Ubuntu Developer Summit for Precise Pangolin - Accessibility Sessions

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:19:28 -0400
Penelope Stowe <pstowe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm sorry we haven't had a meeting in a while, I've had some health
> stuff I've been dealing with.
> 
> Next week is the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida. This
> UDSwill be planning for Precise Pangolin, which is a Long Term Support
> release so hopefully we can use it to truly get accessibility working!
> 
> If you are in the Orlando area and aren't already planning on coming
> to UDS, please consider doing so! You can register online for free
> [0].
> 
> If you aren't in the Orlando area or can't attend UDS in person for
> another reason, it is possible to participate remotely using the
> audiostreams and IRC [1]. All notes from sessions are taken using the
> Ubuntu UDS Etherpad deployment and there will be links to the pads
> announced at the beginning of sessions. Please note if you are
> attending remotely and are not in the US/Canada that times on the
> schedule are in local time to UDS (so Eastern Time) and that the
> US/Canada will still be on Daylight Savings Time, but Europe (and I
> think the rest of the Northern Hemisphere) will have switched back to
> standard. You can register remote participation at UDS using the same
> link for registering to attend in person.
> 
> As of right now, there are two sessions out there directly dealing
> with accessibility. Please add ideas/suggestions for discussions to
> the white board on the blueprints linked for each session.
> 
> Accessibility Team Community Goals [2]
> Wednesday November 2, 16:15 Eastern Time (20:15 UTC)
> This will be looking at community goals for improving accessibility
> 
> Accessibility Polish [3]
> Thursday November 3, 15:00 Eastern Time (19:00 UTC)
> This will be looking at development goals (mainly Canonical, but I
> hope the community is able to contribute as well!) for accessibility
> with the goal of making both Unity 2D and Unity 3D 100% accessible for
> Precise.
> 
> I will send out e-mails if either of these sessions is rescheduled.
> 
> If you have the time to attend more than those sessions (or can't
> attend those, but would like to attend other sessions), please look at
> the schedule for other sessions you may be interested in [4]. It would
> also be wonderful if people could reply to the list with other
> sessions that might have extra relevance to accessibility so that we
> can try to find at least one person from the team to attend either in
> person or remotely.
> 
> I'm looking forward to seeing those of you who will be at UDS in
> person and hearing from the rest of you!
> 
> Thank you!
> Penelope
> 
> [0] http://uds.ubuntu.com/register/
> [1] http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote/
> [2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-p-accessibility-team-community-goals
> [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-accessibility-polish
> [4] http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/
> 

One more accessibility blueprint, filed late. This is to try and make
developers other than Luke aware that we need to stop breaking
accessibility during the cycle. 

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-p-accessibility-team-testing

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Charlie Kravetz 
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