Howdy List,
I send the attached mail to the accessibility mailing list and then
thought I should also touch base with folks here also.
Same question to those here as on the other list - Anything in
particular regarding OO.o and a11y that you want to pass along.
Expanding that out a bit for this list to anything regarding diversity
issues in general with regard to OO.o the project and the people who
comprise it.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: OOoCon presentations - Ohio Linux Diversity Workshop
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:35:50 -0400
From: Andrew Jensen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hello,
I wanted to say thank you to Malte Timmermann and Bing Yin for the
accessibility presentation at this years OOoCon.
For anyone that may not yet know there is a video capture of the
session available at:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9282797
Looking forward to the Impress files from the presentation becoming
available also.
Last year I had the good fortune to attend the Ohio LinuxFest in
Columbus Ohio, USA and the excellent fortune to stay an extra day for
the Diversity Workshop.
This coming Sunday will be this yeas workshop. An all day event
covering a broad range of subjects including a11y issues with/in FOSS
projects and I'm happy to be attending once more.
Well, last year when the subject of A11Y come up there where many
questions regarding OpenOffic.org - capabilities, who to contact,
where the information can be found, extensions...the gambit - I had no
idea on any of it.
This year I am better prepared. I've gone over the information on the
wiki, the mailing list and what else I could find. I've started cc
myself to issues as they open and have the ability to demo some
features (Using Orca, odtDaisy, daisy reader..) under both Linux and
Windows,
It also appears that I'll have the chance, if I agree, to give a flash
talk about OO.o and Accessibility.
I feel pretty confident on being able to do so from an overview
(capabilites) level and plan to do so then.
- is there any message or some item that you would be particularly
interested I touch on?
Thanks for everyone here, particularly the folks reading this in
Hamburg, without you guys and your hard work none of this exists!
Drew
p.s.
Online Web Accessibility Conference, Sept 30th
http://accessibilitysummit.eventbrite.com/
