CSUN 2008 Plans

Following are notes and plans for the  Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference (a.k.a. CSUN) 2008. The core developers, Mick and Jamie, will both be attending this event thanks to the  Mozilla Foundation.

To Do Before CSUN

• Tickets
  • definite: #14?
• Update NVDA version of eSpeak

Rough Schedule

Date	Time	Event
Mon 10Mar	11AM	Arrival
Wed 12Mar	10AM	IAccessible 2 meeting
Wed 12mar	6PM	Dinner meeting with Japanese NVDA project members
Fri 14Mar	4:20-5:20PM	BLV-3001: IAccessible2 Development: An Accessibility API that Works for Assistive Technologies and Applications
Sat 15Mar	6PM	Departure

To Demonstrate/discuss at CSUN

• proof of concept implementation of virtual buffers for Firefox 3
  • Demonstrate and solicit feedback on screen layout
  • Note that we now have text selection in virtual buffers
  • Dynamic content
• IAccessible 2 support
  • Example: Thunderbird 3: composing mail previously inaccessible, now completely useable in plain text mode
  • Example: forms in Firefox 3
• Java Access Bridge
  • todo: Find good Java app to use as example
• Miranda?
  • Discuss community involvement; core developers have had little to do with this
• Imbedded objects inside rich edit controls
  • example: Outlook Express