Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee



Hi All:

I just want to add a little more to where things are right now. Here are a couple URLs where we've done a fair amount of formal work on the current and future goals for GNOME a11y:

  GNOME Boston 2006 Accessibility Summit:
  http://live.gnome.org/Boston2006/AccessibilitySummit
  (see also http://live.gnome.org/AccessibilityProjects)

  GNOME Boston 2007 Accessibility Summit:
  http://live.gnome.org/Boston2007/AccessibilitySummit

The Mozilla Foundation has also been very gracious in their support for work such as pyatspi, AT-SPI/DBus investigation, ARIA support in Orca, Collections work for AT-SPI, etc. It's all very positive stuff!

For the cross platform and inter-community notions, I think we also need to be cognizant of the fact that there are other active forums in place. For example, the Open A11y Group of the Linux Foundation (http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Accessibility) has served as a neutral place where members of the GNOME, KDE, and other communities have been coming together to discuss these kinds of things. The AT-SPI/DBus work being done by Rob Taylor and Mark Doffman, for example, will be discussed in the Open A11Y meeting tomorrow.

I think a steering committee is a fine idea and I'm happy to help (perhaps lead?) the group. For the committee to work best, I think it needs to include at least users and developers. The users are key in helping set the direction of what we need to focus on -- much of Orca's success, for example, is due to the fact that users are directly involved. Based upon the successes of the GNOME Boston Accessibility Summits, I also think that we need to keep focus on concrete, achievable tasks.

Will

PS - What I think we really really desperately need at the moment is a wordsmith/writer than can help us get the http://live.gnome.org/GAP pages in order.

Willie Walker wrote:
I'll happily raise my hand.  Thanks!  :-)

Will

Brian Cameron wrote:
The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors recognizes the importance
of Accessibility in the GNOME desktop.  To help foster a more
clear and positive vision, the board thinks it would be helpful
to form an Accessibility Steering Committee.

The purpose of this committee would be (in general terms)

- Help oversee a11y issues with the GNOME desktop
- Identify ways that the GNOME Foundation can better promote a11y
- Recommend actions to the GNOME Foundation board.
- Serve as a more clear a11y leadership team
- Help to standardize free a11y interfaces so that a11y solutions can
   be best shared across desktops.

I am wondering who in the GNOME a11y community would be interested
in being a part of this Committee.  Being involved would mean
having time to engage in discussions and related tasks.  It also
may make sense to meet for a phone conference on a regular schedule
(perhaps once or twice a month) if possible.

Once we have identified who would like to participate in such a
Committee, we can work out the details.  Please respond if you would
like to be involved with the GNOME community in this capacity, and
any ideas you have on how this committee could work best.

Thanks,

Brian

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