Self-introduction

Dear all:

I joined this Community Group last week and it looks like there is not much
activity. It is due to time, I guess, to break the ice with a
self-introduction and sharing some ideas.

Actually, "I" is "We", as two others colleague of mine in CTIC have also
joined: Cristina González and Javier Rodríguez. We have been working in the
Mobile Web arena since 2005 by working in different R&D projects and by
transferring knowledge and software to different companies -mainly,
Spanish. With regard to activity in W3C, we have participated in the W3C
Mobile Web Best Practices working group where we provided a couple of
reference implementations of the BPs and worked in the development of the
W3C mobileOK Checker library which provides support to
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ We also participated in the Device
Description working group, co-authoring the W3C Device Description
Repository Simple API Recommendation and providing one of the reference
implementations of the API. Currently, we are participating in the
Model-Based User Interfaces working group.

Since late 2011, we have started working in the Mobile Accessibility space
by collaborating with the Web Ergonomics Laboratory of the University of
Manchester, coordinated by Dr. Simon Harper -who most of you may know as
the chair of the  R&D working group within the WAI. This collaboration
tries to follow the work in the PhD Thesis of Tianyi Chen and briefly
explained in our contribution (http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/mobile/paper3/)
to the recent Mobile Accessibility Online Symposium organized by W3C (
http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/mobile/).

We have been working since 2006 in a software platform to create mobile web
applications for different mobile devices (WAP -sorry to include it,
although it is "non-web" :-) -, XHTML-MP/Basic, HTML4 and HTML5) called
MyMobileWeb. It is the result of several Spanish and European R&D projects
with many different partners, released under LGPL license. We are
contributing our different research and development efforts to the
platform, including the work in Mobile Accessibility. It has been the
engine beyond some commercial web pages.

After this intro, it is time to start with some action. The first action
may be members introducing themselves and commenting their expectations
about this Community Group.

In our case, we would like to have:

- a clear idea of the main technologies involved in mobile technologies
- existing research and development
- existing commercial products

After all of this, the idea would be to identify missing gaps (including
needs for new standardization) and R&D and commercial opportunities in the
Mobile (Web) Accessibility arena.

Looking forward to receiving your feedback.

Regards,

Nacho

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Ignacio Marín Prendes
CTIC-Centro Tecnológico
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