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<tr><td> David Bolter (or colleague)</td><td>University of Toronto</td><td>Toronto, Canada</td><td>GOK developer</td><td>?</td></tr> | <tr><td> David Bolter (or colleague)</td><td>University of Toronto</td><td>Toronto, Canada</td><td>GOK developer</td><td>?</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>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> | |||
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Revision as of 18:01, 31 August 2006
Mozilla Accessibility Hackfest
October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA
Loose Agenda and Participants
Introductions
| Who | Organization | Location | Role | Attending Gnome summit as well? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Leventhal | IBM | Boston area | A11y module owner | Partially |
| Mark Pilgrim | IBM | Raleigh, NC | Chrome a11y owner | No |
| Peter Parente | IBM | Raleigh, NC | LSR(Linux Screen Reader) lead | Yes |
| Ginn Chen | Sun | Beijing, China | A11y peer, focus on Linux | Yes |
| William Walker | Sun | Nashua, NH | Orca lead | Yes |
| Bill Haneman | Sun | Dublin, Ireland | ATK/AT-SPI lead | Yes |
| Nian Liu | Sun | Beijing, China | A11y peer, focus on Linux | Yes |
| Hakan Waara | Independent | Stockholmn, Sweden | OSX a11y | No |
| Alexander Surkov | Independent | Irkutsk, Russia | XForms a11y | No |
| Shane Anderson | WebAIM | Logan, UT | XUL a11y guidelines & testing | Yes |
| Aaron Andersen | WebAIM | Logan, UT | XUL a11y guidelines & testing (one of the founders of XUL Planet) | Yes |
| David Bolter (or colleague) | University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | GOK developer | ? |
| Steve Lee | oatsoft.org | Exeter, England | no project yet | Yes |
| Rich Caloggero | WGBH | Boston, MA | No declared project | No |
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
HTML, DHTML & AJAX accessibility overview (Aaron Leventhal)
Testing overview
- Current testing procedures, Wayne Deangelo,
- LDTP demo and discussion
- How can we improve testing (automation, unit testing coverage, cooperation)
Architecture discussions:
- Cache
- Wrap classes
- Tree walking
- Hypertext accessible
- Events
XForms accessibility, demo and discussion led by Alexander Surkov
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