Accessibility Summit 2006

2006-10-08T13:39:26Z

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= Mozilla Accessibility Summit =

= October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA =

Meeting location:

IBM/Lotus building

1 Rogers Street

Room 3382

Cambridge, MA

== Participants and Presentations==

=== Introductions ===
<table>
<tr><th>Who</th><th>Organization</th><th>Location</th><th>Role</th><th>Attending Gnome summit as well?</th></tr>
<tr><td>Aaron Leventhal</td><td>IBM</td><td>Boston area</td><td>A11y module owner</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
<tr><td>Frank Hecker</td><td>Mozilla Foundation</td><td>Columbia, MD</td><td>Mozilla Foundation Excutive Director</td><td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mark Pilgrim</td><td>IBM</td><td>Raleigh, NC</td><td>Chrome a11y owner</td><td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Peter Parente</td><td>IBM</td><td>Chapel Hill, NC</td><td>LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ginn Chen</td><td>Sun</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>A11y peer, focus on Linux</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>William Walker</td><td>Sun</td><td>Nashua, NH</td><td>Orca lead</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bill Haneman</td><td>Sun</td><td>Dublin, Ireland</td><td>ATK/AT-SPI lead</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hakan Waara</td><td>Independent</td><td>Stockholmn, Sweden</td><td>OSX a11y</td><td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shane Anderson</td><td>WebAIM, Utah State University</td><td>Logan, UT</td><td>XUL a11y guidelines & testing</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Aaron Andersen</td><td>WebAIM, Utah State University</td><td>Logan, UT</td><td>XUL a11y guidelines & testing (one of the founders of XUL Planet)</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>oatsoft.org</td><td>Exeter, England</td><td>no project yet</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rich Caloggero</td><td>WGBH</td><td>Boston, MA</td><td>No declared project</td><td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Peter Korn</td><td>Sun</td><td>Oakland, CA</td><td>UNIX Accessibility</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mike Pedersen</td><td>Sun</td><td>San Francisco, CA</td><td>Orca Usability Engineer</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cal Swart</td><td>IBM</td><td>Hawthorne, NY</td><td>accessibilityWorks</td><td>No</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nagappan A</td><td>Novell</td><td>Bangalore, India</td><td>LDTP Lead</td><td>Partially</td></tr>
<tr><td>Zhaozhou Li</td><td>SUN</td><td>Beijing, China</td><td>Solaris Desktop</td><td>Yes</td></tr>

</table>

=== 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) ===

=== Plug-in accessibility (Java, PDF, Flash, etc.) ===
* Keyboard navigation (into, out of, mnemonics)
* Exposing the accessibility APIs from plugins

=== 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 ===

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