International FSG Accessibility Meeting Announcement

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  I'm looking at the URL in this message and don't find any link to
listen to the meeting.  Is it too early for the meeting audio, or is
there a problem with the web site?

thanks in advance.
          Kenny

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:54:40AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> FSG Accessibility Workgroup International Meeting 2005 Press Release
> Thursday, December 9, 2004
> 
> The Free Standards Group (FSG) today announced an international meeting of
> experts on open source computing platforms to further ongoing research,
> engineering, and standardization efforts in support of comprehensive computer
> access for persons with disabilities. Funded with a grant from the U.S.
> National Science Foundation (NSF), the meeting will be hosted by the
> Archimedes Project at the University of Hawaii during the week of January 24,
> 2005. Live video streams via the Internet are planned.
>  
> The meeting is intended to discuss accessibility support and reach consensus
> on a common layer of standardization that can be deployed and maintained on
> open source technology platforms such as Linux.   These standards can serve as
> the basis for future collaborative development of multiple accessible products
> that are cost effective, interoperable and heterogeneous.  Invited
> participants will include developers, marketers of free and open source
> technologies, academic and corporate researchers, and user communities. 
> 
> The objectives of the FSG's Accessibility Workgroup meeting in Hawaii include:
> 
> o To achieve consensus on standards that can be adopted to support 
> accessibility in the near term. The FSG's Accessibility Workgroup is 
> currently preparing specific proposals that will be presented at the meeting;
> 
> o Agree on engineering research and development that must yet be 
> performed in order to
> support all persons with disabilities;
> 
> o Identify areas where future targeted research on disability access 
> issues is required before engineering solutions can be put forward; 
> 
> Individuals and organizations interested in participating should contact
> Janina Sajka, the Accessibility Workgroup's Chair, at
> janina at freestandards.org.  The Home Page for this meeting, including both live
> and archived broadcast streams, is: http://a11y.org/f2f.html
> 
> About the Free Standards Group
> 
> The Free Standards Group is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to
> accelerating the use and acceptance of free and open source software by
> developing and promoting standards. Key Free Standards Group projects include
> the Linux Standard Base (LSB), OpenI18N, LANANA and the new Accessibility
> Workgroup. Supported by leaders in the IT industry as well as the open source
> development community, the Free Standards Group fulfills a critical need to
> have common behavioral specifications, tools and ABIs across Linux platforms.
> More information on the Free Standards Group is available at
> http://www.freestandards.org.
> 
> CONTACT: janina at freestandards.org
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Chair
> 				Accessibility Workgroup
> 				Free Standards Group (FSG)
> 
> janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Chair
> 				Accessibility Workgroup
> 				Free Standards Group (FSG)
> 
> janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040
> 
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