ASSETS 2008

Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) Hands-on Session

Date:

Sunday 12th October 2008

Price:

$20 (USD) to cover materials

40 Places only!

The Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) is an open source project within Eclipse.org. It was launched last October. Please visit the ACTF webpage for detailed information.

There are sets of accessibility components that researchers and engineers can use for their development work. For example, aDesigner, Flash accessibility validation engines, ai-Browser for multimedia and so on, which have been presented in the previous ASSETS conferences have been opensourced after conponentization on the Eclipse ACTF. In addition, we will introduce APIs for "Accessibility Commons", a metadata repository that allows you to store the metadata you generated and share the metadata in your browser environment. In this hands-on session, we would like to introduce sets of useful components for Web accessibility research. Each attendee will experience writing some code using some of components of the ACTF. The detailed agenda will be introduced soon, but if you are interested in opensource components, please plan to attend the hands-on session.

IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory