Re: Today's meeting, the log.

[Bill Haneman <gnome billhaneman ie>]

Hi Folks;

I cannot attend at 21:00 UTC today, but would gladly attend at 21:00 UTC 
Friday to discuss magnification.

Will, if the meeting goes ahead on Friday please forward the concall 
number(s) if possible, thanks!

Bill

Willie Walker wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Luke
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