[Accessibility] Calling for votes on the FSG102

Doug Beattie dbb at linkexplorer.com
Fri Sep 12 12:06:14 PDT 2003


With the changes that have/ar going in I vote "yes" to accepting the
document.

My name and e-mail address is also correct.

Doug

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:25:14AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> The completed Sections 1 and 2 of the FSG102 document are now online at
> our web site, http://accessibility.freestandards.org, under the ling
> "FSG102." While there may still be a typo or two to clean up, all the
> edits we agreed to in our meeting this past Wednesday have been
> incorporated and the time has come to vote on this document.
> 
> Please vote today, Friday 12 September 2003.
> 
> As you vote, please check the attached list to ascertain that you and
> your organization are listed as you want them listed in Sec. 2a of the
> FSG102 document.
> If you are not listed, please indicate how you would like to be listed.
> No one not wishing to be listed will be.
> 
> 
> If we have majority approval, the document will be
> submitted to the FSG Board of Directors on Monday.
> 
> Thank you, each and everyone, for an excellent effort charting
> accessibility for free standards' environments.
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

> Current participants/interested parties 08/27/03
> 
> 1. Janina Sajka -- janina at afb.net
>       American Foundation for the Blind
> 
> 2. Bill Haneman -- bill.haneman at ireland.sun.com
>       GNOME Accessibility project and SUN
> 
> 3. JP Schnapper-Casteras -- jpsc at stanford.edu
>       Uni. Wisconson Trace Center - Stanford - one of KDE accessibility team
>       Dr. Gregg E. Vanderheiden -- Over the Trace Center -
>       GV at trace.wisc.edu
> 
> 4. Sharon Snider -- snidersd at us.ibm.com
>       IBM Linux Accessibility - Linux Technology Services
> 
> 5. Jonathan Blandford Red Hat <jrb at redhat.com>
> 
> 6. Jennifer Lamb -- jlamb at redhat.com
>       Red Hat (Accessibility Person)
> 
> 7. John Goldthwaite -- john.goldthwaite at arch.gatech.edu
>       GA Tech - Research Scientist II over accessibility team
>       Center for Assistive Technology & Environmental Access
> 
> 8. Mario Lang - mlang at debian.org Debian representative.
> 
> 9. (Pupeno) Jose Pablo Ezequiel Fernandez [pupeno at kde.org] KDE representative.
>       http://accessibility.kde.org
> 
> 19. Aaron J. Seigo - aseigo at olympusproject.org        - KDE representative
>       Code author of Kcalc, Kmail, KBouce and KDE documentor.
> 
> 11. Gunnar Schmidt - KDE (Austria) KDE Accessibility group and
>      Co-maintainer of the KDE Accessibility Project
>      Author and Maintainer of the kdeaccessibility packages
>        kttsd APIs, KMouth, etc.
>        http://accessibility.kde.org/
> 
> 12. Kirk Reiser                             The Computer Braille Facility
> 	e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca         University of Western Ontario
>         Author of Speakup screen reader: http://www.linux-speakup.org
> 
> 13. HP Matthew Wilcox (Willy) - Linux Kernel developer that looks out
>       for Accessibility issues, will represent HP.
> 	e-mail willy at fc.hp.com
> 
> 14. Marco Skambraks <marco at suse.de>
> 	SuSE's representative
> 
> 15. TV Raman -- tvraman at almaden.ibm.com
>       IBM - Low vision or Blind - Author of EmacSpeak software -
> 
> 
> Monitoring the group until an engineer is appointed is:
> 
> 16. Jan Aarsaether, Technical Sales Manager of Trolltech Inc.
>     jaa at trolltech.com
> 
> 
> Acting as an advisor when requested:
> 
> 17. Neil Scott, the Leader and Chief Engineer of the Archimedes Project at
>     Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information,
>     will act in an advisory role. Neil has been a member of several White
>     House committees on access issues and is a frequent reviewer of
>     disability-related grants for the National Science Foundation.
>     <ngscott at csli.stanford.edu>
> 
> 
> The following people/companies/groups are available to help as we find
> specific needs for them to work:
> 
> 18 Vince Stanford -- vincent.stanford at nist.gov
>       NIST -- Smart Space Lab Program Manager
> 
>       Sheppard, Charles L. - charles.sheppard at nist.gov
>        depart: Information Access Division (894)
>        agency: NIST
>       INCIT V2 - Charles works this area for NIST.
> 
> 
> The following person represents the FSG to this workgroup:
> 
> 19. Doug Beattie - Program Director
> 	dbb at freestandards.org


-- 
Doug Beattie
dbb at linkexplorer.com




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