Joanmarie, nice to meet you, and thanks for getting in touch!
We haven't thought too much about accessibility in Geary so far, but I fully agree that it would be great to make Geary accessible from the very start. So thanks a lot for the patches - Jim (the Geary tech lead) will review them soon. 5 of us from Yorba will be at GUADEC next week so yes, let's certainly meet there. Also, I think at least a couple of us should be able to stop by A11yCamp on the first day at least. Looking forward to meeting in person soon! Cheers - adam On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <[email protected]> wrote: Hey Geary folks! I'm Joanie (Orca screen reader project lead), and I am psyched to see that we have a new email client for GNOME in the works. Thunderbird and Evolution are each bloated -- not to mention broken with respect to Accessibility. :( Geary may prove to be just what the doctor ordered. :) I am further psyched that you are still early on in the initial development phases because it is way easier to get accessibility correct along the way than it is to try to sort out brokenness in a feature-complete module. I began taking a look at Geary (from master) with Orca. There are some bugs / tweaks I need to address in Orca so that it does a better job of presenting Geary to users. I'll do those Orca fixes very soon. There are also some bugs / tweaks you need to make in Geary so that Orca can do its job. I'll report these as I find them -- and when time permits, I'll also try to fix them for you. Yes I'm *that* motivated to have an accessible email client for Orca users. ;) With respect to your issues, a couple of "biggies" (but with small / simple patches which solve the problem) can be found here: * http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5555 * http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5556 If someone has time for code review and feedback, it would be doubleplusawesome. (Thanks in advance!) Lastly, Piñeiro (GNOME Accessibility Team lead) and I would love to meet with you all at GUADEC to talk further about Geary Accessibility. And we'd be honored if you could join us at "A11yCamp" during the GUADEC BoF/hackfest days. Details can be found here. [1] Of particular interest to you might be the first day: The head of the GNOME Bugsquad will be there that day and we're planning to have a crash course for him in Accessibility Testing. The sorts of things he and his team need to know, and the sorts of things developers of a cool new email client need to know, are in many cases the same. :) We look forward to hearing from you. Take care. --joanie [1] https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/BoFs/A11yCamp2012 _______________________________________________ Geary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary
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