From: Francesco Fumanti <francesco.fuma...@gmx.net> > These two paragraphs make me wonder the following: > > - Is there any contact between the GNOME A11y Team and the GNOME Shell > developers? > > - Do the GNOME Shell developers know what properties have to be present > in the GNOME Shell to make it support a11y? As apparently, the GNOME > Shell is still a moving target, the sooner the GNOME Shell developers > know what to take care of, the better it will be for everybody; not only > for the disabled people requiring assistive tools, but probably also for > the GNOME Shell itself to have the best chances to become a widely used > desktop. (Is a11y not a requirement under specific circumstances to be > even accepted as a candidate for a computer system!?)
Take a look to this two mails in the gnome-shell mailing list: * http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2009-November/msg00009.html A general description from Owen Taylor (one of the main gnome-shell developers) about gnome-shell current status , with a paragraph related to the accessibility. * http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2009-November/msg00018.html A answer to the previous mail, explaining the current plans for the development of Cally (Clutter accessibility library). > Consequently, if it makes sense, maybe somebody with the required > knowledge should contact the GNOME Shell developers to talk directly > with them about the a11y in the GNOME Shell and if appropriate, inform > them about the properties they should take into account during the > development, or the rest of the development. And by these properties I > don't mean general guidelines, but very concrete points like complete > keyboard navigation, complete pointer navigation, specific > interfaces,... (Please, be aware that I don't really know what the > necessary properties are; the three points that I gave in the preceding > sentence are only guesses.) Work in process (AFAIK) ... === API (apinhe...@igalia.com) _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
