What benefits can open development of open source bring to accessibility and Assistive Technology?

1. Open accessibility
and the web
Steve Lee
Full Measure
OSS Watch
A11yLDN 21 Sep 2010
Copyright © 2010 Full Measure
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

2. ●Open ...

3. ●...source
●...development
●...content
●...innovation
●...gov
●...accessibility

4. ●Open Web

5. Open is ....

7. Low Barriers
To
Entry

9. Commons

10. Community

11. Collaborate

12. User engagement

13. Innovate

14. End users
Supporters
Service providers
Developers
Businesses

16. Open accessibility
And
the web

17. Open accessibility
And
the web

18. Standards
Good practice
Tools
Toolkits

19. NVDA
Firefox
GNOME
AccessApps

20. Simon Listens
OpenGazer
GOK / SIMWIN / Caribou
Maavis
Straight-Street
Jambu

21. Firebug
Dojo
JQuery
Drupal

22. W3C widgets for UI
Cross platform – mobile
Wookie server

23. User Testing!

25. Make the most of it...

26. Try it out

27. Share it

28. Engage – say hi

29. Report and discuss issues

30. Contribute something

31. Fix something

32. Join

34. Examples

35. StudyBar
* Cross browser a11y tools
(similar to BBC)
* Early release
* Southampton Uni
* Initial funding by TechDis
* OSS Watch

36. Straight-street.com
* Mulberry symbol set
* CC BY-SA licence
* Peer reviewed
* Web API
* SVG
* Charity

37. Maavis
Simple access to media & comms
Dementia, LD, switch users
Easy set up by support
Firefox add-on → web app
Sheffield uni + Barnsley NHS
EC funded

38. REALISE
* Open innovation in AT
* Users / devs / businesses
* Awareness
* Engagement
* JISC funded pilot

40. Engage and Enjoy