As my mate Alejandro said back in June, next week the 1st AEGIS international conference will take place in Seville, Spain, and there I’ll be attending, together with him, the GNOME Accessibility Hackfest that is planned to happen there as a parallel event to the conference (see AEGIS web page or GNOME live wiki, for more details).

As for me, this is the first time I attend to an a11y-related hackfest and I must said I’m quite excited about it, as been there should be the perfect scenario to work hard on moving things forward related to a11y support in the WebKitGTK platform, which has been what I’ve been working on most of the time during the last months here in Igalia, as part of our WebKit team.

On top of that, this is also going for me the first time I’ll meet in real life some people I usually work with in a regular basis since I started working on a11y-related stuff in WebKitGTK, such as the always helpful Joanmarie Diggs, who patiently answers all my doubts about those bugs blocking ORCA support, for instance.

Because of all this, I have great expectations about this hackfest, both as a personal experience (from the most selfish point of view you can imagine) and as a great boost to all the work being currently done to improve GNOME as an accessible platform towards the GNOME 3.0 release.

Can’t wait!