Mozilla and FOSS Assistive Technology Meetup

Date and Location

September 28 to October 2nd, 2015, at the Mozilla Toronto Office.

Participants

• Joanmarie Diggs (Igalia)
• James Teh (NVAccess)
• Frédéric Wang (AcceSciTech Project)
• Mozilla Corporation accessibility team (Mozilla Corporation)
• Gijs Kruitbosch (Mozilla, Firefox Desktop)
• Sina Bahram (Prime Access Consulting)

Proposed Topics

• Multiprocess Firefox testing and triage, and planning for performance.
• Discussion and further implementation of MathML/Math MSAA/IAccessible2 interface in Gecko for Windows and NVDA.
• Discussion and further implementation of MathML/ATK+AT-SPI2 interface in Gecko for GNU/Linux and Orca.
• Discussion of new accessibility features to be built into Firefox.
• Demonstration of Web facing accessibility API prototype clients.

Discussion

Agenda formulation

• Mobile Ux Collab
• Math
  • Ux (wait for Sina)
  • background
  • API discussion
  • "What does NVDA do?" (High-level, so Joanie can implement similar behavior in Orca)
    • Interacting with expressions (commands and spoken result; let's make a table on the wiki like we did for MathML expressions)
    • Braille (also associated implications w.r.t. parsing/exposure of MathML)
• Desktop - notification experience
• Multi-process
  • Linux a11y polish
  • Windows status
• Text issues
  • great or dead
  • Jamie. Perf degradation over time.
  • Joanie + Jamie:
    • Are all their know bugs filed?
    • "Hack share" (tips and tricks each uses to work around known text bugs)
• Top secret phone project :)
• Eitan demo a11y dev tool work
• A11y of dev tools
• Web facing a11y API status
• Highlighting API?

Monday

• 9-10 planning
• 10-12 heads down
• After lunch TBD during lunch

Tuesday

• Yura, Eitan, phone feedback session

Wow super productive week, but lacking notes