Welcome. OpenDirective introduces developers of accessibility and assistive technology to the benefits and practices of collaboration through software open development. This enables the accelerated development of solutions meeting the needs of end users, their supporters, service providers and development companies. We facilitate open innovation through increased engagement with open source software projects. This helps companies innovate faster while being more cost efficient and also enables open source projects to become more sustainable. Our services cover software development through to community engagement and beyond.

We also organise open accessibility events with a difference. For example the recent and successful ATSummit where we brought together leaders from a wide range of accessibility companies and projects to initiate potential open development projects. This event was made possible at low cost to attendees through Mozilla providing use of their excellent London Space and The Paciello Group's generous sponsorship.

OpenDirective is led by Steve Lee, who, for many years, has actively participated in various open source and open accessibility communities that include The Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla, Outercurve Foundation, GNOME and Ubuntu. Some of Steve's early open AT projects can be found on the old http://fullmeasure.co.uk site.