Hello,

Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 07:51:32 -0800, a ecrit:
> I recently wrote the following note to debian-...@lists.debian.org:
> 
> > The Debian "List of sections" pages (eg, 
> > https://packages.debian.org/stable) have no section for accessibility.  
> > Please consider adding one, listing such packages as BRLTTY, Emacspeak, and 
> > Orca.  If it helps, I'd be happy to help in assembling a starting point for 
> > the package list.
> 
> In response, I received the following suggestions from Paul Wise:
> 
> > I believe that this list is based on the list of sections defined in
> > the Debian archive:
> > 
> > https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/blob/master/setup/core-init.d/020_sections
> 
> This seems quite plausible, looking at the file.
> 
> > Please discuss that with the accessibility team:
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility-devel
> 
> I assume that this list is the right place to start doing that.

Yes.

> > I think the needed action here is to report some bugs:
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> > 
> > One against ftp.debian.org asking to create the section.
> > 
> > One against ftp.debian.org asking to override the section for the
> > relevant packages.
> > 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/ftp.debian.org
> > 
> > One against each of the relevant packages asking to update the section.
> > 
> > One against www.debian.org (usertagged for packages.debian.org) asking
> > to add the accessibility section description.
> 
> Before I start filing bug reports, I'd like to find out if folks here are in 
> favor of this idea and perhaps enlist some assistance in making it happen.  
> Hence this note...

Actually, we already had this idea in the past :)

See the "Accessibility archive section?" section of 
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility-devel
(probably there are more to put there nowadays)

I don't remember any reason for not proceeding with it (except lack of
time)

Samuel

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