Re: Today's meeting, the log.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Luke!

The turnout yesterday was amazing, with everyone asking a lot of really 
good questions, making a lot of great suggestions, and people just plain 
connecting with each other.  We had some really good discussions around:

1) Evince accessibility.  The cool thing here is that Brian Cameron, who 
has considerable experience with implementing accessible text support, 
is willing to mentor this and Behdad Esfahbod, aka "Mr. Pango", is 
willing to answer questions as well.  This is cool.

2) Documentation.  We had good discussion about the overall need for 
documentation for users, developers/testers, and integrators.  I think 
we were close to concluding that the user-oriented documentation and the 
more technical documentation might be separate tasks.

3) Testing.  While this one is going to be an interesting challenge, the 
great thing is that everyone agrees it is really needed.  We've already 
started a discussion on 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-February/msg00103.html, 
and people are encouraged to join it.

4) Speech.  We touched on this briefly.  Speech Dispatcher is among the 
obvious choices, but we need to have more discussion about this.  Before 
jumping on speech dispatcher completely, we need to make sure it can 
help address audio issues while simultaneously supporting screen 
readers, AAC technology, self-voicing applications, etc.  It also needs 
to be capable of behaving properly in shared-server environments such as 
the Sun Ray and smaller devices such as OLPC and OpenMoko.  We should 
probably also discuss this with the KDE and Open A11y folks to see if 
they would be on board with it.  In other words, if we're going to do 
this, we need to do it right and we need to do it with the larger 
community in mind.

5) Magnification.  We didn't get to this at all.

Post meeting, Eitan (eeejay) and Bryen (suseROCKs) also talked about 
ideas along the lines of a Hall of Fame and Certification Logo.  Neat 
stuff, and they will write more about it when they work up details.

Given all the great questions and participation, the meeting went longer 
than expected.  So, we discussed continuing the conversation tomorrow 
(Thu) at the same time.  The main topics will be speech and magnification.

I just want to be sure, though, that the needed players will be there 
tomorrow: Tomas Cerha for discussing speech dispatcher (hittsjunk and 
Kajarii would also be very helpful), Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes 
and Kristian Lyngstøl for magnification.  Will you be able to make it? 
If not, would Friday at the same time work better for people?

Thanks again, everyone!

Will

Luke Yelavich wrote:
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> Hey folks.
> Here is the log of today's meeting. Note that this meeting will continue on Thursday at the same time. Enjoy.
> http://irclogs.themuso.com/a11y/2008/#a11y.02-20.log
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> Thanks to all who were there, it was a great session.
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> Luke
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