On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Mario Lang <ml...@delysid.org> wrote: > Hi. > > To make a rather complicated and long story short: Accessibility of > graphical user interfaces in Debian has taken a slight step backward > with the GNOME 3 rewrite. Squeeze was more stable regarding this. [snip]
Slightly off-topic, but since you bring up GNOME 3 as a specific example of how Debian has regressed in terms of accessibility...how exactly has GNOME regressed? It still has AFAIK the same set of accessibility features [1] as it did previously with GNOME 2, and it is easily accessibly via an icon on the top bar of the shell (you can't even get rid of it without an extension), and the gnome-accessibility package is pulled in by a number of other gnome meta-packages in Debian. Admittedly I myself don't use any of those features, but I'm curious to know why you consider GNOME 3 not as accessible as GNOME 2 was (i.e. are they any specific features dropped in GNOME 3)? If this is about the fact that upstream has dropped support for non 3d-accelerated machines for use with GNOME, well, I don't think there's much that can be done about it. We can't force upstream to care about old hardware, after all. I disagree with the notion that being accessible means supporting old hardware. FWIW, Linux kernel 3.8 dropped support for i386, so the next stable Debian release is going to be even less "accessible" for users of ancient hardware. Regards, Vincent [1] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACZd_tBZu4C0iQ3a0QwN=OyY0V=seUmkXkUxR=OEt31=9d9...@mail.gmail.com
