Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

[David Bolter <dtb gnome org>]

Steve Lee wrote:
> > 3) Brainstorming / developing improvements that push the envelope in
> > the user experience. It's great to have a set of familiar assistive
> > technologies for people to use today when migrating to GNOME from
> > other platforms. But a benefit of developing on an open stack with an
> > excellent (the best?) accessibility infrastructure is that it affords
> > us the opportunity to create alternative, better, more usable, (pick
> > an adjective) software to help users. Dasher is a perfect example:
> > born out of research and later packaged with GNOME releases as a new
> > "flavor" of on-screen keyboard.
> >     
>
> Absolutely! FOSS offers the possibility of innovation
This is one of the notions that gets me to work in the morning :)  My 
director here at the ATRC is a better word smith than I am so I ask 
anyone who is interested in a newspaper article titled "Inclusion 
promotes innovation" to follow this link: 
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/255521

Choice quote: "we have succumbed to the tyranny of the popular, the 
typical, the average, or the norm"...  but let's not!  We should be able 
to go so much farther and faster in FOSS land...

OK having some big sponsors would help.  Any board members listening... 
can we maybe create a directed giving program for accessibility (like 
MoFo recently did)?

cheers,
David