Let's please not judge the value of Dasher, or any a11y package by number of users. This is a seriously slippery slope. By this reckoning a11y may as well go back into the closet. By definition, a11y is about edge cases, minimal user numbers, etc., etc. Else there would be no need for exception casing, because all applications would be tailored at screen readers, or at nonmouse input.
A11y needs to be in the default package mix because it meets policy objectives, not because it is used by a majority of users. At the moment that includes Orca, Gok, and Dasher plus their dependencies. Janina Samuel Thibault writes: > Steve Lee, le Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:57:04 +0000, a écrit : > > On 19/03/2008, Bryen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is Dasher a useful tool that is still needed as part of a distro's > > > default install? > > > > Is there any way we can get an idea of numbers of users? > > In Debian's popcon.debian.org, among 64688 votes, dasher was > voted 363 times. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Foundation http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
