RE: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread Ian Pascoe
All I agree with Willie's road map for the initial touch point, but would suggest, well actually insist, that the page is in plain English, without technical terms or jargon used. From here you can move to the additional areas of, for instance, developers, advanced users, testers, standard users,

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Willie: > So...let's try to work out what we want the GNOME A11y WIKI to look > like. I'll start with a proposal that we can twist/turn/modify. :-) I > think the first question to ask is "who are the typical visitors to the > site and what do they want to do?" I'm going to guess it will be

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Parente
Back on the technical side of things, I haven't seen anyone mention emerging tech and research in accessibility as topics of interest for the committee. While the bleeding edge isn't as important as getting accessibility working today for users who need it, it still warrants attention for ensuring

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread David Bolter
Hi Will, Looks good. Two indirectly related things came to mind as I read your email. Can we: 1) create an IRC channel for more interactive discussions about gnome-a11y (or linux-a11y, or unix-a11y, or foss-a11y) 2) be mindful of potential KDE resources (harmonization). Maybe some stuff belong

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Lee
That's great Willie, I've just a few suggestions who: * Clinical and educational support staff (probably a mixture of end users, IT staff, and power users). They want to know how to support a number of clients, how to customise settings or create accessible media. * Windows AT developers: pointer

Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee

2007-12-20 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Before I invest a lot of effort into getting things going on the WIKI, I wanted to pass some ideas by everyone. I'm thinking that we want the work and impact of the committee to be very transparent. In addition, we want to avoid duplication of information as much as possible. This wi

Advocacy and evangelism [was Re: Forming an Accessibility Steering Committee]

2007-12-20 Thread Aaron Leventhal
We need to get some movers and shakers in the industry (VARs, rehab specialists, etc.) excited about what the open source community has. They will be our harshest critics and greatest evangelists. Many of them come to CSUN. The traditional CSUN "talk" is interesting but no one leaves feeling l