Re: GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

Brian Cameron <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.devel,gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bill:

On 12/25/11 12:11 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
> Since you bring it up, let's talk about it.  There has not been a
> single accessibility bug reported by the community that was closed by
> the GTK+ team in two years.  The calender doesn't talk, and neither do
> most images, regardless of the dedication of the original programmer.
> I submit but reports with patches to GTK+, and I am among many who are
> ignored.  Shall we get into specific bug reports still outstanding?
> Shall we compare them to outstanding projects like Orca?

It would be very useful to put together a report of critical
outstanding accessibility bugs.  While there are clearly many issues
with GTK+, there are also serious issues in other areas to consider
(such as in the CORBA->D-Bus conversion).  Raising awareness of
particular serious issues as the FoG accessibility campaign is starting
is helpful.

Brian


> On 12/25/11, Jason White<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Bill Cox<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>> So, how do we separate the groups that deserve accessibility funding
>>> under Gnome from those who seem hell bent on making life painful for
>>> the blind?
>>
>> I don't think this is either a helpful or productive question to ask, and I
>> doubt very much that there are people associated with Gnome who fall into
>> the
>> category presupposed by the question.
>>
>> If you have money that you want to put on the table, and if you're
>> uncomfortable donating it to Gnome, you can for example offer it as a bounty
>> for the completion of certain development tasks. Some software projects
>> accept
>> financial contributions under such conditions.
>>
>> If you don't have money to contribute, then I'm sure those working on ATK,
>> AT-SPI, Orca and associated projects would welcome bug reports, patches
>> or documentation.
>>
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