Mozilla Accessibility Summit
Proposed Date
Friday, October 5th, 2007 for the main day, with most people attending the Gnome accessibility days on October 6-7, and spill over groups into any other days before or after as necessary.
Aaron is available the week before and after, for any 1 on 1 work. Others may be as well -- find your colleagues on email or IRC and set up any additional work time that would be helpful for you.
Topics
This group will focus on:
- Open source AT compatibility for Mozilla
- XUL accessibility and API support
- HTML accessibility and API support
- ARIA widget accessibility and API support
- ARIA live region accessibility and API support
- Rich text editing and API support
- QA procedures and solidifying a11y going forward
External technology demos and discussions:
- Jambu onscreen keyboard (Steve Lee)
- Orca (Willie Walker, Joanie Diggs, Scott Haeger, Eitan Isaacson)
- Fire Vox (Charles Chen)
- Dojo toolkit (David Bolter)
- Chatzilla live region support (Gijs Kruitbosch)
- NVDA (Mick Curran)
- Accerciser (Eitan Isaacson)
Location
WGBH (The inventors of closed captioning and audio description!)
10 Guest Street, Boston, MA
Room: Griffiths (7 West) conference room
http://www.wgbh.org/support/member_benefits/directions
We will probably need to meet in one of the hotel lobbies the morning of, so we can go in an organized fashion and get signed in.
They have catering services so we need to think about having lunch catered.
Attendees
Attendee list closed to further additions without permission from Aaron (we simply don't have a lot of room, so folks working on difficult technical problems only please).
Who |
Organization |
Location |
Role |
Arriving |
Leaving |
Attending GNOME Summit as well |
Need flight/hotel? |
Aaron Leventhal |
IBM |
Boston |
Mozilla Accessibility Module owner |
October 1 |
October 10 |
Yes |
No |
Joanmarie Diggs |
Carroll Center for the Blind |
Nashua, NH |
Orca developer |
October 5 |
October 7 |
Yes |
No |
Willie Walker |
Sun |
Nashua, NH |
Orca lead |
October 5 |
October 7 |
Yes |
No |
Scott Haeger |
Mozilla Foundation grantee |
Clearwater, FL |
Orca developer |
October 5 10:45am |
October 7 4:50pm |
Yes |
Yes |
Eitan Isaacson |
Mozilla Foundation grantee |
Seattle, WA |
Orca and Accerciser developer |
October 5 |
October 8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Steve Lee |
Mozilla Foundation grantee |
Exeter, England |
Jambu OSK developer |
3rd late |
8th late |
Yes |
Yes |
Gijs Kruitbosch |
Mozilla Foundation grantee |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Chatzilla accessibility |
October 3, 10.10am |
October 7, 10pm |
? |
Yes |
Mick Curran |
NV Access |
Melbourne, Australia |
NVDA developer (open source screen reader for Windows) |
October 4, 6 pm |
October 8, 5 pm |
Yes |
Yes |
Charles Chen |
Mountain View, CA |
Fire Vox developer |
October 5 |
October 7 (early) |
No |
No |
|
Tim Keenan |
Mozilla Corp |
San Diego |
QA |
October 4-late |
October 8 |
no |
Yes |
Ariel Rios |
Mozilla Foundation grantee |
Austin, TX |
Gnome a11y infrastructure |
Oct 4 evening |
Oct 6 evening |
No |
Yes |
Marco Zehe |
Individual volunteer |
Hamburg, Germany |
Volunteer A11Y tester |
October 4 |
October 7 |
? |
Yes |
Evan Yan |
Sun |
Beijing, China |
Mozilla a11y developer |
October 4 |
October 9 |
Yes |
No |
Jorge Torres |
Komodo OpenLab |
Toronto, Canada |
Voice input developer |
October 4 |
October 7 |
Yes |
Yes |
Patrick Gu |
Sun |
Beijing, China |
Automation QE |
October 4 |
October 9 |
Yes |
No |
Janina Sajka |
Linux Foundation |
D.C. Area |
Open a11y standards |
October 4 |
October 6 |
Yes |
No |
Social Events
Ideas here:
- Grill party in Aaron's backyard
- Birthday party for Gijs
Beer tasting at Cambridge Brewing Co