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: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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 >> >> Thanks to all who were there, it was a great session. >> >> Luke >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFHu1wzjVefwtBjIM4RAp1xAJ4nCzOGU8ZaWyFO41UGlQRxT2CWGQCfcEVS >> yP3rxKQb33ZgWjJdZodkqVs= >> =WSWm >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
