That's great, John! I hope to be in attendance. Jamal On 2/5/2011 11:37 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
I will be on the FLOSS panel discussing liblouis, liblouisuteml and BrailleBlaster, all under rapid development. John On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:10:23AM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:Note, by the way, that one of the sessions below is by Freedom Scientific, doing a session on developing with Visual Studio 2010, Windows Presentation Foundation, and JAWS 12. Jamal On 2/5/2011 9:22 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:FYI - I found 16 sessions related to software or web development, described below. Jamal Contents How to Make Friends and Remove Access Barriers In Open Source Software AAC Enhanced Web, Mobile and Open Source Editor using Concept Coding Framework Discover Open Source Assistive Technology Solutions 2011 The Great Equalizer: Android-Based, Open Source, Assistive Technology Software Tackling Web Accessibility: A Campus Case Study of a Ten Year Struggle Moodle ? Using Open Source Software to Deliver Accessible Online Open Source As An Emerging Option Globally CSUN, Accessibility, and Drupal Using Dragon Scripting Language Objects with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Pro Worldspace FireEyes ? a free tool for AJAX application development Using JAWS with Visual Studio 2010 to Create Accessible WPF Applications Adobe Flex Best Practices ? What to Expect Unifying Video Captions and Text-Based Audio Descriptions FLOSS Accessibility: An Overview and Look Toward the Future HTML5 and Flash ? An Accessibility Comparison Web Media Accessibility with HTML5 ---------- How to Make Friends and Remove Access Barriers In Open Source Software WEB-2029 Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 8:00 - 9:00 AM PST Intermediate America's Cup A How to Make Friends and Remove Access Barriers In Open Source Software We will demonstrate the conducive environment an Open Source desktop, such as GNOME, provides for developing a compelling and highly accessible computing experience. Eitan Isaacson The GNOME Foundation ---------- AAC Enhanced Web, Mobile and Open Source Editor using Concept Coding Framework AAC-2012 Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 12:00 - 12:30 PM PST Intermediate Cunningham A AAC Enhanced Web, Mobile and Open Source Editor using Concept Coding Framework The CCF turns freely available AAC tools out of existing open source editors like Open Office. CCF consists of concept codes, AAC symbols and lexicons.Annika Br?nnstr?m Bengt Farre ---------- Discover Open Source Assistive Technology Solutions 2011 TEC-1009 Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 3:10 - 4:10 PM PST Beginner Cunningham C Discover Open Source Assistive Technology Solutions 2011 Learn how assistive technology users can benefit from open source software, including customized operating systems, free software, and Android smartphones with the latest applications.Paul Lloyd USDA TARGET Center ---------- The Great Equalizer: Android-Based, Open Source, Assistive Technology Software BLV-1067 Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:40 - 11:40 AM PST Beginner Oxford The Great Equalizer: Android-Based, Open Source, Assistive Technology Software This session will demonstrate how high-quality, open source (free to the user), AT software is transforming Android smartphones into powerful AT devices!Steve Jacobs Apps4Android, Inc ---------- Tackling Web Accessibility: A Campus Case Study of a Ten Year Struggle LGL-1003 Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 3:10 - 4:10 PM PST Beginner America's Cup D Tackling Web Accessibility: A Campus Case Study of a Ten Year Struggle In this lecture, learn how web accessibility at Cerritos College was achieved with political will and software. The presenter proposes an open source software project.Lucinda Aborn Cerritos College Ty Bowman Cerritos College ---------- Moodle ? Using Open Source Software to Deliver Accessible Online WEB-2047 Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 4:20 - 5:20 PM PST Intermediate Oxford Moodle ? Using Open Source Software to Deliver Accessible Online Through demonstration and example, Carroll Center staff will explain their reasons for and experience with using Moodle to create and deliver accessible online courses.Brian Charlson The Carroll Center for the Blind Mark Sadecki Carroll Center for the Blind ---------- Open Source As An Emerging Option Globally TEC-1021 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 9:20 - 10:20 AM PST Beginner Emma A Open Source As An Emerging Option Globally A look at the software currently offered as open source and the markets that are embracing open source technology to meet their accessibility needs.Bryen Yunashko GNOME Foundation ---------- CSUN, Accessibility, and Drupal WEB-3006 Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 1:50 - 2:50 PM PST Advanced Cunningham C CSUN, Accessibility, and Drupal How California State University, Northridge, is implementing Drupal, the Web Content Management System, with help from the greater Drupal accessibility community.Joseph O'Connor California State University, Northridge Pratik Patel EZFire Kimon Rethis CSUN ---------- Using Dragon Scripting Language Objects with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Pro OTH-2004 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 10:40 - 11:40 AM PST Intermediate Windsor B Using Dragon Scripting Language Objects with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Pro Session provides an overview of the Dragon Scripting Language extensions programming objects for generating new commands for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 11.Ed. Rosenthal Next Generation Technologies Inc. ---------- Worldspace FireEyes ? a free tool for AJAX application development WEB-2027 Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 1:50 - 2:50 PM PST Intermediate Randle B Worldspace FireEyes ? a free tool for AJAX application development Making dynamic JavaScript applications accessible in a team environment with contributors from multiple companies with FireEyes.Dylan Barrell Deque Systems Inc. ---------- Using JAWS with Visual Studio 2010 to Create Accessible WPF Applications BLV-2083 Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 3:10 - 4:10 PM PST Intermediate Manchester C Freedom Using JAWS with Visual Studio 2010 to Create Accessible WPF Applications Learn how JAWS can help users overcome accessibility/productivity challenges in Microsoft?s latest development environment, Visual Studio 2010, based primarily on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).Glen Gordon Freedom Scientific ---------- Adobe Flex Best Practices ? What to Expect WEB-2054 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 10:40 - 11:40 AM PST Intermediate Manchester A Adobe Adobe Flex Best Practices ? What to Expect Do you develop applications in Adobe Flex? Come to this session for tips on building more accessible applications from those who have been there.Jonathan Avila SSB BART Group Matt May Adobe ---------- Unifying Video Captions and Text-Based Audio Descriptions WEB-1038 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:00 - 12:30 PM PST Beginner Gibbons Unifying Video Captions and Text-Based Audio Descriptions We aims to provide inexpensive ways to create accessible videos, by developing open-source, user-friendly software that covers both captions and audio descriptions while promoting standardization.Chieko Asakawa IBM Research Kentarou Fukuda IBM Masatomo Kobayashi Reiko Nagatsuma Japan Hironobu Takagi IBM Research ---------- FLOSS Accessibility: An Overview and Look Toward the Future TEC-1010 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:50 - 2:50 PM PST Beginner Cunningham C FLOSS Accessibility: An Overview and Look Toward the Future A panel discussion featuring FLOSS accessibility experts and activists to describe the current state of the art with a look toward the future.Chris Hofstader Free SOftware Foundation ---------- HTML5 and Flash ? An Accessibility Comparison WEB-2057 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:50 - 2:50 PM PST Intermediate Windsor B HTML5 and Flash ? An Accessibility Comparison It?s an accessibility bake-off! Learn about the features and technical differences between the two most popular environments for developing rich internet applications.Matt May Adobe Steve Faulkner The Paciello Group ---------- Web Media Accessibility with HTML5 WEB-2063 Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:50 - 2:50 PM PST Intermediate Manchester G Microsoft Web Media Accessibility with HTML5 This session will demonstrate some practical techniques for achieving WCAG compliance with the new HTML5 media tags.Sean Hayes Microsoft __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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