Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:16:25AM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> This is just not true.  The Yelp you get from gnome.org is
> based on Gecko.  There is an experimental webkit branch in
> git.  There have never been any releases from that branch.
> Despite this, Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) decided to roll
> their own WebKit-based Yelp releases.
> 
> I take accessibility very seriously.  I've had conversations
> with Willie about how we can further improve Yelp for people
> using accessible tools.  We've talked about the accessibility
> impact of our new help format, Mallard.  And I've had lots of
> conversations with various people about producing better help
> about accessibility.
> 
> If there's more I can do, please let me know.  But I'm one of
> the developers that's firmly committed to accessibility, and
> I'm a bit tired of being made out as the bad guy just because
> Debian doesn't follow my releases.
> 
> --
> Shaun
> 

Would you mind posting a comment to:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571121

I tried to make this bug critical, but it was downgraded.
Hopefully, we can convince Debian to go back to upstream before code freeze.

Thanks.
          Kenny