Luis: We (meaning the Evolution development team) care just as much as you do about making Gnome accessible.
Please, rest assured that our intentions are to work within the established accessibility guidelines (and the Human Interface Guidelines) to make sure that Evolution is usable by everyone. Perhaps it would be helpful to try to keep in mind that the screenshot you saw is just a sketch made by Tuomas to feel out an idea. It is certainly not meant as a final, immutable solution. It would be a pity if you read it as such. We have to start somewhere, and I am confident that starting with Tuomas' idea is sound. On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:43, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 08:57, Luis Villa wrote: > Do you have any suggestions for fixing this? > > >From a screen reader standpoint, it shouldn't matter since we can put > the name of the calendar in the extra A11Y fields. Information about how the Gnome Accessibility framework functions is available online: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/GNOME-Accessibility.html is a good place to start. The upshot of this information is that it is possible to associate an accessibility-specific name and description with each widget. This allows people who use screenreaders to hear some data about each widget they interact with. (These are the extra a11y fields that Ettore is alluding to above.) Further, we have been working closely with Sun hackers from China to make Evolution more accessible. Their experience with using the atk framework will definitely help us to solve this problem. > For color-blind people, I am not sure... We can make sure the stock > colors have a reasonable amount of contrast differences and allow the > user to configure different colors. But I don't think we can use icons > or other ways of identification, because they would make the UI ugly > and/or more complicated. Don't write off the possibility of adding the calendar name to each event, or to using icons to differentiate between calendars. Your fear about the ugliness or added complication of using labels/icons to this end seems unfounded to me, Ettore. At the very least, we should give Tuomas a chance to think about this possibility and try to work it into his design. If adding a label which tells you which calendar a given event belongs to is this is the right thing to do for accessibility, then we'll do it. On another note, you (as a QA person) should appreciate the value of meticulous software testing, Luis. It should go without saying that new designs like this will be anaylzed in our usability lab once we have a skeleton of them in place. Further, thanks to Wipro's efforts, we now have a plan for how to test Gnome applications for accessibility-- see http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/testing/index.html . Finally, we also have multiple colorblind developers here at Ximian, who are willing to help us find a good solution to this problem. So, yeah. Please have faith. Anna -- Anna Marie Dirks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
