[Accessibility] minutes: Open A11y Workgroup Call, 15 December 2009

Gregory J. Rosmaita oedipus at hicom.net
Tue Dec 15 08:43:09 PST 2009


aloha!

minutes from today's Open Accessibility Workgroup call can be found 
online as hypertext at:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Minutes20091215

as well as in plain text, following my signature -- as usual, please 
log any errors, corrections, clarifications, omissions and the like
by replying-to this announcement on-list...

mark, you are included in the "To:" field on this emessage, in order so 
that you can comment upon the progress you have made and compare notes
with willie, brad, and mike...

please note that today's meeting was the LAST Open A11y call for 2009;
Open Accessibility teleconferences will resume at the usual time (1600h
UTC) on TUESDAY, 5 JANUARY 2010

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Agenda20100105

thanks, gregory.

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     Gregory J. Rosmaita, gregory at linux-foundation.org
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minutes: Open A11y Workgroup Call, 15 December 2009
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Preliminary Items

Participants
 * Janina Sajka (JS/chair)
      + Mike Gorse (MG)
      + Gregory J. Rosmaita (GJR/scribe)
      + Brad Taylor (BT)
      + Willie Walker (WW)
          o regrets: Mark Doffman (MD)
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Open Action Item Review

     * ACTION - Mike Gorse: update the AT-SPI on D-Bus wiki page
       (http://a11y.org/d-bus) with information about the development
       release of AT-SPI2 0.1.2 and development release of AT-SPI2 0.1.3
          + status: in progress; MikeG will communicate directly with GJR
            if he encounters any difficulty with updating the AT-SPI on
            D-Bus wiki page

     * ACTION - GJR: work with Linux Foundation IT team to fix problems
       with new content management system
          + status: in progress; all links off of http://a11y.org/ should
            now lead to the correct destination, and the information
            should be current; systemic problems still being addressed
            with Linux Foundation staff
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Meeting Minutes

Topic 1: AT-SPI on D-Bus Port: Progress and Issues

     * AT-SPI on D-Bus Port wiki page last updated 30 October 2009 by
       Mike Gorse
          + MikeG is maintaining the AT-SPI on D-Bus Port wiki page, and
            will add info about AT-SPI2 development releases to the D-Bus
            wiki page

Discussion of Topic 1: D-Bus Port Update

   WW: started Orca regression tests for GTK demo for CORBA based GTI in
   gitmaster -- relocated AT-SPI with CORBA -- by twiggling g-comp key
   was able to run baseline text; CORBA stuff still works as expected

   WW: not as much success with D-Bus; Orca fine on desktop, but problem
   with regression tests

   MG: getting failures in test - other problems?

   WW: not able to connect to Orca during regression test:

   WW: what happens is that Orca fires up D-Bus service for test to talk
   to; D-Bus service says "start recording" when starts tests and "stop
   recording" when tests run; recording what is being sent to speech or
   braille device; runs app through application, then ask what Orca spoke
   during runtime

   WW: events being properly played, application going through motions of
   interactivity, but Orca not recording anything - not sure if failure
   of Orca to speak or produce braille

   BT: few failures - getting empty tubes; have to sit down, grind
   through what is wrong and fix

   BT: think a11y bus is dying prematurely, so Orca not getting any
   events

   BT: any chance to try python module-loading - pyatspi d-bus without
   upsetting library

   WW: great idea; relocating pyatspi module for CORBA stuff; who
   installs pyatspi redirect?

   WW: 2 packages will have to co-exist

   WW: modified system module dictionary

   WW: long meeting with RedHat yesterday

   WW: had good discusion on API -- wording choices different -- changed
   to assistance seing hearing typing and pointing and clicking without a
   mouse; geared towards what trying to do; scanning mode still to be
   investigated - duplicate item in keyboard and mouse area; scanning
   vastly different system mode, so may have to be a higher checkbox

   WW: GNOME A11y meeting in England in early 2010 to address
   switched-based access -- hope to link up with Steve Lee and individual
   from sweeden who have expertise in this area -- trying to assure that
   they are there

   WW: in the meantime, GOK broken now; have to figure out how to get GOK
   incorporated

   WW: working on revised UI

   WW: trying to make preferences for a11y easier to find and use

   WW: GNOME 3.0 will be full of innovations -- do the same for a11y in
   GNOME 3.0 -- not just for GNOME shell, but important base components
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Topic 2: Web Site Update

   GJR: GJR has joined the Drupal Accessibility Group which is creating a
   Drupal Accessibility Statement

References:
 2.1. Drupal Accessibility Group: http://drupal.org/node/394094
 2.2. Drupal Accessibility Statement: http://groups.drupal.org/node/39134

New Business

Identify Topics for the Remainder of 2009

     * 15 December 2009 is the last Open Accessibility Workgroup
       teleconference of 2009;
     * Open Accessibility Workgroup teleconferences will resume at their
       regularly scheduled time (1600h UTC) on 5 January 2010

Wrap Up

Summary of Continued Action Items

     * ACTION - Mike Gorse: update the AT-SPI on D-Bus wiki page
       (http://a11y.org/d-bus) with information about the development
       release of AT-SPI2 0.1.2 and development release of AT-SPI2 0.1.3
          + status: in progress; MikeG will communicate directly with GJR
            if he encounters any difficulty with updating the AT-SPI on
            D-Bus wiki page

     * ACTION - GJR: work with Linux Foundation IT team to fix problems
       with new content management system
          + status: in progress; all links off of http://a11y.org/ should
            now lead to the correct destination, and the information
            should be current; systemic problems still being addressed
            with Linux Foundation staff
          + status: GJR has joined the Drupal Accessibility Group which
            is creating a Drupal Accessibility Statement
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     * meeting adjourned 1626h UTC
     * next Open A11y conference call: 2010-01-04
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* http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Minutes20091215
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