Hi all, using this mail to answer everybody. On 02/22/2012 11:59 PM, Juanjo Marín wrote: > > > > ----- Mensaje original ----- >> De: Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> >> Para: marketing-list@gnome.org >> CC: >> Enviado: Miércoles 22 de febrero de 2012 21:56 >> Asunto: Re: Fwd: Idea on linux.com article on a11y >> >> 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.
I agree that this is a risky strategy, but not only due the regressions that we had. As far as I understood the original mail, the idea is create some kind of noise based on create a controversy. This conclusion based on this comment from Sri "But more importantly, to try to attract third party media who love these kind of controversies". If I need to say something, and this create a controversy, it is just a collateral effect. But I don't like the idea of create controversies just for the sake of create a controversy. >> >> 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. >> > Hi ! > > The transition to GNOME 3.0 was at the same time that Oracle adquired > Sun and dismatled the Accessibility Program Office that was one of the > main contributors to GNOME a11y so far. > > The GNOME a11y team has been reorganizing and new members have > landed in the team to tackle the daunting transition to GNOME 3, specially > because a11y relayed in bonobo that was going to be dropped in GNOME > 3 and it had to be re-written using D-bus, not to mention the other details > to be migrated. > > GNOME 3.2 is the first release of the the GNOME 3 series that can be > stated as accessible, though it has some glitches. GNOME 3.4 looks > very promising. > > So there was a regression, but we are in general terms close to the > same level again (orca seems more performant than ever in the current > development cycle, gnome magnification works great now with new > features around the corner, the on-screen keyboard it's built using a > promising Caribou tech with a11y features , etc... and other > applications like dots needs some work to be working again or > gnome-voice was dropped). > > Also, GNOME a11y technologies are being used in other free desktops, > like Xfce, Unity and KDE. So I think GNOME has an important leading > role in terms of accessibility. > > However, the resources in accessibility are less than in the past, and we > need more resources to keep the pace for adding new features and > maintaining what we have. This is a good summary. Thanks. BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list