Day two.  Started with an interesting talk about Javascript and accessibility.  There is some pretty cool work coming out of the University of Toronto.  I was unaware of the Accessible Rich Internet Applicatios (ARIA) specification.  (more information from Mozilla).  Very interesting and effective specs to make javascript accessible.  Their specific work at the moment focuses on Dojo, and I have to say… Dojo, at least the widget models they use, are pretty darn impressive.  Note to self: investigate Dojo more.  Rich text editor looks great too.  The folks at jQuery are onboard also, but I don’t get the impression they are as far along yet.  ARIA has pretty good support in Firefox and Opera.  No word from MS or Apple that I could find.  Great hour, great info.

Next hour sucked.  Why is it that fires always start on Friday mornings?  Anyhow, took an hour, got a bunch of fires put out, got some ExpressionEngine work done, and was ready to go by 11 to listen to a pretty fun discussion of the history of Open Source - aimed at the idea of “learn from your damn mistakes man!”.  Made everyone in the lecture hall think.

Now its lunch, and I’m off to each veggie sandwiches.

update:  The ARIA presentation was by Simon Bates and David Bolter.  I wish now that I had given them credit originally in this posting.  Great job by those two.  Anyhow, Simon has graciously posted his presentation and source code online at http://bitstructures.com/2007/10/fsoss2007-accessible-dhtml for those interested.