Re: yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 23 août 2009 à 11:54 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : So...I'd like to appeal to the yelp developers to keep the accessible solution turned on by default for 2.28 while we continue our work towards WebKit a11y for GNOME 3.0. Let me warn you that downstream, we are getting short

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-26 Thread Willie Walker
that accessibility is a core value of GNOME. Until WebKit a11y is sufficient to provide access to the GNOME apps that will use it, I think we need to stick with the accessible solution for now. In other words, I think we need to flip your statement above around. That is, the GNOME modules will ship

Re: yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-24 Thread Willie Walker
developers to keep the accessible solution turned on by default for 2.28 while we continue our work towards WebKit a11y for GNOME 3.0. Done. Yelp 2.28 will use Gecko. Willie, I have a number of documentation-related things I'd like to discuss with some accessibility experts. Two things come

yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-23 Thread Willie Walker
is a critical component of the GNOME platform. So...I'd like to appeal to the yelp developers to keep the accessible solution turned on by default for 2.28 while we continue our work towards WebKit a11y for GNOME 3.0. Will On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 23:22 +0100, Olivier Le Thanh Duong wrote: On Thu, Aug 20

Re: yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-23 Thread Shaun McCance
to the platforms they came from. In other words, access to documentation is a critical component of the GNOME platform. So...I'd like to appeal to the yelp developers to keep the accessible solution turned on by default for 2.28 while we continue our work towards WebKit a11y for GNOME 3.0. Done. Yelp

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-22 Thread Olivier Le Thanh Duong
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 08:40 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker: Which projects are going to use it According to the jhbuild 2.28 moduleset: devhelp, epiphany, seed, yelp. And under suggests (no hard dependency): anjuta

Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I'm trying to assess the impact WebKit a11y is going to have on GNOME in 2.28. Which projects are going to use it and will there be alternatives for people to use Gecko-based technology if WebKit a11y isn't quite soup yet for 2.28? Note that this is not a slam on the very hard

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 08:40 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker: Which projects are going to use it According to the jhbuild 2.28 moduleset: devhelp, epiphany, seed, yelp. And under suggests (no hard dependency): anjuta (for devhelp plugin), empathy. and will there be alternatives for people

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:27 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 08:40 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker: Which projects are going to use it According to the jhbuild 2.28 moduleset: devhelp, epiphany, seed, yelp. Hi there. Yelp maintainer here. Who exactly decided to use

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hey, On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:21 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Yelp will not be using WebKit for 2.28, but it will almost certainly use it for 2.30/3.0, unless there are serious problems we can't iron out. That includes accessibility issues. Please keep us posted. Is there any specific

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
I'll leave it to the Yelp maintainer to answer that question. But FWIW, it took (what felt like) quite a while to have accessible help for the GNOME desktop -- a topic which was regularly raised on the Orca users list. Now we have it. I think it would be a shame to take this valuable tool away

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:44 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Hey, On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:21 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: Yelp will not be using WebKit for 2.28, but it will almost certainly use it for 2.30/3.0, unless there are serious problems we can't iron out. That includes

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 09:42 -0500 schrieb Shaun McCance: On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:27 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: According to the jhbuild 2.28 moduleset: devhelp, epiphany, seed, yelp. Hi there. Yelp maintainer here. Who exactly decided to use the webkit branch in that

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Frederic Peters
Shaun McCance wrote: This means that anybody running 2.27.x from jhbuild has been unable to use the new Mallard stuff, which is the single most noteworthy thing in Yelp 2.28. The modulesets were using webkit for a while, as it was the easiest way to get webkit support exposed, but switched

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 09:50 -0500 schrieb Shaun McCance: I was busy working on Mallard support for 2.28, and didn't have time (or make time) to review the WebKit stuff. And now I consider it to be way too late in the release cycle for this kind of change. I agree it's late in the

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:50 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: I was busy working on Mallard support for 2.28, and didn't have time (or make time) to review the WebKit stuff. And now I consider it to be way too late in the release cycle for this kind of change. I can easily agree with that

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:29 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 09:50 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit : Is there any specific reasons why it will not use WebKit for 2.28? I understand we have little time for real world testing, but it would be useful to understand whether

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lee
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: 4) Accessibility. This is only implemented in the Mac port currently. We are moving the core accessibility code to be cross-platform, which should make it fairly straightforward to hook it up to ATK or other accessibility APIs. Sometimes ARIA is mentioned

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lee
Do I remember plans to have a directory of accessible web apps? Did it ever happen? Steve -- Steve Lee -- Open Source Assistive Technology Software web: fullmeasure.co.uk blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread Joseph Scheuhammer
1. Using DHTML to create desktop UI's is here, today, now. It has become very popular. Nonetheless, it is inaccessible because the semantics of the markup is either wrong or neutral with respect to the UI it is encoding. A specific example is where a div element can be a menu, a menu item,

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread Victor Tsaran
. ARIA is becoming a major component in any accessible web application. It's not something in the distant future. It would be premature to crown webkit as the GNOME engine for all purposes until this is properly addressed. Nonetheless, for basic document viewing, like Yelp, Webkit could be a good

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread Aaron Leventhal
I agree about the strong a11y foundation being the necessary start, but WebKit might save work down the road by planning for ARIA now. Victor, I don't understand your comment about the UI interaction model. I think that affects things on the AT end but not so much how ARIA is exposed via

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread T.V Raman
We inject the ARIA markup and other enhancements as needed from the core Reader product. Most of these attributes are added at runtime, not in static markup, since Reader is a very dynamic Web Application -- it's *not* a document. Also, in general, we will only emit ARIA markup to clients that

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread Willie Walker
. It's not something in the distant future. It would be premature to crown webkit as the GNOME engine for all purposes until this is properly addressed. Nonetheless, for basic document viewing, like Yelp, Webkit could be a good solution, providing it has accessible structured document support

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread David Bolter
Hi Maciej, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: Hi Maciej, Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief comment about your accessibility section below: This wording Sometimes

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:14 AM, David Bolter wrote: Hi Maciej, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: Hi Maciej, Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief comment about your accessibility section below: This wording Sometimes

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:51 PM, T.V Raman wrote: We inject the ARIA markup and other enhancements as needed from the core Reader product. Most of these attributes are added at runtime, not in static markup, since Reader is a very dynamic Web Application -- it's *not* a document. Also, in

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-01 Thread David Bolter
Hi Maciej, Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief comment about your accessibility section below: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Hello GNOMErs, Some of you may remember me from back in my GNOME development days. These days I work on WebKit, an open source Web content

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-01 Thread Eitan Isaacson
agree with David. ARIA is becoming a major component in any accessible web application. It's not something in the distant future. It would be premature to crown webkit as the GNOME engine for all purposes until this is properly addressed. Nonetheless, for basic document viewing, like Yelp, Webkit

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-01 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: Hi Maciej, Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief comment about your accessibility section below: This wording Sometimes ARIA is mentioned in the context of