Willie: This agenda looks good, but here are some things I'd like to see more focus on:
+ There are many a11y components, and it seems like not many people understand some of them. java-access-bridge, the registry daemon, etc. It would be nice to get an overview of how all the components fit together, and how to approach mapping a bug to the responsible component, and how to debug each component. + I think a *lot* of a11y bugs are really the same sort of problems that you see over and over again. Programs that do not have accessible labels for widgets, for example. Perhaps it would be useful to pick a few bugs that are examples of the common a11y bugs that exist and do an exercise where we demonstrate the bug (how to see that the bug exists), and then actually fix the bug. Probably lots of these kinds of bugs are simple 1-line fixes, and if we showed people that it is actually easy to identify and fix these sorts of bugs (if you know how), then perhaps we would find more community involvement in getting these sorts of issues addressed. I think it would be more useful to have two tracks instead of just one. One track for people interested in doing development in a11y and one for people interested in making their application(s) better support a11y. I think only people interested in doing active a11y development would be interested in current a11y gaps. Probably most people's time would be better spent helping to get them to understand how to get more involved with fixing existing bugs, and what they should be doing to make sure their applications are reasonably accessible. If we only do 1 track, I think we should minimze the time we spend talking about future pie-in-the-sky things when there is so much work to do just getting what already has been implemented to actually work. I think this is perhaps the most important thing, and isn't reflected at all in your 3-bullet breakdown of the day... > * What do we have? > * What do we need? > * How do we get there? Brian > After consideration of all the suggestions from the community (THANKS!), > I've put together a straw man agenda for the Accessibility Summit for > October 8, 2006, as part of the GNOME Boston 2006 Summit: > > http://live.gnome.org/Boston2006/AccessibilitySummit > > > The agenda is still up for discussion, so please send your comments. > > Thanks! > > Will > (Your happy chair) > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
