open source project funded by Mellon
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.

community source
international project partners
international community members

work stretches from policy to practice to implementation to dissemination and inculcation

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On the policy end -- Jutta's efforts to advocate and promote a11y standards and concerns has inspired our work and created an opportunity for our work to stand out as a solution.

On the practice end -- all of our work is built with usability and a11y in mind.  We are continually iterating to improve our products to make them usable from screen readers to graceful degradation on browsers, etc.
browser compatibility
graceful degradation
take on the hard problems:
	do the things that typically get done last, first
	testing testing testing in design stage before there is a product
	design for everyone
	focus on adaptive usability
	this includes accessibility for everyone
	runtime reconfigurability based on user preferences/needs

On the implementation end -- we work with communities to incorporate our solutions into their own work.  Some examples:  Sakai, uPortal, museums, web applications, developers, etc.

On dissemination -- our products are all open source and available to all.  We are a software development project that values and promotes documentation, teaching, mentoring, etc.

On inculcation -- we work with ppl. to teach them how to write better code that leads to more usable and more accessible solutions.  We teach user centred design principles to try to promote that which is often an afterthought.
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create a solution -- the code
teach others how to do it themselves -- the Design Handbook
give them the tools for doing it easily -- the Framework	
help integrate our solutions into others' work -- the only way we know we've succeeded

we are mentoring some of the brightest and best who are joining our community and learning how to address a11y concerns in their work as a built in expectation and requirement both design and development.