Re: [orca-list] Scott Haeger waves Hi

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

It's great to have Scott join the Orca team!  I thank Scott for joining
the team and bringing the enthusiasm and experience with him that he
does.  I also thank the Mozilla Foundation and Aaron Leventhal from IBM
for their support of Scott on Orca.

Scott has come up to speed very quickly, and has already checked in some
very useful work (Thanks Scott!).  I look forward to Scott's future
contributions, including supporting ARIA and live regions.  This stuff
is going to be great and I'm excited.

Welcome Scott!

Will
(Orca Lead)

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 15:39 -0400, Scott Haeger wrote:
> Hi All.  I am recent addition to the Orca community.  I was previously 
> working as a software developer on the Linux Screen Reader (LSR) project 
> under a Mozilla grant.  IBM's recent decision to cease funding of LSR 
> has prompted my switch to the Orca project.  I am very excited to be 
> able to bring many of the best LSR ideas to Orca.  My efforts with LSR 
> focused on a Braille device interface and a Firefox extension module.  
> In Orca, I will first be focusing on adding features, such as link 
> previews, page summaries and bookmarks, to the Firefox script.  Feedback 
> on these features is certainly welcome.  Later, I will be working on 
> integration of ARIA support into Orca.  Finally, I hope to optimize many 
> parts of Orca using the Collection interface.
> 
> Throughout my career I have been an advocate for open source libraries 
> and end-user applications. I was one of the early adopters of scalable 
> vector graphics and wrote a human machine interface package based on 
> this technology. This effort propelled my interest in user interfaces 
> and usability in general. Interest in accessibility has been a natural 
> extension. I am an active reporter on Mozilla accessibility bugs and I 
> regularly assist Mozilla developers in accessibility related issues. I 
> received my Bachelor's degree in biology from the University of South 
> Florida, a Master's degree in microbiology from the University of Texas 
> at Austin and another Master's degree in computer science from the 
> University of South Florida.
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