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[actf-dev] RE: [technology-pmc] ACTF Community Development: Status & Response to Wayne Beaton
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> As a suggestion on
this particular topic, it seems to me that one possible area of potential
adoption are the other open source communities > that have a need to
create accessible user interfaces. Places like Linux and Mozilla immediately
come to mind.
Good point. In fact, as
a totally blind developer who just tried to use Firebug and found it completely
inaccessible with a screen reader, this might be a nice place to look.
Any introductions you can facilitate would be welcome.
> On a somewhat related
note, we at the Eclipse Foundation quite regularly get asked if the Eclipse
IDE itself is certified as accessible. > Regrettably, our answer at
this time is “we think so, but it is not certified as such”. Is there
any opportunity to use ACTF’s tools to certify > Eclipse itself? Even
better, could this be done in a way that leverages the participation of
the community to expose more people to those tools?
Of course, but that would
depend upon against what criteria you were basing certification (e.g. W3C
ATAG 1.0, US Sec. 508, etc.). I would love to pursue this topic with the
community - as I said, I have both a professional and personal stake in
this work. How would we initiate such an endeavor?
--> Mike Squillace
IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center
Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) co-technical lead
http://www.eclipse.org/actf
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"Mike Milinkovich"
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| RE: [technology-pmc] ACTF Community
Development: Status & Response to
Wayne Beaton |
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As a suggestion on this
particular topic, it seems to me that one possible area of potential adoption
are the other open source communities that have a need to create accessible
user interfaces. Places like Linux and Mozilla immediately come to mind.
Could I help with some
introductions into those communities?
On a somewhat related
note, we at the Eclipse Foundation quite regularly get asked if the Eclipse
IDE itself is certified as accessible. Regrettably, our answer at this
time is “we think so, but it is not certified as such”. Is there any
opportunity to use ACTF’s tools to certify Eclipse itself? Even better,
could this be done in a way that leverages the participation of the community
to expose more people to those tools?
Question: How do you reach out to people?
Are there forums that you can participate in, conferences that you should
attend to meet these people?
Until now, we have used conferences and email
listservs as ways of reaching out. However, to be perfectly honest, we
have not been proactive. So we sincerely appreciate your prodding.
Last week the project committers met and determined
that there were a few key conferences that we should be participating in
including ASSETS, CSUN and possibly RESNA. We are conducting a 1-day workshop
at ASSETS in October. We recently attended the Eclipse conference. However,
only a few people attended the session put on by Kentarou and Mike Squillace.
We are continue to look at other conferences and forums and welcome your
suggestions.
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