Accessibility/Meetings/2015September

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
  • next steps
    • orca and braille
• Desktop - notification experience
• Multi-process
  • Linux a11y polish
  • Windows status
• Text issues
  • great or dead
  • Joanie has embarrassing funny stories
  • Jamie. Perf degradation over time.
• Top secret phone project :)
• Eitan demo a11y dev tool work
• A11y of dev tools
• Web facing a11y API status

Monday

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

Tuesday

• Yura, Eitan, phone feedback session