On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sri, > > It's a risky strategy - from what I can tell our accessibility story has > regressed since 2.32. Do we have an action plan to get back to where we > were before? I have been getting the impression that accessibility wasn't a > top priority for some of the teams driving GNOME 3. > OK, that's good to know. I'm not sure how much it has regressed, but hopefully someone can chime in on it. > > If we really do have a good accessibility story, and legitimate gripes > with the linux.com story, then it sounds like it's worth a shot. > > Well, the other angle is that yes it has regressed, but we need people to help or help us fund it. So, I'm hoping that it translates to some investments in FoG. sri > Cheers, > Dave. > > > On 02/22/2012 07:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > >> I sent this to Karen, and I would like to get a wider feedback on this >> course of action. >> >> When dealing with the press there is always a bit of a risk especially >> if you're trying to manipulate them :) >> >> sri >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *Sriram Ramkrishna* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:49 PM >> Subject: Idea on linux.com <http://linux.com> article on a11y >> To: Karen Sandler <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Cc: Juanjo Marín <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]** >> >> >> >> >> I was talking with Juanjo today and came up with an idea. I'm wondering >> if this is something you would support: >> >> Create a rebuttal article to the Linux.com article which bemoans the >> lack of good a11y. By stating in fact that we are in fact have great >> a11y support thanks to the efforts of the GNOME foundation and >> contributors. We can either make it another Linux.com article or we >> could generate our own news.gnome.org <http://news.gnome.org> or >> >> something. The idea is to create a conversation of viewpoints. But >> more importantly, to try to attract third party media who love these >> kind of controversies. We get several benefits, linux.com >> <http://linux.com>'s gets a higher media exposure and as well we do. We >> >> would hopefully create an effect of having media focus on a11y >> technologies in Linux or maybe in general. >> >> Basically, create a meme with some media manipulation. >> >> What do you think? >> >> sri >> >> > -- > Dave Neary > GNOME Foundation member > [email protected] > Jabber: [email protected] > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/marketing-list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list> >
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