On 23 February 2010 17:21, Willie Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Education is key. Part of why I saw so much value in going to the GNOME > Usability Hackfest was to spread the word and get accessibility > considerations as close to the design as possible. It also needs to be > done in a positive way to make them want to take ownership of the space > versus us setting up a dependency relationship with them.
Looks like you've had success already. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/painless-accessibility-tips-for-gnome-designers-and-developers/ > In general, I think we want to create people that say "I *know* how to > make this accessible" versus "I think accessibility is important and I'm > going to ask the accessibility guys to fix this for me." Getting to the > latter, of course, is still a laudable achievement. :-) +1 We *want* to do ourselves out of a job. > In general, we need to continue the advocacy, and I think we need > advocates as close to the source of the solution as possible. So, > having an advocate on the release team can help give a stronger voice > that can help prevent accessibility problems from passing through > releases. +1 Steve _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
