[oats-sig] FOSK

Hi all, See message below, these are open resources if people want to

Hi again Chris

It occurred to me that a knowledge of more basic accessibility
features like mouse keys would be useful. But perhaps they are pretty
constant across those OS/Desktops that have them?

PS I tried to fix the table markup error on the 2nd link but have no
luck getting my access email from twiki.

-- 
Steve Lee
--
Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
www.fullmeasure.co.uk

On 19/12/2007, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
> Hi all, See message below, these are open resources if people want to
> contribute to this interesting project:
>
> Cheers.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bailey
> Subject: Re: Introduction
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> My turn to apologise for the length of time taken to reply. I was away for a
> while and then had a lot to catch up on. I am working on a project funded by
> the national ICT Hub http://www.icthub.org.uk/ to promote Free and Open
> Source Software (FOSS) use in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) see
> http://www.fossvcs.org.uk/ . Part of the work is developing a new
> certification Free and Open Source Knowledge (FOSK) - initially for use in
> the UK VCS see
> http://www.fossvcs.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemi
> d=25
> . This is being done in partnership with the Linux Professional Institute.
>
> An important aspect of the certification will be to test knowledge of FOSS
> and accessibility issues - both Accessibility features of FOSS applications
> and FOSS AT (Assistive Technology). Concerning the latter, we want to narrow
> the field down to about a dozen or so of the most useful FOSS AT
> applications that we might ask questions about. We found the OATS list of
> FOSS AT very useful in this respect.
>
> You can see the point that we are at on this at
> https://group.lpi.org/publicwiki/bin/view/Examdev/FOSKTaskList Topic 6 and
> https://group.lpi.org/publicwiki/bin/view/Examdev/FossAccessibility
> . Feel free to comment there or add anything else you think could be useful
> - it's an open wiki. At the moment the work for the certification on this
> FOSS accessibility issue is being carried out by someone at Toronto
> University. I am sure he would be happy to hear from you or anyone else from
> the OATS team if you would like to become involved.
>
> The FOSK certification syllabus will form the basis for trainings to be
> carried out regionally in the VCS early next year. We also plan to post and
> keep up to date the FOSS AT list on Social Source Commons
> http://www.socialsourcecommons.org/ .
>
> regards,
>
> Chris Bailey
> ICT Hub FOSS in the VCS project
>
>
>
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