[Accessibility] NSF report writting assignments

[Janina Sajka]

Please don't forget to get your paragraphs in for our NSF report:

 Keyboard I/O: Earl Johnson
 AT-SPI: Bill Hanaman
 Magnification: Peter Korn & Bill Hanaman
 Audio Based AT: Olaf & Janina
 Braille: Janina

 Kernel: Janina
 Appendix: 
 Participants list - John Goldthwaite

 George Kraft will contact FSG board on patent
issues

--- Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:

> FSGA Report To NSF
> DRAFT OUTLINE
> October 19, 2005
> 
> 
> Executive Summary
> We wish to thank NSF for its support of our
> work with the grant provided to us:
> [$GRANT_NO]. As the attached financial report
> shows, most of this funding was applied to
> supporting the in person participation of key
> Linux (and other free and open source software)
> accessibility experts from around the world in
> a 4 day workshop hosted by at the University of
> Hawaii. Additional funds were applied to
> facilitating this workshop, and to preparing
> and publishing proceedings in the form of audio
> and transcript archives on our web site,
> http://a11y.org. It is now clear to us no such
> meeting would have been possible had it not
> been for the generous financial support of NSF
> in this grant. Furthermore, we are pleased to
> report that we achieved significant consensus
> and forward movement in the development of
> accessibility on free and open computing
> platforms as a result of this workshop. Lastly,
> we have been able to engage participation from
> communities of interest not previously
> represented in our effort, and to work at
> coordinating these various disparate efforts as
> a result.
> Topics And Outcomes
> 
> We took a global view of accessibility in the
> free and open source computing environment. Our
> discussions ranged literally from bootup
> through shutdown and included bios, boot
> loader, kernel, console, and desktop
> accessibility. Of course we also spent time
> discussing key areas of FSGA standardization
> efforts including:
> 
> Keyboard I/O: We are about to publish our RFC
> for an FSGA standard covering alternative
> input.
> 
> AT-SPI: [$para on agreement pointing also to
> our recent statement]
> 
> Magnification: [Can someone in this meeting
> provide a para on what was agreed?]
> 
> Audio Based AT: Speech-Dispatcher,
> Gnome=-Speech, discussions
> 
> Braille: Coordination between several
> communities initiated, including two French
> development groups who had not previously
> coordinated efforts.
> 
> Kernel: We spawned an activity to move the most
> widely accepted console screen reader (Speakup)
> into the Linux kernel.
> 
> Appendix: Meeting Details
> 
> Our meetings were held at the [$TIME and PLACE]
> [$DATE]
> 
> Participants by Name
> 
> Participants by organization
> 
> Participants grouped by new to FSGA vs.
> previously engaged with our work
> 
> Agenda
> 
> Financial Report
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.240.715.1272
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> 
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards
> Group (FSG)
> janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org
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John Goldthwaite
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