Fwd: [MegaDots-Nemeth] Aaron Leventhal wins 2007 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award

From: David Andrews (dandrews@visi.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 17:41:10 PDT


>
>>>> caryn@duxsys.com 7/27/2007 3:28 PM >>>
>
>We send our warmest congratulations to Aaron Leventhal, who has
>just won a
>2007 Google-O'Reilly Open Source award for his outstanding web
>accessibility
>work. If you've been using MegaDots for a long time, you probably
>know who
>Aaron Leventhal is. If not, in MegaDots, go to Help menu - About
>MegaDots.
>Aaron was
>the key designer and developer on the MegaDots team from 1990
>through 2000.
>We're so proud of Aaron, who was twenty years old when he started
>working on
>MegaDots!
>
>Below are some links and information about this wonderful award for
>Aaron.
>
>http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/oscon_open_sour_1.html
>
>OSCON: Open Source Awards 2007
>
>. Aaron Leventhal
>
>- Best Accessibility Architect Aaron Leventhal is a long-time
>supporter of
>accessibility efforts. Earlier in his career he worked on a Braille
>
>publishing system used by teachers, publishers and individual
>Braille
>readers. He later joined Netscape as accessibility architect for
>Mozilla
>development, and has been involved with the
>
>http://www.mozilla.org/access/
>
>Mozilla project almost since its beginnings. Aaron has
>single-handedly
>succeeded in turning Firefox from
>being an also-ran in web accessibility to being the preferred
>accessibility
>solution going forward.
>
>With thanks to Aaron and best wishes for his continuing work,
>Caryn Navy and David Holladay
>Duxbury Systems



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