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November 18, 2009:
The Fluid Project

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Boston-IA presented Jess Mitchell, Project Manager of The Fluid Project, speaking about making open source Rich Internet Application components for the Web accessible to people with disabilities— by designing them to be accessible throughout the design process.

Our venue sponsor for this event was The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center.

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Topic

On Wednesday, November 18, Jess Mitchell, Project Manager at The Fluid Project, gave a presentation called, "A Pervasive Approach to Building Accessible Web Solutions: The Fluid Project".

Fluid is a community, a product, and a collection of tools created by an international team. Fluid builds user interfaces, designs commonly used interactions, teaches others how to build good user-centered designs, and works with other software projects to integrate solutions into their applications. These components are designed with user-centered techniques, built for flexibility and customization, and are thoroughly accessible.

Fluid thinks good interfaces should be easy to use and easy to build.

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Speaker

Jess Mitchell is the Project Manager for Fluid (fluidproject.org)— a distributed community-source project— working closely with open source projects, museums, and cultural institutions to improve visitor and user experience. Jess works with a large team of distributed Fluid team members to produce accessible, high performance, clean, and nimble front-ends using new technologies for the web and beyond.

Jess has worked on a number of large, complex, distributed projects, bridging gaps and fostering innovation. Projects have ranged from building the Ghana Internet Exchange Point to serving as co-Project Manager on the Duke Digital Initiative (iPod project +), and co-teaching an open source project course with 4th year students at Duke University.

Fluid is a project of the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Venue Sponsor

The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center is a research and software innovation campus located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This campus is home to the following project teams:

• Microsoft Research New England
• Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)
• Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs
• Other product teams from across Microsoft

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