Follow-up From May 25th Meeting/Accessibility Team Goals for Maverick Meerkat

[Penelope Stowe]

Hiya,

Sorry this e-mail is so late, I've spend the last week and a half
moving house and recovering.

On May 25th we met and had a quite successful meeting. The main point
of the meeting was to follow up from the UDS session and run the
decisions there past people and create a plan.

The biggest decision from UDS that was confirmed at the meeting was
that while we will have an overreaching Accessibility Team, the team
will mostly be broken into two teams: a development team headed by
Luke Yelavich (TheMuso on IRC) and an outreach/documentation team that
I will head.

Luke can expand more on what he's looking for for his team as I don't know :-)

My team is going to be focusing on two major action items:

1) Updating the wiki pages about the team. Nigel Babu and charlie-tca
(sorry Charlie, I don't know your name!) are working on this. I
suspect they're happy for any help they can get as I've already found
out it's more work than at least one of them expected ;-)

2) Creating personas that can be given to the Ubuntu design team,
developers, and other open source accessibility teams. These would
create profiles of people with specific impairments and accessibility
needs to give people less familiar with accessibility needs something
to work with when thinking about their software. Alan Bell and I are
working on this, and I know we'd love to hear from any volunteers.


We've decided on monthly full group meetings (both development and
outreach/documentation together) and I will be sending out an e-mail
shortly to see when is best for people for these meetings.

I'm very excited by what looks to be happening with this team and hope
we can have a really successful cycle!

~Penelope