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Open Source Accessibility Forum

Open Source Accessibility Forum. August 11, 2009. Welcome!. Logistics. Wifi Access IRC Captioning. UNESCO. Mr. Abdul Waheed Khan PhD. What we hope to accomplish. Review current work and status Identify gaps and critical work Develop strategies and roadmap moving forward

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Open Source Accessibility Forum

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  1. Open Source Accessibility Forum August 11, 2009

  2. Welcome!

  3. Logistics • Wifi Access • IRC • Captioning

  4. UNESCO • Mr. Abdul Waheed Khan PhD.

  5. What we hope to accomplish • Review current work and status • Identify gaps and critical work • Develop strategies and roadmap moving forward • Present to broader community at follow up meeting in October

  6. “The problem space” • How many people with disabilities can presently, reliably use open source systems and applications?

  7. How many people with disabilities can afford not to? Assistive Technologies and most of the world • Available to purchase? • Maintained and serviced? • Cost less than 50% of annual income?

  8. Technology Gap Assistive Technology • Functionality and scope of compatibility • Price • Accessible ICT domain rapidly getting smaller with respect to ICT used by average user

  9. Direct vs. Specialized • Direct access is improving and seems more sustainable • Issue of personalization and familiarization

  10. The advantage of Open Source • What can we do in Open Source that we can’t do in proprietary or closed systems? • Should we mimic proprietary systems and create a parallel system? • … or can we do something innovative and radical?

  11. How do we… Reach a critical mass of accessibility to make it viable: • for people with disabilities to use open source systems (e.g., Linux) • for jurisdictions/organizations that require accessibility to adopt open source systems and applications

  12. Approaches • Make sure that OS applications are accessible • Provide open source developer supports for creating accessible systems (both OS and proprietary) • Create OS assistive technologies • Create accessible OS infrastructure

  13. Strategic Approaches • AEGIS - Peter Korn • Raising the Floor - Gregg Vanderheiden • Fluid (part of both) - Colin Clark

  14. Status of Current Work

  15. Critical Gaps

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