[oats-sig] Accessibility coding sprint

Here's a starter from myself:

Impressive goals and the projects look interesting. Local community is
a good point. We should discuss the forge side with them.;

I wonder who are the programmers at the hackathon?

Anything that helps with alt access. How about autohot keys for linux?

Something towards speech recog would be good but that's big. Perhaps a
tie-in with Komodo Open lab?

Do we know if  they are on this list? Just wondering how they will
here (I've dropped them a line to see if they will be in Boston next
week).

Steve

On 28/09/2007, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
> Here's a starter from myself:
>
> - A word predictor that will work independently and/or in conjunction with
> SAW.
>
> Also, note I misspelt the URL:  www.projectpossibility.org
>
> Nice weekend all.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Judge
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:45 PM
> To: 'OATs Project Special Interest Group'
> Subject: [oats-sig] Accessibility coding sprint
>
> See the message below from Chris at www.projectpossiblity.org (an
> organisation with similar goals, stateside).  Anyone got ideas how we can
> input to this?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Leung
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: Simon Judge
> Subject: Re: Project:Possibility - A Software Collaboration for the Disabled
>
> Simon,
>
> Thank you for the response and for the list of interesting projects.
>
> An exciting update on our end--we will be hosting an accessibility-themed
> Code-A-Thon event at the University of Southern California on November
> 17th-18th.  This 24 hour event will be an opportunity for 30-60
> undergraduate and graduate level computer science majors/software developers
> to develop empowering software for the disabled community, gain awareness,
> learn something new, and win prizes in the process.
>
> If you have any other interesting project ideas in mind these developers
> could hack away at over the weekend, we'd love to hear it.  One possibility
> is that we could further specify some of the projects you had in mind, and
> possibly make significant progress on them over one weekend!
>
> If OATSoft would somehow like to have a presence at this event, we're happy
> to open discussion about how that might happen.  Being thousands of miles
> away doesn't help--but it would be interesting to come up with ways on how
> we might be able to collaborate.  We are also looking for sponsorships, if
> OATS is in any position to do that.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris Leung
>
>
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