This site is under development with an unstable development version of Drupal 7 for testing purposes.
I am a huge fan of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Unless i am doing development testing, Firefox is the only browser I use in Windows. In Mac OS X, however, I cannot use Firefox, as it is not compatible with the VoiceOver screen-reader.
In September 2009 Marco Zehe wrote The current state of accessible Firefox on the Mac, your help is appreciated!. I read the article with interest, but did nothing to help out. Granting myself the benefit of the doubt: at that time I was involved in Drupal 7 accessibility work, moving, and starting a new job.
In February 2010 I downloaded and built Firefox with accessibility enabled on a MacBook running OS X Snow Leopard. The experience of using Firefox with VoiceOver on Snow Leopard was very much like Marco described in his article, and left a great deal to be desired.
In order that I may effectively contribute to this project I am currently working on learning objective-c programming language and am learning about the Apple Accessibility API.
I began working on improving the accessibility of the Drupal content management system in the Summer of 2009 while working as a developer for OpenConcept Consulting. At that time some attention had been given to the accessibility of Drupal 7, but much work was left to be done. Over the course of the Summer and Fall of 2009 many Drupal accessibility issues were identified and and corrected by active members of the Drupal community.
During my time working on Drupal 7 accessibility I had the opportunity to write several blog articles on Drupal accessibility, to participate in the Drupal Accessibility Group and to provide presentations at events like the Drupal in Government Showcase (Ottawa) and DrupalCamp Montreal. Although I have reduced my involvement in the Drupal community, I can still occasionally be found in the Drupal accessibility issue queue.
The Fluid community is an international group of designers, developers, volunteers, and advisers who focus on a common mission: improving the user experience of community and open source web applications. To accomplish this goal, Fluid addresses the issue of user experience on all levels. ( http://fluidproject.org/about-us/our-mission/ )
I began work with the Fluid Project in the Fall of 2008, while working with the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto. During my time with ATRC I contributed to Fluid by providing informal training to developers about the needs of disabled technology users, by assisting with solving accessibility problems with some WAI-ARIA widgets, and through participating in formal and informal user testing of Fluid Infusion components.
I still enjoy participating in discussions revolving around the accessibility of Fluid Projects, through the Fluid-Work mailing list and through the #fluid-work channel on IRC.