| RE: [technology-pmc] ACTF Community Development: Status & Response to Wayne Beaton |
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As a suggestion on this particular topic, it seems to me that
one possible area of potential adoption are the other open source communities
that have a need to create accessible user interfaces. Places like Linux and
Mozilla immediately come to mind. Could I help with some introductions into those communities? On a somewhat related note, we at the Eclipse Foundation quite
regularly get asked if the Eclipse IDE itself is certified as accessible.
Regrettably, our answer at this time is “we think so, but it is not
certified as such”. Is there any opportunity to use ACTF’s tools to
certify Eclipse itself? Even better, could this be done in a way that leverages
the participation of the community to expose more people to those tools? Question: How do you
reach out to people? Are there forums that you can participate in, conferences
that you should attend to meet these people? Until
now, we have used conferences and email listservs as ways of reaching out.
However, to be perfectly honest, we have not been proactive. So we sincerely
appreciate your prodding. Last week the project committers met and determined
that there were a few key conferences that we should be participating in
including ASSETS, CSUN and possibly RESNA. We are conducting a 1-day
workshop at ASSETS in October. We recently attended the Eclipse
conference. However, only a few people attended the session put on by
Kentarou and Mike Squillace. We are continue to look at other conferences
and forums and welcome your suggestions. |