It’s been just over a year since I started working full-time for the Mozilla Foundation, and about a year and a half since the Foundation spun off the Mozilla Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Since that time we’ve engaged in a number of useful amount of activities at the Foundation; however I think it’s fair to say that the Foundation has barely scratched the surface of what it can do. ...
This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 13, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I did this past week: Grants and related activities. I committed to speak at the July 2 meeting of the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science group in Atlanta; thanks to Curtis Chong for inviting the Mozilla Foundation to be represented there. I also attended a dinner with members of the W3C WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (the folks working on WAI-ARIA and related initiatives); thanks to Aaron Leventhal for inviting me and to Tom Wlodkowski of AOL for hosting the dinner. Finally, I worked on some stuff related to the upcoming W4A meeting sponsored by the Foundation. ...
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 6, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. The Mozilla Foundation is making a grant to Knowbility to support three of their accessibility-related events this spring: the two-part Designation/Codeathon 2.0 and Access U 2007. Next action(s): Make more progress on the action items arising from CSUN and G3ICT. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. ...
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 30, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. I attended and spoke at the G3ICT meeting on Monday, March 26, at the United Nations building in New York. I also considered some new requests for conference and travel sponsorships. ...
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 23, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. My main activity for the week was attending the CSUN conference. The Mozilla Foundation had a booth in the CSUN exhibit area and also a separate room where we hosted meetings of developers working on Mozilla-related accessibility issues. Aaron Leventhal and others did a conference presentation on the “Mozilla accessibility ecosystem,” and we talked to lots of other people about Mozilla Foundation-sponsored work to support accessibility of dynamic web applications and related matters. It was great being able to talk to a number of people whose work we’ve funded; many thanks to those folks who helped out with the booth. ...
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the weeks ending March 9 and March 16, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did these past two weeks: Grants and related activities. I continued preparations for the CSUN conference. I also presented to the Mozilla Foundation board an overview of the Foundation’s strategy on funding accessibility-related projects, along with a wish list for future funding. ...
Due to lack of time I didn’t do a status report for this week; see the next status report for the week ending March 16, 2007.
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 2, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. I continued preparations for the CSUN conference, including making sure we have booth banners and signs, handouts, etc. Next action(s): Finish up CSUN stuff. CA certificates. Gerv Markham continued work on processing bugs for including CA certificates. Gerv and I also provided some feedback to the Mozilla Corporation on possible approaches to dealing with Extended Validation certificates. ...
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 23, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. I’m working with Aaron Leventhal to prepare an overall plan for Mozilla-related accessibility work in 2007 and 2008. Regardless of how this plan gets funded (and some work may not get funded at all), I think this will be a useful exercise to pull together all of the accessibility-related Mozilla activities into one vision and connect them with the wider world of open source accessibility. ...
This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 16, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. This was a big week for Mozilla Foundation-funded projects. Charles Chen finished up his project to create test cases for WAI ARIA live regions; this work promises to help advance the cause of enhancing accessibility for web-based applications that make heavy use of dynamic updating, and is receiving some good feedback. Shortly thereafter Alexander Surkov finished his project to improve XForms accessibility, and we approved a new project in which he’ll work on implementing the IAccessible2 accessibility API for Windows in Mozilla code. IAccessible2 is an extremely strategic technology from the point of view of accessibility; for a more in-depth discussion see the newsgroup message by Aaron Leventhal and blog posts by Rich Schwerdtfeger of IBM and Peter Korn of Sun. We also approved another project for Gijs Kruitbosch to improve the accessibility of the ChatZilla IRC client; this is important for present and future Mozilla developers who use screen readers and other assistive technologies and who want to participate more fully in developer discussions. Finally, in non-accessibility news Henri Sivonen will be presenting at XTech 2007 on his Mozilla Foundation-funded work to create an HTML5 conformance checker. ...