Re: a11y-devel-guide related discussion

Ekaterina Gerasimova <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.documentation
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On 17 April 2015 at 11:27, Ekaterina Gerasimova <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 19 March 2015 at 13:52, Paul W. Frields <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello, GNOME Docs folks!  There was an interesting thread on the
>> Fedora desktop list recently started by a visually impaired user.  It
>> started with a long rant about issues with a11y (note, it's quite
>> long, but thankfully is pretty mild by most standards):
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-March/011714.html
>>
>> The next day the same user came back and apologized and also pointed
>> out many good things about a11y especially in GNOME (again, pretty
>> long):
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-March/011716.html
>>
>> This note led to a further discussion about contribution, and one of
>> the areas that came up was the GNOME accessibility-devel-guide:
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-March/011719.html
>>
>> I brought this topic to GNOME Docs to see if this guide is actively
>> maintained in this team, or whether I should contact someone else (or
>> simply file this as a RFE/bug).  Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> It is not actively maintained at the moment.

Hmm, a better way to put it would have been that it's not being
actively developed…

> If there is someone willing to work on it, it is worth considering how
> much of it would be changed. If the answer is "most of it", then a
> re-write from scratch under a more modern license (CC-by-SA 4.0) would
> be best because we don't (and, to be honest, can't really) comply with
> the GFDL.
>
> On the other hand, patches are welcome for minor improvements.
>
>
> Thanks
> Kat
>
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