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Aaron Leventhal - Best Accessibility Architect

My friend and colleague, Aaron Leventhal, has just been honored by Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards for his tremendous work leading the Mozilla accessibility project. I'd like to quote their description of Aaron:

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 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.

In addition to his years of work in desktop accessibility and Braille transcription, and his more recent work on Mozilla accessibility in general, Aaron has been instrumental in bringing Mozilla Foundation grant funding to bear on accessibility issues - funding such good works as the Orca screen reader's support of Firefox, and most recently NVDA's support of Mozilla Gecko on Windows.

Congratulations Aaron for this very well deserved award! (2007-07-25 19:54:34.0) Permalink

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