Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Christian: As you say, it would be better to make stronger release team a11y requirements. I think it would be easier to define such requirements once accessibility is working reasonably in GNOME 3. We have made a lot of progress already, so hopefully this will not be so far in the future. cd

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Brian Cameron
Bill: On 01/ 6/12 07:24 PM, Bill Cox wrote: I agree that the Gnome Foundation gives a11y high priority. My main issues in the past have been that the GTK+ team gives it zero priority, at least when a bug is reported by the community. Padraig O'Briain was the fellow at Sun who did a great de

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Alejnandro. GdkPixbuf is used in cell renderers, which draw cells in tables, lists, and trees. They are used as GUI objects, even if they were not originally intended to be. They are displayed by many programs, usually as status indicators in lists, such as stars for popularity, green check

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Piñeiro
On 01/07/2012 03:26 PM, Christian Hofstader wrote: >> cox: In my opinion, the separation of responsibilities is the main reason >> for lack of a11y progress in GTK. If any of the wonderful people >> working on a11y that we are both fans of were able to commit patches >> to GTK, the issues would h

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-09 Thread Piñeiro
On 01/06/2012 04:55 PM, Christian Hofstader wrote: > "Sometimes accessibility lags behind…" is an accurate statement. My question > is why Gnome Foundation would consider a11y issues to have a priority lower > than any other feature of the software. By permitting a11y to "lag behind" > other fe

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-08 Thread Juanjo Marín
- Mensaje original - > De: Jason White > > I think the Gnome accessibility community has a good grasp of the technical > issues that have to be addressed, including the lack of appropriate > documentation for desktop and application developers as to how to implement > accessibility int

Re: Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-07 Thread Bill Cox
On 1/7/12, Mats Lundälv wrote: > The main show-stopper for suggesting free systems > in general, including Gnome based systems, is the lack of easily available > and well functioning TTS reading support for seing users with a reading > imparment - the by far largest area of a11y needs. I happen t

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-07 Thread Jason White
Christian Hofstader wrote: > cdh: The Gnome a11y issues for people with vision impairment in the 2.xx > releases are many, especially when compared to what users enjoy with JAWS or > VoiceOver. These issues, though, are not all based in Gnome itself, rather, > across the ecosystem of OS, UI, app,

Ang: Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-07 Thread Mats Lundälv
Hi, I'd just want to express my opinion about this being a very important discussion, and to reinforce what Christian says about the problem with promoting free systems with major a11y shortcomings for public use. Here we hear about the remaining difficulties for VI screenreader users, though this

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-07 Thread Christian Hofstader
> > cox: In my opinion, the separation of responsibilities is the main reason > for lack of a11y progress in GTK. If any of the wonderful people > working on a11y that we are both fans of were able to commit patches > to GTK, the issues would have been resolved years ago. > cdh: Can Brian or so

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-07 Thread Christian Hofstader
> > As you say, it would be better to make stronger release team a11y > requirements. I think it would be easier to define such requirements > once accessibility is working reasonably in GNOME 3. We have made a > lot of progress already, so hopefully this will not be so far in the > future. > c

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Chris. One of the reasons I often make an ass of myself, other than having no clue about human emotions, is I write emails like this after drinking on Friday night. So... I agree that the Gnome Foundation gives a11y high priority. My main issues in the past have been that the GTK+ team give

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-06 Thread Brian Cameron
Christian: On 01/ 6/12 09:55 AM, Christian Hofstader wrote: "Sometimes accessibility lags behind…" is an accurate statement. My question is why Gnome Foundation would consider a11y issues to have a priority lower than any other feature of the software. By permitting a11y to "lag behind" other

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-06 Thread Christian Hofstader
"Sometimes accessibility lags behind…" is an accurate statement. My question is why Gnome Foundation would consider a11y issues to have a priority lower than any other feature of the software. By permitting a11y to "lag behind" other features, it is effectively put on the back burner and will r

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-03 Thread Brian Cameron
Bill: On 12/25/11 12:11 AM, Bill Cox wrote: Since you bring it up, let's talk about it. There has not been a single accessibility bug reported by the community that was closed by the GTK+ team in two years. The calender doesn't talk, and neither do most images, regardless of the dedication of

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2012-01-03 Thread Brian Cameron
Bill: It is important to raise visibility for certain accessibility issues that are causing real users problems. I really do understand how frustrating it can be when software just does not work properly. This clearly creates very serious issues for users who depend on features like accessibil

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Bill Cox wrote: > Since you bring it up, let's talk about it.  There has not been a > single accessibility bug reported by the community that was closed by > the GTK+ team in two years.  The calender doesn't talk, and neither do > most images, regardless of the ded

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-25 Thread juanjomarin96
Bill, the money will be spend in accessibility works, so What's the problem ? Don't you trust in the accessibility team ? And yes, there are lot of bugs opened. The resources are also limited and GTK has being involved in big changes from version 2 to version 3 with big time constraints. And, as

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-24 Thread Jason White
Bill Cox wrote: > Since you bring it up, let's talk about it. There has not been a > single accessibility bug reported by the community that was closed by > the GTK+ team in two years. The calender doesn't talk, and neither do > most images, regardless of the dedication of the original programme

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-24 Thread Bill Cox
Since you bring it up, let's talk about it. There has not been a single accessibility bug reported by the community that was closed by the GTK+ team in two years. The calender doesn't talk, and neither do most images, regardless of the dedication of the original programmer. I submit but reports w

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-24 Thread Jason White
Bill Cox wrote: > So, how do we separate the groups that deserve accessibility funding > under Gnome from those who seem hell bent on making life painful for > the blind? I don't think this is either a helpful or productive question to ask, and I doubt very much that there are people associated

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-24 Thread Bill Cox
First of all, I'm a huge fan of people like Mike Gorse and Joanmarie. These people have undertaken the task of helping people like me without the motivation of losing their own vision. These are the people who I will go to bat for to help fund, to the extent that my limited abilities allow. On th

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-17 Thread Aline Bessa
Awesome news! 2011/12/16 Juanjo Marín > > Friday 16th dec, the GNOME Foundation announces a fundraising campaign [1] > to kick off 2012 as the Year of Accessibility for GNOME. > > GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project’s > inception. Because of this commitment, alo

Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Gorse
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Pixmaps should have accessible descriptions. The calendar should talk. Bugs should be filed. Developers should be pinged. Bill did file a bug for the first issue at least, if I'm remembering correctly. I suspect that part of the issue is that, i