Re: Re: Request for GNOME2.8 inclusion: Cantus 3

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Kjartan said:

> A couple of general things we'd like to see before any apps are proposed
> for inclusion in the desktop are:
>
> - contact the documentation project and review any documentation that
> the app has - if it has none I think that should be a priority before
> even proposing the app
>
> - contact the translation project and get a review of the app's state
> wrt internationalization - any app proposed should be fully
> internationalized and use intltool for .desktop, .schemas etc
>
> - do a ui-review of the app and check strings to see if the language
> used is in line with the terminology guidelines
>
> - check the app for compliance with the HIG
>
> These are all general tasks that I personally think should be part of
> the preparation to propose apps for inclusion in the desktop (and libs
> into the platform as well I guess)
>  
I'd like to add:

- Consult "GNOME Accessibility for Developers" and check the application 
against the checklist;
- confirm that the application offers full keyboard navigation
- make sure that Atk implementations are available for all custom widgets
- check the application with "at-poke" and assess the functionality of 
its accessibility implementation
- consult with the accessibility team on any additional issues

An increasing amount of the accessibility engineering effort is going 
into regression control and accessibility of new components, and we 
cannot continue to improve accessibility without the assistance of 
component and application developers.  Like internationalization, 
accessibility needs to be a shared responsibility; in fact accessibility 
support probably needs to be considered even earlier in the application 
development cycle than internationalization for most apps.

best regards

Bill