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.
