On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 09:38:36 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: [ Simon McVittie wrote: ] > > My understanding is that the a11y tag is intended to be for bugs that > > harm Debian's usefulness for people who rely on assistive technologies > > (screen readers, high contrast themes, etc.), and more generally, people > > who are not well-served by typical application developer assumptions as > > a result of disabilities or similar factors. The debian-accessibility > > mailing list is described on https://lists.debian.org/devel.html as > > "Making Debian more accessible to people with disabilities", and the > > a11y tag is shown on bugs.debian.org as a wheelchair symbol emoji, > > which supports that interpretation. > > > > However, reportbug describes the tag as: > > > > > 1 a11y This bug is relevant to the accessibility of the package. > > > > and I think a lot of non-technical users are interpreting this as "this > > bug makes it hard for *me personally* to use this package" - but if > > we used that interpretation, then it would apply to a lot of medium to > > high severity bugs in user-facing components like desktop environments, > > and the bugs that are particularly relevant to debian-accessibility > > subscribers would be lost in the noise. > > I sympathize with your request, but please first address the rewording > the the authoritative source of tags descriptions: > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags
Please could the BTS owners provide or approve a clearer wording for this, if they are the "owners" of the tag definition? In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007106#10, Samuel Thibault suggested "This bug is relevant to the accessibility of the package for disabled users." or "This bug affects disabled users." and in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007106#20, Cindy Sue Causey suggested "... affects people with disabilities." or "... affects users with disabilities." I would personally say "This bug particularly affects users with disabilities" if we're using a form of wording similar to that, because what we're interested in is whether a bug is *particularly* significant for users of accessibility technologies etc., rather than just any random bug that happens to have been encountered by a user with a disability. Thanks, smcv
