I certainly didn't mean to attempt to minimize the importance of Dasher with numerical values. I only meant to inquire whether it was still a viable tool to be used. In my opinion, all it takes is just one a11y user to say "Yes I need it." to make it part of the default installation.
Bryen On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:09 -0400, David Bolter wrote: > Thanks Janina. Excellent point. And it is at the edges where innovation > often happens. > > For the record, my concern about knowing the number of GOK users is that > if there are resource decisions to be made that might impact them, it > would be good to know the potential damage. It worries me that I don't > have enough resources to give GOK the attention it deserves. > > That said I'm looking to mentor someone for a (co)maintainer role... > > cheers, > David > > Janina Sajka wrote: > > 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 > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
