Accessibility Minutes 2009 08 05

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Participants

  • Anne Abbott (IBM)
  • Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
  • Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM - chair)
  • Michael Squillace (IBM)
  • Sandy Foltz (University of Illinois)

Minutes

Agenda: http://openajax.org/pipermail/accessibility/2009-August/000077.html

Jon: Current Firebug accessibility extension - four extensions need to be installed

Sandy: The need to install four extensions will change in the future.

Sandy: Firebug ARIA Extensions http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Repository_Tools explains what is in each of the 4 extensions.

Jon: One goal of this group is to create rules that can be ported to various tools. JQuery experiences performance hit running entire rule set.

Michael: Rhino is a java-based engine.

Ann: ...discussion about various techniques of tools engines...

Rich: implementation of xpath in JavaScript http://www.nabble.com/Commited-faster-%282x!%29-%22javascript-xpath%22-library-in-revision-1949.-td15231420.html

Jon: What repository to use for rules sets?

Rich: Use OAA as repository for rules sets - Rich will facilitate setup.

Rich: When Mike returns, talk about harmonization of code

Rich: Talk about reporting best practices next week.

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