice control? Switch access? Something new and exciting for cognitive disabilities? Are you hacking on new features for Orca? Are you working to provide users with disabilities unfettered access to GNOME? Are you working on accessibility tests?

If the answer to any of the above is ‘yes’, we hope you will consider joining fellow GNOME a11y folks at the AEGIS conference this year to help promote GNOME and to hack with fellow AT developers.

Venue

See the venue page of the conference for full details. Also see the travel page of the conference for information on getting to Seville, to the venue, the conference hotels, etc.

University of Seville picture

Escuela de Ingenieros
Higher Technical School of Engineering
University of Sevilla
Camino de los descubrimientos s/n
Isla de La Cartuja, 41092 Seville
Spain
Tel: (+34) 954 48 61 00

Accommodations

Hotels

Hostels

Sponsors

We can get some sponsorship for the event from CENATIC. At 10th June they'll launch the call for sponsorship for Free Software events happening in Spain. Probably someone from GNOME Hispano can help with this. More info: CENATIC Facebook announce

Goals

  1. Identify, and begin implementation of, a community-wide regression testing solution for accessibility.
  2. Increase team-wide familiarity with all current and proposed GNOME accessibility modules.
  3. Create topic-oriented help content for GNOME accessibility features and tools.
  4. Assess the current accessibility of the just-released GNOME 2.32 and fix as many bugs as possible in preparation for GNOME 3.0
  5. Evangelize GNOME as an accessible platform to users and other attendees of the AEGIS Conference.

Pre-event Homework

  1. Have Yelp 3 (2.31.x) installed. Yelp 2.30 is OK.
  2. Read http://projectmallard.org/about/learn/index.html to get a head start

  3. If you are an AT module developer, come to Brian Nitz' testing session prepared to discuss (and ideally demonstrate) instances of accessibility problems you face and their consequences for your AT and its users.
  4. If you plan to attend the conference itself, be sure to register for the conference (instructions below)

Formal GNOME participation

  1. GNOME accessibility will be an exhibitor

  2. We have been invited to submit - for free - posters that will be up for the duration of the conference. Ideally we will have a poster for each of the main accessibility features of GNOME (e.g. one for Orca, one for Dasher). Also GNU/Linux distributions are welcome to submit posters describing the accessibility features provided in their distros

  3. GNOME Hackfest attendees who want to attend the conference programme itself should register for the conference as a student, for the student price of €53.19. Use "GNOME" as the "student ID"

Tentative Schedule

Details for the items below an be found on the Detailed Schedule page. If you are a point person, please fill in the details. Also see the AEGIS Conference schedule.

When

What

Where

Point person

Sunday 3 October

All day

Arrival

20:00

Dinner

TBD

Peter Korn

Monday 4 October

09:30

Hackfest Kickoff

Sala de Reuniones (3rd Floor), Escuela de Ingenieros

Alejandro Piñeiro and Joanmarie Diggs

11:00

Testing

Sala de Reuniones (3rd Floor), Escuela de Ingenieros

Brian Nitz

Afternoon

Module Updates and Demos

Sala de Reuniones (3rd Floor), Escuela de Ingenieros

Alejandro Piñeiro and Joanmarie Diggs

Tuesday 5 October

All-day

Documentation Day

Sala de Reuniones (3rd Floor), Escuela de Ingenieros

Shaun McCance

Evening

Beer Fest

Big Ben

Juanje Ojeda

Wednesday 6 October

09:30 - ??:??

Writing documentation and GNOME bug fixing

Sala de Reuniones (3rd Floor), Escuela de Ingenieros

Shaun McCance, Alejandro Piñeiro, and Joanmarie Diggs

09:00 - 12:30

AEGIS "User Forum" (in Spanish)

TBD

TBD

13:00 - 18:00

Pan-European Workshop

TBD

TBD

Late afternoon

Booth setup (opens on Thursday)

Showroom

Bryen

20:00

GNOME A11y Team Dinner

Hotel Tryp Macarena

Juanje Ojeda

Thursday 7 October

All day

Hacking and Discussion

TBD

Alejandro Piñeiro and Joanmarie Diggs

All day

Conference sessions

Various places

Each on their own

TBD

Outreach meeting

TBD

Bryen

13:00 - 14:00

Booth duty

Showroom

Bryen

17:30 - 20:00

Conference-hosted "standing dinner/buffet"

TBD

TBD

17:30 - 20:00

Booth duty

Showroom

Bryen

Friday 8 October

All day

Hacking and Discussion

TBD

Alejandro Piñeiro and Joanmarie Diggs

All day

Conference sessions

Various places

Each on their own

TBD

Outreach meeting

TBD

Bryen

13:00 - 14:00

Booth duty

Showroom

Bryen

Saturday 9 October

09:30 - 14:00

Hackfest Wrap-up

Sala de Reuniones (3rd Floor), Escuela de Ingenieros

Alejandro Piñeiro and Joanmarie Diggs

Attendees

(If you're planning on coming, you should be in this list - and not the "hope to attend" list.)

We will need to know everyone's projected air fare ASAP so we could propose a budget to the foundation board.

Name

Project

Roommate

Dates

Hotel

Fernando Herrera

dots

none

TBD

TBD

Peter Korn

AEGIS

none

Oct. 3-9 for sure, maybe more

Hotel Tryp Macarena

Joanmarie Diggs

Orca

none

Sept. 30 - Oct. 16

Hotel Tryp Macarena

Alan Lawrence

Dasher, AEGIS

Patrick

Oct. 3-9

Hotel Tryp Macarena

Patrick Welche

Dasher, AEGIS

Alan

Oct. 3-9

Hotel Tryp Macarena

Juanje Ojeda

Guadalinfo Accesible

none

Oct. 3-9

No

J. Félix Ontañón

Guadalinfo Accesible

none

Oct. 3-9

No

Alejandro Leiva

Guadalinfo Accesible, Orca

none

Oct. 3-9

No

Jan Buchal

Speech Dispatcher/FreeAT

none

Oct. 3-9

Barceló Renacimiento

Tomas Cerha

Speech Dispatcher/FreeAT

none

Oct. 3-9

Barceló Renacimiento

Hynek Hanke

Speech Dispatcher/FreeAT

none

Oct. 3-9

Barceló Renacimiento

Boris Dušek

Speech Dispatcher/FreeAT

none

Oct. 3-9

Barceló Renacimiento

Javier Hernández

Guadalinfo Accesible

none

Oct. 3-9

No

Brian Nitz

AEGIS

none

Oct. 3-9

Hotel Tryp Macarena

Joseph Scheuhammer

AEGIS/GNOME Shell Magnifier

Jan

Oct 3-9

Booked by foundation (Hotel Tryp Macarena)

Jan Richards

AEGIS

Joseph

Oct 3-9

Booked by foundation (Hotel Tryp Macarena)

Alejandro Piñeiro

Cally

Coruña (Spain)

Oct 3-9

TBD

Nischal E Rao

VEDICS

Bharat Joshi (India)

Oct 3-9

Booked by foundation

Bharat Joshi

VEDICS

Nischal E Rao (India)

Oct 3-9

Booked by foundation

Mario Sanchez

WebKitGTK+

Coruña (Spain)

Oct 3-9

TBD

Shaun McCance

Documentation

unknown

Oct. 3-9

Booked by foundation

Hope to attend

(If you would like to come, but are not sure if you will be able to, you should be in this list.)

As in the attendee list, we need a estimation of people going in order to propose a budget to the foundation. Apart for the "almost confirmed" attendee list, we also though that it would be fine to add a list of people that hope to attend to the hackfest:

Name

Project

Traveling From

Need Sponsorship?

Bryen Yunashko

GNOME-A11y Outreach

Chicago, USA

Yes

Flavio Percoco

MouseTrap and General A11Y

Como, Italy

Yes

Sharath M Puranik

VEDICS

Bangalore(India)

Yes

Suhas Kamath N

VEDICS

Bangalore(India)

Yes

Mike Gorse

AT-SPI

USA

maybe

Joseph Scheuhammer

GNOME Shell Magnifier

Toronto, Canada

Yes

Arky

Software-center Nautilus Accerciser dots Documentation

Trivandrum(India)

Yes (Not Funding, Can't attend)

Daniel García

Evince

Local

No

Alfonso de Cala

Guadalinex

Seville (Spain)

No

Li Yuan

at-spi

Beijing China

Yes

Ke Wang

at-spi(JAW)

Beijing China

Yes

Cesar Mauri

Enable Viacam

Tarragona (Spain)

No

Lorenzo Gil

Guadalinfo Accesible

Local

No

AEGIS Posters

If you or your organization is presenting a poster at the conference, add a description to the table below.

Title

Author(s)

Organization

Magnification in GNOME Shell

Joseph Scheuhammer, Jorge Silva, and Jan Richards

Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University

ARIA in the Fluid Infusion Component Set

Colin Clark, Justin Obara, Jess Mitchell, and Jan Richards

Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University

Visit to a Guadalinfo center

Mario Cámara, from the Fernando de los Rios Consortium, has offered an kind invitation to all attendees to the HackFest in Seville to visit one of their Guadalinfo centers to see how they try to make them accessible and to receive feedback from you.

If you will attend this visit, please tell them so in the Doodle poll link at the end of this email.

The visit will be held on Tuesday October 5th at 7pm in the centre located at Castilleja de la Cuesta, 5km from Seville.

We will provide paid transport from the Hackfest place to centre and back to Seville for up to 7-8 people. But more people will be able to attend it if the local attendees share their cars.

Exact details:

Departure time: around 6.40pm. Departure place: Hackfest area

Centre to be visited: Castilleja de la Cuesta, 5km from Seville. Address: C/ Principe de Asturias, nº42, inside historical building known as Hacienda Santa Barbara Google Streetview Beside Hotel Santa Ana/Cafeteria

End of the visit: around 8.30pm. Coming back to the Hotel Tryp macarena or where the beer fest will be held.

Doodle link:

http://doodle.com/em27d2h7vapkxu67

Accessibility/Hackfests/AEGIS2010 (last edited 2011-07-15 05:57:42 by JoanmarieDiggs)