- From: Steve Lee <steve@opendirective.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:31:30 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi all Joshue suggested I briefly introduce myself. Looking through the membership list I find I already know or know "of" many of you. I guess a11y is a small friendly world :) My background is as a developer from embedded to web apps in fields from mobile data (PMR) to education and commercial financial systems. I've also worked on guidance in Open Development in the HE sector (OSS Watch). My current interest and activity is in open access technology for those with low digital literacy or cognitive disabilities. I'm specifically interested in providing technology that allows easy access to services and tools for everyday life. I see this as increasingly meaning web technologies, both 'pure' web accessibility, good design principles and 'applied' in targeted web apps and [soon] web components. I've joined the cog a11y group as I'd like to contribute to these generally underserved user needs through a11y specs and access tech. I'm also involved in this area in two GPII projects lead by Gregg Vanderheiden that is developing infrastructure for user a11y personalisation of UIs. Finally, I looking at building on previous work on a research project with Sheffield University for people with dementia, porting it from Mozilla XUL to HTML technologies now these are becoming so broadly applicable and powerful. Firefox OS is also looking interesting in this space and I'm involved with one of the volunteer programmes. So while I don't have so much coga11y user domain experience I hope to bring my technical skills and experience from developing tools and components that address needs. One idea that appeals to me is Steve Faulkner's recent success in using a web component to act as a prototype and discussion point for a new HTML5 spec feature. I think this model could be useful for getting user feedback into later stages of the coga11y spec work, without the requirement for specific browser developer support 1st. Steve Lee OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
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