Accessibility at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for 10.04 (Natty Narwhal)

[Penelope Stowe <pstowe gmail com>]

As I mentioned in the meeting last week, I'm currently at the Ubuntu
Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida. I wanted to get everyone up to
date on what is happening here this week and how they can participate
remotely should they so wish. I'm really excited because a huge focus
this cycle in Ubuntu development will be accessibility so the more
input we can get in now,  the more we can rock this and create good
momentum for the future as well!

There will be several sessions dealing with accessibility at the
Ubuntu Developer Summit, Ubuntu's twice yearly summit to look ahead to
what we need to accomplish in the next cycle. You can look at all the
scheduled sessions at http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-n/ and information
about how to participate remotely is at
http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote/ . Please note that the gobby
being used is gobby-0.5 also known as gobby-infinote not gobby 0.4.

While accessibility certainly relates to other sessions, I'm only
going to mention the two main sessions about accessibility.

Improving Accessibility Development & Information - 26 October at
14:00 UTC (10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST)
I'm hoping this sessions will get as many people from different teams
together as possible so that we can look at the bigger picture of what
needs to happen to make Ubuntu kick ass when it comes to
accessibility. I'd like to be able to come up with some plans for
coordinating between teams both so that the Accessibility Team knows
what it needs to do and so that other teams know what we need. This is
a the closest to an accessibility team session because I realised we
needed to look at the bigger picture for a while.

A11y Support for Unity - 27 October at 20:15 UTC (16:15 EDT / 21:15 BST)
As you may have heard, Unity will start shipping as Ubuntu's default
desktop with 11.04. As a result Luke Yelavich will be moving to the
Unity team for this cycle to create the accessibility framework that
will work with Unity (and also the Gnome framework as Unity needs a
computer with 3D graphic rendering so users without this will have the
normal Gnome desktop install). This is his session to plan out and
figure out what his plans are and how we can best support him. Please
if you can come even if you're not a developer and are just
interested.

I will be on IRC and checking it most of the time so feel free to
message me (Pendulum) should you need some help. There will also be
other people around able to help. I hope some of you can make it!